Stories from Wednesday, December 10, 2025

Rain continued falling across Mountain Home on Wednesday, Dec. 5, prompting city officials to cancel this year’s Enchanted Christmas parade scheduled for that evening with plans in place to host a similar holiday event. City officials plan to host the new holiday event starting at 6 p.m. today, Dec. 10, in Railroad Park...

A former Mountain Home church pastor returns to court Jan. 5 to face charges of sexual assault following a preliminary hearing held Friday afternoon. Gregory W. Jones, who served as the head of the Liberty Christian Fellowship Church in Mountain Home for more than 33 years, faces a felony count of forcible sexual penetration by use of a foreign object in which the victim was prevented from resistance due to the use of an intoxicating, narcotic or anesthetic substance...

Members of the Elmore Ambulance Service and the Elmore County Rescue team watched a symbolic gesture of support take place as they gathered last week at the county rescue building. It began as Paris Dickerson, economic and community development manager for Idaho Power, extended her right hand toward Alan Roberts, emergency services director with the Elmore Ambulance and Elmore Rescue organizations...

The Mountain Home community joins cities across the nation Saturday morning to honor its military veterans during the annual Wreaths Across America Day observance. Currently scheduled to start at 10 a.m. that day at Mountain View Cemetery, community representatives and volunteers plan to continue a tradition by placing specially designated wreaths in honor of the Army, Marines, Navy, Air Force, Coast Guard and Merchant Marine as well as current and former prisoners or war and those still missing in action.. ...

I must admit the report released by the Idaho State Board of Education a few weeks ago seemed to connect with me in a way I didn’t see coming. It involved the results of evaluations regarding teachers across the state that worked to maintain their classrooms in ways that helped their students focus on their studies, especially those who struggle with their ability to learn...

Kinslee Karovic listens as Santa Claus reads off a list of Christmas gifts the child hoped to receive as her family took part in Mountain Home’s first-ever Christkindl Markt on Saturday. Elements of German heritage and culture came together that afternoon at the Hub Plaza in the city’s downtown area as hundreds of people gathered to enjoy various holiday meals as they took time to check out vendor booths that offered an assortment of authentic German meals along with various handmade jewelry, bookmarks and other unique hand-crafted items along with festive wreaths and traditional German holiday goods.. ...

The consequences of dangerous actions that teenagers and others in this nation often make took the stage at Glenns Ferry High School last week as a man shared his message of how to avoid making those life-changing choices. During a scheduled assembly in the high school gymnasium, Chris Sandy shared with these students how his life changed as the result of an impaired driving crash that happened 25 years ago...

Efforts to raise money to support a state youth program turned into an effort that provided needed help for a woman battling cancer while offering city firefighters a chance to gain some first-hand training last month. The team of six firefighters brought two brush trucks to a home on North 18th East Street on Nov. 29 as they performed a controlled burn to remove tumble weeds that crowded around the residence...

The spirit of the holiday season takes a new direction later this week as Mountain Home High School’s Encore Company presents “A Peter Pan Christmas” this Saturday. The show begins with a matinee performance at 2 p.m. that afternoon in Lloyd Schiller Gymnasium with the second performance following at 7 p.m...

The equine horse arena at Optimist Park in Mountain Home remains closed this week as work continues to control the spread of a virus affecting horses in at least three states. The closure came after reports surfaced regarding signs of the Equine Herpesvirus, or EHV–1, detected in horses in Texas, Oklahoma and Louisiana following several equine competitive events held recently in Texas and Oklahoma...