Stories from Thursday, March 24, 2011

The blue evening gown caught the attention of Alyssa Beck. Pulling it from the rack of similar gowns, the Mountain Home High School student held it up as fellow student Keesha Janis-Gibson nodded in approval. Moving from dress to dress, both teens smiled as a few other dresses caught their eye. Occasionally, they'd pause and see if any of the others fit their unique style...

After nearly seven months away from their family and friends, approximately 200 airmen from Mountain Home Air Force Base returned home Saturday following a deployment to Southwest Asia. Assigned to the 726th Air Control Squadron at the nearby base, the team conducted military operations in the region in support of Operation New Dawn...

DIG-IT, an arm of the city's Economic Development Office, has unveiled its latest project -- "Local Joe, Shop Local." "Local Joe was created as an awareness campaign to help educate or remind the community that shopping local helps to fund all of our local services," said Sue Gross, a member of the DIG-IT committee...

Students at Hacker Middle School continued this week to collect recycled metal as part of an annual drive that ultimately benefits ailing children across Idaho and neighboring states. Organized by the school's team building classes, the project includes accepting an assortment of recyclable material, including iron, tin, metal pipes and aluminum cans...

Panic over radiation fears from the Japanese nuclear plant crisis resulted in every pharmacy in Mountain Home being flooded with calls last week inquiring about the availability of potassium iodide tablets. The tablets are used to overload the body's normal iodine content so that it won't accept additional, radioactive isotopes of iodine, one of the byproducts of the nuclear meltdown at the Japanese plants...

The Mountain Home Tigers showed their youth last week in losing both games of their conference series against the Nampa Bulldogs. Bulldogs 4, Tigers 3 (8 innings) Mountain Home saw an early 2-0 lead fall by the wayside as the Nampa Bulldogs battled back to beat the Tigers 4-3 last Thursday in Mountain Home...

The Mountain Home Lady Tigers opened their SIC 4A conference schedule with wins over Bishop Kelly and Emmett last week. Mountain Home 7, Bishop Kelly 5 Mountain Home battled from behind to take the lead from Bishop Kelly last Tuesday and then held on for a 7-5 win at Memmelaar Field in Mountain Home...

Mountain Home hosted Nampa in a dual track meet to kick off its track season Friday and won both the girls and boys competition. Mountain Home dominated the girls competition,winning all 18 events and racking up 137 points to just 8 for Nampa. Dakota Barrie was in on four first-place finishes, winning both the 100-meter and 300-meter hurdles, and also was a member of the winning 4x100-meter and 4x400-meter relay teams...

The Mountain Home Tiger boys and girls tennis teams both won at Jerome Friday. Earlier in the week, the Tigers lost conference matches against Columbia and Skyview. Wildcat Girls 5, Lady Tigers 2 Wildcat Boys 6, Tigers 1 Mountain Home opened its season at Columbia on March 14 and lost to the Wildcats in both the girls' and boys' matches...

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