Glenns Ferry News

The Elmore County Fair will kick off next week, July 12-18, featuring the return of Paradise Amusements from last year and the return of the ICA/IMPRA rodeo to the same week as the fair.

A Glenns Ferry woman is in a Boise hospital recovering from a rattlesnake bite. On Friday, June 27, Sheila Kramer was weed whacking along a fence line between two East Cleveland homes when she felt a sharp pain in her leg.

As the county commissioners wrestle with what the comprehensive land-use plan for the county intended with regard to industrial zoning, the county's new growth and development director, Brent Butler, is already launching a project to conduct a full review and revision of that crucial document.

Elmore County Premium Books and carnival pre-sale tickets are now available. "Are you interested in participating in the biggest contest in Elmore County," Fair Director Shea Burns asked.

To be charitable, this was not the county commissioners' finest hour Monday, as they fumbled through a debate on the AEHI nuclear plant rezone request.

Starting Friday, June 12 the new season of dinner theatre opens at the great Glenns Ferry Opera Theatre.

On Tuesday, the Treasure Valley saw some much needed rain. It rained so much in Elmore County that a flood warning was issued for Glenns Ferry because of standing water.

Torrential rains that fell last Tuesday evening in Glenns Ferry overwhelmed the city's drainage system forcing public works employees to work well into the next morning.

On Friday, May 22, 31 seniors bid farewell to their high school alma mater as Glenns Ferry High School held graduation exercises in the Gordon Brown Gymnasium.

This year's Cowboy Crazee Daze will provide entertainment in venues all over the city of Mountain Home.

Elmore County Invitational Horse Show, hosted by the University of Idaho Elmore County 4-H, will be held Saturday, May 30, at the county fairgrounds in Glenns Ferry.

In one of the strangest moments yet in this year's most unusual legislative session, the House finished its calendar and attempted to adjourn sine die, which means without a day to come back.

The Glenns Ferry Health Center, will sponsor a Health Fair on Tuesday, April 28, from 8-10:30 a.m. at the Valley Health Center, 350 Main St., in Grand View.

An energy company looking to build a nuclear plant in Elmore County was the subject of a public hearing in Mountain Home Wednesday.

Bish is competing in the Women's Class of the Idaho State Motorcross Series and recently took a first place in Glenns Ferry on her CRS 150 in the 150cc class competiton for youths 12 years old and younger.

I am taking a breather from unrealistic and over exaggerations to make a peaceful shameless plug for the other life I lead as a theatrical drama queen.

Mountain Home dog owners now have a local facility where they can train their dogs for participation in the growing sport of dog agility.

Dianne Moffett and Don Holloway have been selected as Grand Marshals for the 2009 Elmore County Fair and Rodeo, as members of the fair board look on.

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The status of the congregate meals and Meals on Wheels programs at the Mountain Home Senior Center are up in the air after a decision by Central District Health Department to end its subsidy of those programs.