Stories from Thursday, March 17, 2011

More than 120 band and choir students from the Mountain Home School District earned top marks during a band and choir festival Saturday in Caldwell. Those representing local area schools were 42 performers from Mountain Home Junior High School and 84 students from Hacker Middle School...

The Bureau of Reclamation has announced a temporary road closure at Anderson Ranch Dam Road from the cattle guard near the Dixie Borrow area down to the dam crest. The closure is in effect during daytime construction hours through May 23. It began Monday...

The Mountain Home Tigers opened their 2011 baseball season with a non-conference sweep of Wood River Friday at Tiger Field, 9-0 and 6-3. In the first game, Jared Day and Gage Curtis combined on a one-hit shutout of the Wolverines. Ronnie Young, Jake Hennessey, Gage Curtis and Enrique Varela all had two hits. Varela had a double and three RBIs, Hennessey had two RBIs and Young had a double. Skyler Podesek and Alex Rodriguez also had hits while Jared Day and Joe Gutierrez both had RBIs...

The Mountain Home Lady Tigers finished second at the second annual Pre-Season SIC Softball Tournament at Skyview over the weekend, beating Nampa and Emmett before losing to Skyview in the championship game. Mountain Home 8, Nampa 3 The young Lady Tigers battled back from a 3-0 deficit to down Nampa 8-3 in their tourney opener on Friday...

A 12-year-old girl suffered what appeared to be relatively minor injuries when she was struck by a vehicle in a crosswalk at 9th Street and American Legion adjacent to Hacker Middle School Thursday morning. The incident occurred at about 7:45 a.m. Her parents have been notified...

A single-vehicle crash just after 8:30 p.m. Wednesday night on I-84 sent the driver of a semi to St. Alphonsus Regional Medical Center with serious injuries and blocked the westbound lanes of the interstate until early Thursday morning. Traffic was diverted to the old Highway 30 at exits 99 and 112 until about 8 a.m. Thursday.