Stories from Wednesday, October 22, 2014

A small group of library enthusiasts in Mountain Home are working to make the community a better place literally one book at a time. The Friends of the Library group does more than help foster people's enjoyment of reading, said Ed Sharp, who was named the group's new president earlier this month...

Mountain Home High School's Encore Company will present "The Wizard of Oz" at 7 p.m. Oct. 23-25 in the Lloyd Schiller Gymnasium. The play tells the story of Dorothy Gale from Kansas, who dreams of a better place "somewhere over the rainbow." After being struck unconscious during a tornado, Dorothy and her dog, Toto, are transported to the magical Land of Oz. ...

The Mountain Home News recently mailed a questionnaire to the candidates for the two Idaho House seats being contested in District 23, which includes all of Elmore County and parts of Owyhee and Twin Falls counties. Four of the five candidates responded...

Don and Christel Schmitz of Mountain Home will celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary with a cake and coffee event on Oct. 28 at 1 p.m., immediately following a no-host lunch at the South Fork Boise Senior Center in Pine (350 N. Pine-Featherville Rd.)...

The Elmore County Sheriff's Department are looking for leads to track down a local teenager who went missing Oct. 16. Melanie L. Kastner was last seen that morning at Mountain Home High School. Kastner has brown eyes and brown hair. She stands five feet, four inches, and weights 125 pounds...

Last week saw a change on leadership of Mountain Home Tigers football as Aaron Rodney stepped down as head coach. Both Rodney and district officials refused to comment on the situation, but it is believed Rodney had "lost the locker room" and team morale had plummeted over a season in which the Tigers had won only one game (and only one game last year as well)...