Stories from Thursday, May 6, 2010

Mountain Home High School's Encore Company will present its final production of the season, "A Night at the Wax Museum," by Craig Sodaro, May 13-15 beginning each night at 7 p.m. in the MHHS gym. Tickets, sold at the door, are $3 for students and $5 for adults...

A Prairie couple have fallen victim to one of the latest internet scams. The couple believed they had purchased two four-wheelers on Craig's List for $3,500. But the photo and information concerning the vehicles had been copied by criminals from another Craig's List ad. The couple were then referred to a fake e-Bay site to make their payment...

The Mountain Home High School yearbook and newspaper classes won several top awards at the National Journalism competitions held in Portland, Ore., April 15-18. The 2009 Mountain Home High School yearbook took a silver medal from the National Scholastic Press Association for its "contribution to sound journalism writing and adherence to compelling design techniques," according to Edmund Sullivan, executive director of the Columbia Scholastic Press Association...

Plans to potentially build a community recreation center in Mountain Home moved a step ahead following initial approval of a request to annex 20 acres of land into the city. Conducted during the city's planning and zoning meeting Monday evening, the commission also recommended approving a second request to rezone the property for commercial use by the Western Elmore County Recreation District...

Dear editor: It has been brought to my attention that as a culmination of the smear campaign the Boise County Democrats have waged against me, they are going to bring out a civil tort claim that my husband has filed against Boise County. This tort claim was brought about by a personal attack against my husband, Fred, after he left office as a county commissioner...

Dear editor: I am writing to say thanks to the community for their help in the aluminum can drive that we held at Hacker Middle School. Due to all the hard work of students, staff and community members, we were able to collect 3,039 pounds of aluminum, which is enough for a family to spend seventy-two nights at the Ronald McDonald House. We hope that everyone in Mountain Home will be able to help us again next year...

Following a winning season that put them one game shy of going to this year's state basketball championships, two of this year's Lady Tiger varsity all-stars earned a chance to play in the college ranks. During a ceremony Monday afternoon, Blas Lord and Shelby Posey signed letters of intent to play with Wenatchee Valley College on separate scholarship programs...

The Mountain Home Lady Tigers continued their dominance of SIC 4A teams, rolling to impressive wins over Kuna and Columbia, clinching the conference crown in doing so. Lady Tigers 11, Kuna 1 Once again, the Mountain Home Lady Tigers and Kuna Lady Kavemen got together for a conference showdown last Tuesday, and once again Mountain Home proved it is head and shoulders above anyone else in the conference, as they clobbered the Lady Kavemen 11-1 in five innings...