Stories from Thursday, March 19, 2009

Students at Hacker Middle School collected and turned in 4,270 Box Tops for Education yielding $427 for the school between Feb. 2-27. During this second collection of the school year, each student who contributed received a bag of goodies, which hid a raffle ticket and sweet treats. Throughout each week, Hacker held a number of drawings and students holding winning tickets won a variety of additional prizes...

The Mountain Home Lady Tigers got their SIC 4A Conference softball season off to a good start with shutout wins over Middleton and Nampa last week. On Saturday, they dropped a non-conference doubleheader at Timberline. Mtn. Home 15 Middleton 0 The Lady Tigers erupted for nine runs in the third inning, and followed that with five more in the fourth, as they opened their softball season with a 15-0 five-inning conference win over the Middleton Lady Vikings at Middleton last Wednesday...

The Mountain Home Tigers managed a split with Emmett last week in their conference openers, and dropped a couple non-conference games at Timberline on Saturday. Mtn. Home 6, 4 Emmett 13, 3 The Tigers split their conference series with Emmett last week, losing 13-6 at Emmett on Wednesday, but taking a 4-3 contest at home against the Huskies last Thursday...

Mountain Home Tiger tennis coach Tamzy House is excited about the numbers for her high school tennis program -- the most in the school's history. House has 20 boys and 24 girls with six lettered players and 11 junior varsity returnees. House indicated a little over 60 percent of the team is new to tennis...

Mountain Home Lady Tiger varsity basketball coach Brent Keener is inviting girls from third grade to sixth grade to sign up for the Spring Youth Tiger Basketball program. "I am excited about the opportunity to provide this program, which will be focused on learning the fundamentals of basketball, introducing some basic plays, and team building," said Coach Keener...

Mountain Home hosted an SIC 4A four-team conference golf match Thursday at Desert Canyon Golf Course. The Mountain Home girls came in second, and the boys were third. Bishop Kelly won the girls competition, shooting a 208. Mountain Home came in second, 14 shots back with a 222, Columbia shot a 242, and Kuna did not have a complete team...

Dear editor: I would like to comment on the constant ranting and raving by Mr. Leonard Hutterman. I know Mr. Hutterman and his antics very well, since I tried to work with him on a number of filed complaints as the Elmore County Code Enforcement Officer...

Dear editor: We are writing concerning the Idaho Power Gateway West Transmission line. We are particularly concerned with the effect this line will have on the communities of Murphy, Oreana , Grand View and Bruneau. This section of the transmission line crosses a considerable amount of private property, impacting several of our local farmers and ranchers. In light of our current economic situation this is offensive and insane. These communities are surrounded by public lands...

Dear editor: This past Friday morning we had a terrible fire on our property. We want to thank two of our neighbors who saw the blaze and quickly called 911. The Mountain Home Fire Department's response was amazingly quick. Our large shop and garage were burned, destroying all of our vehicles, shop items and stored items...

A bright star has appeared on what has been a rather dark horizon in the world of child care in Idaho. The Idaho Senate has passed, by a 30 to 5 vote, S1112, a proposal to change Idaho's outdated and inadequate child care statute. Supporters of child care reform have tried for a number of years to amend the current statute, which leaves thousands of Idaho's children in child care facilities vulnerable to safety and health threats...