Stories from Thursday, May 12, 2011

Mountain Home's letter carriers will do more than deliver the mail Saturday -- they'll also be collecting food on their routes to donate to local feed banks. May 14 is the annual letter carriers food drive across America. Postal customers wishing to donate food should put canned, packaged and non-perishable food items in a plastic bag, and leave it by your mailbox on Saturday, May 14, before mail delivery...

After closing out the regular season with a split of their conference games with Middleton, the Tigers opened district tourney play Saturday at Kuna. Tigers 12, Vikings 11 An eight-run second inning gave Mountain Home a lead they would hang on to for a 12-11 conference baseball win over the Middleton Vikings last Tuesday at the Mountain Home field...

The Mountain Home Lady Tigers closed out their regular season softball schedule with two wins in three games last week. Lady Tigers 12, Lady Wildcats 6 The Mountain Home Lady Tigers erupted for six runs in the sixth inning to down Columbia 12-6 last Tuesday in conference softball at Memmelaar Field in Mountain Home...

An Wendell man living illegally in the United States will spend at least eight years in prison for his role in the deaths of four people in Elmore County last August. Eusebio J. Pineda was sentenced to a determinate time of two years in prison, to be served consecutively, on each of four counts of vehicular manslaughter during his sentencing May 2 in District Court...

Encore Company's final production of the season is "Scooby Doo!" Performances are set for this Thursday through Saturday at 7 p.m. in the high school gym. Tickets are sold at the door. The cost is $3 for students and $5 for adults. Encore Company is the high school drama department's theater production group...

Plans to grant a local church temporary approval to use a building for its new ministry remained on hold after the Mountain Home City Council voted against the measure. During a public meeting Monday evening, the council rejected a recommendation by the city's planning and zoning commission to grant the No-Limits Christian Ministries a temporary conditional use permit...

Loraine Gjording Vosper passed away peacefully in her sleep in the early morning on April 4. Born May 1, 1918 in Glenns Ferry, Idaho, Loraine was one of four children, along with her brothers Royal, Jack and Paul. She graduated from the University of Oregon where she met her husband, Robert Gordon Vosper. ...

Photo description: A photo of our awesome dog, Bare being a goofball!