Stories from Friday, April 26, 2013

The Mountain Home Tigers competed in two track meets last week. They won their dual with Nampa on Wednesday and also competed at the Middleton Invitational on Thursday. At Wednesday's Mountain Home dual with Nampa, the Tigers won the girls competition 79-3 and won the boys meet 80-63...

The Mountain Home Tiger tennis team had three matches last week, with the girls team downing Gooding. Skyview Girls 7, Mountain Home Girls 0 Skyview Boys 6 Mountain Home Boys 1 Mountain Home hosted the Skyview Hawks in SIC 4A conference tennis last Monday, losing, 7-0, in girls action, and 6-1, in boys play at Richard Aguirre Park...

A team of students from Hacker Middle School won overall honors during a robotics competition held Saturday in Twin Falls. The middle school sent two teams to this year's Mars Rover Challenge at the College of Southern Idaho to take on 18 teams representing fifth- and sixth-grade students from across the state...

For more than 35 years, Steven Roberts was entrusted to care for a unique garden in Mountain Home. Enclosed by an iron fence that designates its boundaries, it includes plenty of shade trees and flowers. But it's the 9,000 individual blocks of marble that make this garden so unique. Arranged in neat, orderly lines stretching as far as the eye can see, each one bears the name of a loved one that has died...

A Mountain Home man reported missing nine days ago was found dead at a campground in Owyhee County on Wednesday. The body of Russell Holsinger, 67, was discovered in his truck, which was submerged in a lake at the Cottonwood Camp Ground on the Snake River.

The United States Air Force is considering ordering training ranges around the country -- including the ranges at Mountain Home Air Force Base -- to be shut down or sharply curtail operations due to the budget constraints of sequestration. Col. Christopher Short, 366th Fighter Wing Commander at Mountain Home AFB, said that there are discussions being held by top Air Force officials about the possibility of cutting back at some training ranges and the local training range complex "is one of ten smaller ranges being considered.". ...