Stories from Wednesday, June 1, 2005

More than 230 seniors, who earned over $700,000 in scholarships, received their diplomas Friday during commencement exercises for the Mountain Home High School Class of 2005. Beneath bright, sunny skies, the graduates filed in to Tiger Field, led by their instructors, as a capacity crowd of family and friends filled the stadium to watch them make the transition from student to adult...

Monday, June 6, Mountain Home Community Transit begins a four-month demonstration program to offer public transportation for downtown Mountain Home and to Mountain Home Air Force Base. The Mountain Home bus route is designed to connect residents with employment, friends, family, health care options, shopping and recreation activities...

A good crowd of several hundred people, plus nearly 300 uniformed volunteers from the 366th Fighter Wing, turned out Monday for solemn Memorial Day ceremonies at Mountain View Cemetery. "Comrades," said Pat Crook, American Legion Post No. 26 commander, "this day is sacred with the almost visible presences of those who have gone before us..."...

Within two weeks after getting the Secretary of Defense's recommendations for realignment and closure of the nation's bases, members of the commission that will review and modify those recommendations began fanning out across the country looking at the bases on the list...

Several Mountain Home Tiger baseball players earned awards at last week's awards banquet at the high school. Earning Academic All-Conference was Tyson Sessions. First Team All-Conference SIC awards for pitching went to Michael DesPres and Michael Hobgood...

Graduates of the MHHS Class of 2005 are: Heather Lee Abbey Derrik Lee Abel Phillip Wesley Acord, Jr. Mathew Scott Adamson Haley Annette Anderson Zachary Paul Anderson Bianca Nicole Arbuckle Brendan Lee Ash Jason Robert Barney Jared Wendell Barr Jessica Page Barr...

The following scholarships were announced at graduation. The Class of 2005 earned over $700,000 in scholarships, including more than $60,000 provided by local merchants and organizations. Scholarship recipients are: Brendan Ash: University of Idaho; Idaho Robert Lee Promise Scholarship...

Stephen Douglas Damele, 60, of Mountain Home, died Wednesday, May 25, 2005, at his residence. Funeral mass will be held today, Wednesday, June 1, at 10 a.m. at St. Elizabeth Catholic Church in Gooding. Burial will be held at Eureka County Cemetery at 2 p.m. on Thursday, June 2, in Eureka, Nev. Arrangements are under the direction of Summers Funeral Homes, McMurtrey Chapel in Mountain Home...