Stories from Thursday, March 23, 2017

Plans to provide library cards for residents outside of city limits officially came to an end after the Mountain Home Public Library Board officially turned down the request during a meeting March 16. The proposal introduced recently by the Western Elmore County Recreation District sought to provide up to $30,000 in funding to offer "scholarships" in the form of library cards to these residents...

The state of street repairs in the Mountain Home area following a harsh winter topped a range of topics aired during an informal gathering that allowed Mayor Rich Sykes and local officials to meet with people in the local community. During his comments at the inaugural "Coffee With the Mayor" event last Thursday, Sykes said he was very happy with the larger-than-expected crowd, who came to speak to the mayor and city department heads...

Mountain Home High School's tennis team found the going tough as they faced losses to Skyview and Bishop Kelly last week. Mountain Home boys 0, Skyview boys 7 Mountain Home girls 0, Skyview girls 7 The Tigers' tennis team hosted Skyview at Richard Aguirre Park on March 14 where they faced shutouts by the Hawks...

Facing one of the state's top-ranked teams, the Lady Tigers found the going tough as they fell to Kuna before they regrouped to take down Kimberly as this year's varsity softball season continued. Mountain Home 0, Kuna 10 Kuna's Lady Kavemen erupted onto the scoreboard with seven runs at the top of the third and added three more in the fifth as they shut out the Lady Tigers during regular season action March 14 at East Side Park...