Stories from Friday, March 28, 2014

The Mountain Home Lady Tigers softball team started off the week with a win, but then dropped three straight in a busy week of softball action. Mountain Home 14, Columbia 4 (5 innings) The Lady Tigers took advantage of 17 walks by Columbia pitchers to down the Lady Wildcats 14-4 in five innings in conference softball last Tuesday at Memmelaar Field in Mountain Home...

The week got better for Mountain Home Tiger tennis teams, with the boys picking up two wins, the girls one. Bishop Kelly Girls 5 Mountain Home Girls 2 ---- Bishop Kelly Boys 7 Tiger Boys 0 The Tigers traveled to Bishop Kelly last Monday for a conference tennis match. The Tiger girls lost, 5-2, while the boys were blanked 7-0 by the Knights...

The Mountain Home Arts Council will present Maria in the Shower on Friday, April 11, at 7 p.m. in the Mountain Home High School gymnasium. Maria in the Shower is a folk cabaret "with passion, an original revival of energetic swing, rootsy blues, haunting four-part vocal harmony and unmitigated magic," an arts council spokesperson said...

A Union Pacific train derailed approximately ten miles east of Mountain Home early Friday afternoon. The last of two "pusher" locomotives at the end of the two-mile-long westbound train derailed for causes yet to be officially determined, although the two-man crew of the train suspects a brake may have locked up...