Stories from Wednesday, September 5, 2012

The 52nd annual Air Force Appreciation Day in Mountain Home -- the community's largest celebration -- kicks off this Saturday. The hugre event is designed to honor the men and women at Mountain Home Air Force Base and all others in the uniformed services of the United States...

Dear editor: As a long-time school bus driver I see a lot of things. Most people try to drive very safe-minded. But, as humans, we all make mistakes. But we strive to do better. As a school bus driver our number one thought is: "If you can't do it safely, don't do it!"...

Dear editor: I'd like to thank a number of folks and entities that supported the Mountain Home Fire Department during the Trinity Ridge Incident. The risk here is that I will leave someone out. For that I apologize up front and will do my best to acknowledge you separately:...

Charles and Dottie Olson of Mountain Home will celebrate their 60th wedding anniversary on Saturday, Sept. 15, with a reception from 2-4 p.m. at Carmela Vineyards in Glenns Ferry. The couple requests no gifts but asks that pictures from the past be brought to share a memory.The event will be hosted by their children, David and Rita Olson of Mountain Home, Clare and Karen Olson of Hill City, Mel and Roxane Olson of Whidbey Island, Wash., and Marie and Jason Zinke of Battle Ground, Wash...

In celebration of the 52nd anniversary of Air Force Appreciation Day, the Mountain Home News has published a special free souvenir magazine of AFAD. The magazine is available at the Mountain Home News office, 195 S. 3rd East St., at selected businesses throughout the community, and will be distributed at the Chamber of Commerce raffle booth and other booths in the park on Saturday, as well as the packets given during the year to all new airmen at the base...

Seeking to improve the safety of students traveling along one of the city's main traffic arteries, road crews recently have added new bike and shared travel lanes along a stretch of North 10th East Street. Two new bike lanes extend from East 8th North Street across from the city library and East Elementary School to American Legion Boulevard...

The Trinity Ridge Fire is slowly being brought under control. More than 60 percent of the fireline is now contained and most firefighting efforts are moving to more remote areas of the forest above Pine and Featherville. The evacuation order for residents from Featherville to Paradise was areas lifted Sunday...

Marthena Mitchell, 88, of King Hill passed away August 30, 2012. Funeral services will be held at 11:00AM, on Thursday, September 6, 2012, at the King Hill Community Presbyterian Church. Burial will follow at Glenn Rest Cemetery in Glenns Ferry. Arrangements are under the direction of Rost Funeral Home, McMurtrey Chapel in Mtn Home...

The road to Featherville is now open. The Elmore County Sheriff made the decision, in cooperation with the fire incident command, to reopen road to Featherville Thursday. The Boise National Forest also reduced the size of the closure area around the Trinity Ridge Fire, effective Thursday, Sept. 6. A map of the new closure area, is shown here (at left -- click to enlarge))...

Our home is not the same without our dog, who has been taken from Mtn View Reservoir on the Duck Valley Indian Reservation on July 8th, 2012. He was just 4 weeks old when we got him, free from someone at Walmart, so we called him "Wally". He's black with a white strip down the front of his head, shaped like the end of a arrow and white around the collar and down his front legs with a black dot on the top of his neck and four white paws, he's about a year and a half old. ...