Stories from Friday, September 16, 2011

A nationwide effort is helping the Mountain Home Public Library to not only upgrade its inventory of computers, but also overhaul its access to online resources. Over the past two months, contractors replaced the library's older communication lines with high-speed fiber optic cables, giving it a nearly 20-fold increase in Internet connectivity...

Sarah DeVore's zoology class react as they meet with Rowan, a two-year-old alpaca, as Austin Lucas explains the traits of the animal during his presentation Monday afternoon. The cria, or baby, alpaca was one of a handful of farm animals that students in the zoology class brought to Mountain Home High School as part of their reports on their myriad of pets under their care...

The Mountain Home girls won Friday's Wood River Invitational cross country meet in Sun Valley. The Lady Tigers won with 38 points. Twin Falls and Jerome both had 64 points, Kimberly had 94, Wood River 113, Canyon Ridge 116 and Buhl 194. Keesha Janis Gibson led the Mountain Home girls, finishing fourth with a time of 23 minutes, 4.14 seconds. ...

The Mountain Home Lady Tigers dropped a 4-0 conference soccer game to Kuna last Thursday at Eastside Park. Mountain Home was unable to get a ball in the net. C.J. Bish had 25 saves on goal as goal keeper. Mountain Home girls soccer coach Stephen Speak saw some positives from the game...