Stories from Friday, April 16, 2010

Two members of the Mountain Home High School speech and debate team, the Talkin' Tigers, earned championships at the District 3 Speech Tournament held last Saturday at Caldwell High School. Senior Raif Armstrong, already a state debate champion, was district champion in Radio Speaking while freshman James McGovern was district champion in Humorous Interpretation...

The Mountain Home Senior Center has taken another funding hit from the state. The State Department of Health and Welfare has announced that Medicaid payments for home meal deliveries -- known as Meals on Wheels -- through senior centers and other facilities in Idaho, will be suspended for the last three weeks in June. The payments will resume again when the new fiscal year begins in July...

The Mountain Home Lady Tigers picked up three more impressive wins last week in conference softball. Mountain Home 10, Columbia 0 The Mountain Home Lady Tigers certainly did not play like a team that had not played in 10 days when they blanked Columbia, 10-0, in five innings last Tuesday at Eastside Park in Mountain Home...

The Mountain Home Tiger track teams finished second behind Bishop Kelly in both the girls and boys competition Friday at Bishop Kelly. Bishop Kelly won the girls competition with 82 points, Mountain Home was second with 73.75 and Weiser was third with 31.25...

In loving memory of Mark Anthony Martinez August 22, 1952-April 14, 2010 God looked around His garden and found He an empty place. He then looked down upon this earth and saw your tired face. He put His arm around you And lifted you to rest. God's garden must be beautiful,...

Monsignor James T. Hallissey, 93, of Mountain Home, passed away on Friday, April 16, 2010, at a local care center. Arrangements are under the direction of Rost Funeral Home, McMurtrey Chapel in Mountain Home.

Monsignor James T. Hallissey, 93, died Friday, April 16, 2010, at a local care center. A service will be held at 10 a.m. at Our Lady of Good Counsel Church in Mountain Home on Tuesday. Later that evening, at 6:30 p.m., a rosary will be held at Sacred Heart Church in Boise. Wednesday, beginning at 10 a.m., a funeral mass will be held at Sacred Heart Church, followed by burial at Morris Hill Cemetery in Boise.