Stories from Wednesday, March 5, 2008

l team opens its season next Tuesday afternoon at home against Timberline. Despite the turnout being the smallest in Tiger baseball coach Travis DeVore's seven years at Mountain Home, he has plenty of experience back from a team that went 12-15 last season...

on Thursday and hosting Wood River for two games on Saturday. Chris Asbury assumes the head coaching spot this season, after Joy Memmelaar succumbed to her battle with cancer in the off season. Asbury has been an assistant the last few years, and he likes the numbers they had turn out this year for softball...

13 members competing against 550 other area youths in seven different age categories at the Homedale Freestyle and Greco Roman wrestling tournament this past weekend. Bringing home gold were: Tanner Keener, Kanoa Doronio and Ty Kleffner. Taking silver was Ryan Goldsby...

lympic Invitational Winter Games held Feb. 25-28. Casey Soboslai won two gold medals competing in the superglide and slalom events. Christopher C. Connell finished second in the same events. Mathew Stewart took home two gold medals in the snowboarding events and Josh Hardy earned a bronze...

Public hearings determined two key motions during the recent meeting of the Mountain Home City Council, one for the increase in library fees (non-resident library cards) and the other for the Idaho Department Block Grant for $100,000 to help revamp the Mountain Home Senior Center...

The Idaho Department of Transportation has let bids for a project to rebuild American Legion Boulevard this summer. The rebuilding project will go from N. 14th East Street to N. 2nd East Street. The project is scheduled to start on May 27 and last for about five weeks...

In an effort to seek public input on the ambulance service, County Commissioner Connie Cruser organized a public meeting last week involving local dignitaries and parties closely related to the situation, including Karl and Carrie Vogt from Northwest Paramedics, the current county ambulance service provider...

MHHS Encore Co. will present a series of short scenes this Friday, March 7, at 6 p.m. in the MHHS Gym. Scenes include student directed humorous and dramatic solos and ensembles. The event is free to the public. The "Spring Showcase '08" performances will include:...

Dear editor: I wanted to take a moment and voice my concern for the new vehicle registration tax that is being considered. I make a good wage as well as my wife, but no matter what wage increases we have received over the last several years, there is no way that we have kept up with the cost increase for all goods and services...

Dear editor: I would like to (ask) citizens in the community to donate unwanted items to be dropped off and sold at a yard sale at 165 N. 11th East St., right next door to the Maverick, to benefit a wonderful woman who is very ill with cancer. She has been told to get her effects in order and would like to spend the remaining months with her children and grandchildren in Napa Valley, Calif. I am trying to make money for her to move down there...

Free HIV testing will be held at the Mountain Home office of El-Ada on March 27 from 9 a.m. to noon. No appointments are required and results of the test, which use an oral mucosal sample (gum line swab) rather than a blood test, will be available within 20 minutes...

Dale Jensen Dale Theodore Jensen, 61, of Glenns Ferry, died Friday, Feb. 29, 2008, at his home, surrounded by his family. A memorial celebration of his life will be held Friday, March 7, at 10 a.m. at the VFW Hall in Glenns Ferry. Arrangements are under the direction of Rost Funeral Home, McMurtrey Chapel in Mountain Home...

Bob Haahr Robert "Bob" L. Haahr, 41, of Florence, Ariz., formerly of Mountain Home and North Dakota, died Feb. 21, 2008, at his home in Florence. Visitation and funeral services were held on Wednesday, Feb. 27, in Florence, with Pastor Harley Faber officiating. Military Honors were done by VFW Post #1677 of Casa Grande, Ariz. Inurnment will be in the National Memorial Cemetery of Arizona in Phoenix, Ariz. at a later date...

An open house to launch the three-week visit of a major exhibition celebrating the life of Abraham Lincoln and his impact on Idaho will be held March 6 from 6-8 p.m. at the Mountain Home Public Library. Lincoln re-enactor Skip Critell, as well as a number of other re-enactors in period costume from the Idaho Civil War Skirmish Association, will be on hand as well as a number of state and local dignitaries. The formal opening ceremony begins at 6:30 p.m...

The Mountain Home School District will ask voters April 29 to approve a $37 million bond to complete Phase II of its long-delay effort to turn the junior high into a four-year high school.

Nathaniel William Loomis, 27--DUI. Rena Louise Lowrey, 46--FTA; FTA/FTP. Leonel Rangel, 25--probation violation. Myron Max Collins, 44--unlawful entry; battery. Megan Theresa Fuller, 31--probation violation. Gerardo Gomez-Gomez, 53--battery. Eric Taylor Grimes, 35--domestic battery...

District Court Kevin J. Jackson, 27, had a charge of aggravated assault (use of a deadly weapon/instrument) stemming from a 6/19/07 case, dismissed by the court. Jackson was found guilty for malicious injury to property (6/19/07 case). Jackson was sentenced to 240 days in jail (240 credit days, to run concurrent with the following charge). Jackson was found guilty for battery-domestic violence/traumatic injury (6/18/07 case).

Michael and Joanne Piehl of Mountain Home have announced the birth of a boy, Josiah Michael Mitchell Piehl, on Feb. 15, 2008, at Elmore Medical Center. Josiah was 8 lbs. 14 oz. at birth and was 21 inches long. Grandparents are Roy and Carol Mitchell of Mountain Home and Mike and Natalie Piehl of Mitchell, S.D...