Stories from Wednesday, September 26, 2012

The Mountain Home Tigers were hoping to end a 17-game losing skid Friday night when they took on the Caldwell Cougars for homecoming at Tiger Field. They had their chances, coming up with five Caldwell turnovers, but were only able to capitalize on one of them as they lost to the Cougars 28-26...

Senior Ashley Sessions was named this year's homecoming queen during halftime of Friday's football game against Caldwell. The gridiron thriller came down to the final seconds in the second half with a penalty costing the Mountain Home High School Tigers an initial field goal. The second attempt hooked to the left of the uprights as the seconds ticked away and the Tigers lost their 17th game in a row by a score of 28-26 (see story in Sports)...

The Mountain Home City Council is in the process of debating how -- and who -- to replace retired Fire Chief Phil Gridley. Phil retired this spring. He'd given better than a year of advance warning. Somehow, the city council still can't figure out what it wants to do, or who it wants to give the job to. ...

Ideally, this country would have two strong political parties that are evenly matched, one just to the right of center, one just to the left. Not radically right or left, just a little bit. In each legislative and congressional district each party would be so balanced in support that the candidates would have to seek middle-of-the-road compromise positions if they were to win over the centrist independents who would always be the deciding factor in an election. ...

Pat and Stacy Dickson of Hammett have announced the birth of a boy, Trigger Wane Dickson, on Sept. 9, 2012, at St. Luke's Regional Medical Center in Boise. At birth, Trigger weighed 8.7 lbs. and was 20 inches long. He joins two sisters in the family, Paige, 7, and Shelby, 4...

Mountain Home High School's Lady Tigers lost conference volleyball matches to Middleton and Kuna last week. Middleton 25, 25, 20, 25 Mountain Home 10, 11, 25, 19 The Lady Tigers started slow Tuesday night, getting behind two games to none before they finally came up with a win. But the fourth game got away from them as Middleton won the match, three games to one...

The Tigers let one get away from them last Monday night at Eastside Park as the Bishop Kelly Knights came away with a 3-2 win in boys soccer. Brandon Zacharias and Rodrigo Saenz scored goals for Mountain Home. Fernando Martinez had an assist. Jack Richelieu had 13 saves for Mountain Home...

The Mountain Home girls soccer team traveled to Bishop Kelly last Tuesday, Sept. 18, to face the unbeaten Lady Knights. The Lady Tigers played hard, but came up on the short end of a 10-1 conference contest. Missy Jessup scored Mountain Home's goal off an assist by Nicole Pardillo. Venessa Estrella had five saves on goal...

As expected, the competition for Mountain Home runners was extremely tough at the Bob Firman Invitational Cross Country Meet at Eagle Island State Park Saturday, but the Mountain Home runners had good times. In the Division I boys race, Jake Schaefer led Mountain Home runners, finishing 176th in a time of 18:33.12. ...

It took a little over two years and more than 430 pounds of spare change to make it happen, but Randy Miller's vision finally became a reality. On a sunny Saturday afternoon, he put the finishing touches on what he hopes will be a new tourist destination in the city's downtown area that literally took shape one penny at a time...