Mary Power is 92 and worried about surviving another frigid New England winter because deep cuts in federal home heating assistance benefits mean she probably can’t afford enough heating oil to stay warm.

She lives in a drafty trailer in Boston’s West Roxbury neighborhood and gets by on $11,148 a year in pension and Social Security benefits. Her heating aid help this year will drop from $1,035 to $685. With rising heating oil prices, it probably will cost her more than $3,000 for enough oil to keep warm unless she turns her thermostat down to 60 degrees, as she plans.

“I will just have to crawl into bed with the covers over me and stay there,” said Power, a widow who worked as a cashier and waitress until she was 80.

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BOISE — The Boise Airport will soon be operating with fewer commercial flights.

As we first reported earlier this week, American Eagle Airlines will be discontinuing service in February and Southwest will stop non-stop flights in January to three cities.

Some passengers are concerned this will make travel from the airport more difficult.

“We need to have choices and it would certainly cause a problem and I think you could have a loss of people traveling into Boise if they don’t have a lot of choice, they’re not going to want to come,” said Michel Curran-Wells.

The Boise Mayor’s Office says seeing these airlines discontinue service is not what they want to see, but don’t believe it will have an economic impact on the city.

American Eagle will discontinue service all together on their two non-stop flights to Los Angeles in February.

In January, Southwest Airlines will stop non-stop flights to three cities: Salt Lake City, Seattle and Reno.

Boise Airport spokeswoman Patti Miller says the routes being cut just weren’t making the airlines money.

“It’s still a sign of the times, the airlines have to be profitable, so the airlines are going to put their aircraft in the routes that have the possibility of profit,” said Miller.

While the choices of airlines will be limited soon at the Boise Airport, the mayor’s office says that could also mean some airlines may try to come in and take over those routes.