Stories from Friday, February 11, 2011

The Mountain Home Lady Tigers opened the District III 4A girls basketball tournament with a win over Skyview, but ran into a hot-shooting Middleton team in the semi-finals. Mountain Home 47, Skyview 36 The Lady Tigers opened the tournament with a 47-36 win over Skyview last Wednesday night in Lloyd Schiller Gymnasium...

Mountain Home Tigers wrestling coach Coach Lynn Knudson went into last Thursday's dual match with Columbia knowing that the defending 4A state champion Wildcats would be tough. But he was looking to use it as a test as to where his young, injury-laden team was and where they needed to be to be competitive at state...

Basques from Mountain Home and surrounding communities will gather later this month to celebrate their culture and share it with others during the 51st Annual Basque Sheepherders' Ball. Held Feb. 26 at the Elk's Lodge just a block from the city's historic Basque district, the evening features food, music and dancing unique to this ethnic European culture...

As a child, Belinda Fisher was well known for her love and compassion for animals. The second of eight children, she came home one time with a rabbit in tow to spare it from an unmentionable fate. When she got older, she paid out hundreds of dollars to save the life of an gravely injured cat...

Dozens of students stood together in silence with their gaze transfixed on the small display at the front of the makeshift classroom. Their right hands placed over their hearts, a few of the youngsters shifted in their feet -- just a little -- hoping to get a better look at the American flag that the two uniformed men were saluting...