Idaho state schools Superintendent Sherri Ybarra, who is from Mountain Home, has hired Kelly Everitt, who was managing editor of the Mountain Home News for the past 26 years, as her communications specialist, Idaho Education News reports. Reporter Kevin Richert writes that Everitt had announced in a newspaper column last week that he planned to leave the newspaper business. He also reports on continuing staff changes at the state Department of Education, including elimination of two positions in information technology and the departure of the department’s web designer; Richert’s full report is online here.