Stories from Thursday, January 21, 2010

After 90 minutes of discussion Jan. 13, the issue facing the Elmore County Planning and Zoning Commission came down to one word -- "only" -- which it wants to remove. Commissioners on both sides of the debate questioned whether that one word cripples future industrial growth in the county or serves to protect the quality of life of its residents...

4-H "tweens" and military "tweens," youth between the ages of 8 and 12, are invited to attend a 4-H/MilitaryTween Day at the Mountain Home Air Force Base Youth Center on Saturday, Feb. 6, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Activities will include laser tag, bowling, X-Box dance pads, jump roping and other "team building challenges."...

Mountain Home failed to finish last week, losing two close games to Kuna and Columbia in SIC 4A boys basketball. Kuna 36, Mountain Home 34 Taylor Tolbert scored with five seconds left to lift the Kuna Kavemen to a 36-34 win over the Mountain Home Tigers last Thursday night in Lloyd Schiller Gymnasium...

The Mountain Home Lady Tigers bounced back from a loss at Middleton to rout Nampa and gain a split of conference games last week. Middleton 34, Mountain Home 30 Mountain Home hoped to hand the Lady Vikings their first conference loss last Tuesday at Middleton but came up a bit short, losing to the Lady Vikings 34-30...

The Mountain Home Tigers finished seventh at the Madison Wrestling Tournament at Rexburg last weekend. Blackfoot ran away with the tourney, rolling up 251 points. Pocatello was second with 170, Jerome third with 162, Bonneville fourth with 144, Rigby fifth with 106, North Fremont sixth with 98 and Mountain Home seventh with 78. There were 15 teams that wrestled at the event...