Stories from Thursday, April 3, 2014

Limits on how many dogs city residents could own and revisions to animal kennel requirements highlighted a list of issues the city council discussed during a public meeting March 26. The council scheduled the hearing after members of the public spoke out in opposition of proposed changes to the local animal law during a council meeting earlier that week...

The Mountain Home Tigers received some great pitching efforts from four pitchers, but couldn't get their bats going as they dropped a 1-0 non-conference baseball game to the Twin Falls Bruins last Friday at Tiger Field in Mountain Home. Zach Petersen, Levi Abrahamson, Jesse Cobos and Danny Brescia combined on a five-hitter, striking out three and walking just one and hitting one. ...

James "Jim" Lavoy Franks, 60, of Glenns Ferry, passed away at his home on Wednesday, April 2, 2014. Arrangements are under the direction of Rost Funeral Home, McMurtrey Chapel, 500 N. 18th East St., in Mountain Home.

Mary Jean O'Sullivan Hall was born March 12, 1923, and died March 26, 2014. Landing a 45-pound 48-inch striped bass was nothing out of the ordinary for this diminutive dynamo -- all four foot ten of her. The family's eyes when deer hunting, she made sure the "bacon" was spotted and brought home...