Stories from Thursday, March 19, 2015

The Mountain Home Tigers opened their baseball season with non-conference road losses to Vallivue and Canyon Ridge. Vallivue 11, Mountain Home 1 The Tigers opened their baseball season last Wednesday at Vallivue, losing to the 5A Falcons, 11-1, in five innings...

A campaign to raise more than $850,000 to help build a community recreation center in Mountain Home entered its fourth month with those backing the effort committing pledges toward that goal. During a meeting March 11, seven members of the capital campaign committee met with city officials and representatives from the Western Elmore County Recreation District to announce they would pledge up to $215,000 based on matching contributions from others in the local area...

A house on North 3rd East Street will burn to the ground Saturday morning. But don't worry. It's all according to plan. City firefighters will raze the structure to complete the last phase of their scheduled training. Held in an abandoned single-story home at 455 North 3rd East St., it culminates a series of exercises conducted over the past five months...

Barry L. Anderson, 73 of Mountain Home, passed away on March 16, 2015, after a long battle with cancer. Barry was never married and had no children but had many great friends who will miss him greatly. Barry was a farmer for his entire life and loved all things that involved cows, dirt and tractors. Barry will always be remembered for his profound love of all of God's creatures, great and small.