Stories from Thursday, November 18, 2010

Mountain Home High School has passed the Annual Yearly Progress, or AYP, standards. It marks the first time the high school has cleared that hurdle, part of the No Child Left Behind law, and all it took was a little mathematics. Under AYP, schools are evaluated in 41 different demographic categories, provided they have at least 34 students who qualify in a category. ...

The First Annual Mountain Home Festival of Trees, sponsored by the Rotary Club of Elmore County, will be held Nov. 29 to Dec. 9, at participating business locations. The purpose is to raise funds for the club's high school graduate scholarship program and to give to the needy of Mountain Home...

The "Give Cancer the Boot" fun run, jog, walk and crawl fundraiser starts at 10 a.m. Nov. 20 at Legacy Park. Proceeds from the event go to help local teacher Danni Gilbert and Dr. Wakelee Bledsoe in their fight against the disease. The race features shorter courses for younger competitors with longer, 1 1/2 mile and five-kilometer events scheduled for teens and adults. Parents must accompany children up to age 6 participating in the quarter-mile event...

For the first time in more than 10 years, a debate team from Mountain Home High School won a debate division at the Whitman College Debate Tournament in Walla Walla, Wash. Two weeks ago, the team of Carolyn Bailey and Austin DeJohn won the novice division of Public Forum Debate at the largest debate tournament in the Northwest...

The number of alternative energy facilities in Elmore County may jump next year after a request to build several more wind farms gained initial approval by the county's planning and zoning commission Nov. 3. During the recent meeting, the commission recommended passage of six conditional use permits to construct up to 55 wind turbines near a group of 10 existing towers north of Hammett...

The Mountain Home Lady Tigers went scoreless the last three and a half minutes of the game as Twin Falls pulled away for a 52-38 win Friday night in Lloyd Schiller Gymnasium. It was the season opener for both ball clubs. The game was an intense defensive battle, with the game close up until the final two minutes...