Stories from Wednesday, October 21, 2009

The city should tread very carefully as it mulls a possible plan to allow extension of a sewer beyond the city limits along Daniels Road to the proposed new Nazarene church property. As nice as it would be to help out one of the larger church congregations in town, one that has willingly opened its facilities for community activities, there are some serious concerns regarding overall city growth and development that must be considered...

Dear editor: The Mellen Sub Water is having elections in November. I'm writing this letter response to Bart Eben's letter, May 13, 2009. My name is Ron Hazuka. I've been on the board for 10 years. I'm not speaking on behalf of the Westside Sewer District or Mellen Sub Water District. These are only my opinions...

Dear editor: I have been Secretary of Mellen Sub Water District since July 2005. I was hired by Bart Eben when he was president. When I started I immediately got everything (records, paperwork, etc.) dumped in my living room. He had confiscated these records from the previous secretary's house in Glenns Ferry. ...

Dear editor: In Mr. Art Vagt's letter last week, "tell the truth," he states that I had said in a letter I wrote last May in this paper, "I had resigned before my term was up." Yes, I did say this. He then went on to state that I had resigned in November, my term was up in December and that there wasn't enough time left for him to have gotten on the ballot...

The Mountain Home Lady Tigers bounced back from their opening loss of the District III 4A Girls Soccer Tournament, but lost to Kuna in the consolation semi-finals, to exit from the tourney. Mountain Home 10, Emmett 1 The Lady Tigers bounced back from their opening round loss to end Emmett's season, 10-1, last Monday at the District III 4A Girls Soccer Tournament at Skyview...

The Mountain Home Lady Tigers closed out their regular season volleyball schedule on a losing note, losing in three straight games to Emmett last Tuesday night in Lloyd Schiller Gymnasium. It was Senior Night, with seven Mountain Home Lady Tiger seniors playing their final volleyball match before the home crowd...

The Mountain Home Lady Tigers were eliminated from both the sophomore and junior varsity district tournaments Saturday. The sophomore Lady Tigers went into the District III 4A Volleyball Tournament at Nampa seeded eighth and opened against top-seeded Skyview. Mountain Home promptly lost to the Lady Hawks in the single-elimination tournament...

The Mountain Home Tigers JV football team put on a tough goal-line stand to hold on to beat the Nampa JV 19-12 in conference football at Nampa last Thursday night. Both teams scored in the first quarter, Mountain Home's score coming on a 1-yard run by Austin Clark...

Once again the Mountain Home Tiger boys soccer team finished one win away from going to the State 4A Boys Soccer Tournament, although this year they did finish third at the District III 4A Boys Soccer Tournament. Mountain Home 2, Columbia 1 The Tigers bounced back from their tough shoot-out loss to the Middleton Vikings on Saturday with a 2-1 win over the Columbia Wildcats on Monday at Bishop Kelly...

Mountain Home finished fifth in both the girls and boys cross country races at the Mountain Home Invitational Cross Country meet last Thursday at Desert Canyon Golf Course in Mountain Home. Mountain View won the girls' competition with an impressive 25 points. Centennial was second with 65, Jerome was third with 80, Twin Falls fourth with 87, Mountain Home, fifth with 110, followed by Wood River with 138 and Burley with 139...

For most of the football game Friday night, it looked like the Mountain Home Tigers were going to snap their three-game losing skid and celebrate Homecoming with a win over Nampa. But then the unthinkable happened -- the Nampa Bulldogs made their way down the field in the final minute, scoring on an incredible catch by Josh Seward that carried the Nampa Bulldogs to a 27-23 win...

Arlene Futch was named the 2009 Homecoming Queen during halftime of the MHHS homecoming game, a 27-23 defeat for the Mountain Home Tigers by the Nampa Bulldogs. Futch, standing on stage with her father, Tom, was overwhelmed while accepting her crown, her sash, a bouquet of roses and congratulatory hugs from her fellow queen nominees...

Bye: San Francisco, Dallas, Miami, Indianapolis Week 6 Leaders: Passing 1. Ben Roethlisberger, Pittsburgh Steelers 417 yds 3. Joe Flacco, Baltimore Ravens 385 yds 4. Tom Brady, New England Patriots 380 yds, (6 TDs) 5. Drew Brees, New Orleans Saints 369 yds, (4 TDs)...

by Brian Orban Mountain Home News As debate continues over the fate of a proposed nuclear power plant in Elmore County, the company backing the initiative submitted an application Monday seeking an alternate site in Payette County for the generating facility...