Stories from Friday, July 24, 2015

Local physicians will offer free school sports physicals from 1 to 4 p.m. Aug. 6 at St. Luke's Clinic Trinity Mountain, located at 465 McKenna Drive in Mountain Home. Organized by St. Luke's Elmore Center for Community Health, this year's event is open to students in grades 6 to 12 who are required to have a sports physical prior to participating in school sports programs...

A broken electrical line connection triggered a wide-spread power outage that left an estimated 5,000 homes and businesses in Mountain Home without power for more than three hours on Wednesday. The outage began around 7:55 a.m. after a connecting line for a 69-killowatt transmission line broke, according to Stephanie McCurdy, a spokesperson with Idaho Power...

The baseball season ended for the Mountain Home Royals over the weekend as they were eliminated from the Area B Class A American Legion Tourney at Wigle Field in Boise. Earlier in the week, they split a pair of games with Canyon Ridge and lost two at Buhl...

A downed tree triggered a short but wide-spread power outage Wednesday morning that cut electrical service to nearly 2,900 homes and businesses in Mountain Home. The outage began at 10:27 a.m. after a large tree fell onto a power line in the vicinity of Hamilton Road and Old Highway 30, according to Idaho Power spokesman Kevin Winslow...

Mountain Home School District officials will host an open house at Hacker Middle School on July 28 to address concerns regarding the condition of the building and the steps being taken to address those issues. Open to the public, the open house runs from 10 a.m. to noon that day at the building on East Jackson Street with district superintendent leading the building tours every 30 minutes...