Stories from Friday, May 25, 2012

A member of Mountain Home High School's golf team placed during the 4A boys state golf tournament held last week. Brent Sexauer was the only member of the Mountain Home squad to make it to the state event. During the tournament, he carded an 81 on the first day and shot an 82 the second, which tied him for 37th place overall...

Mountain Home's top-ranked girls doubles team played hard but lost two straight matches during the 4A State Tennis Tournament on Friday. Seniors Anna Martin and Leah Riley qualified for state with their fourth-place effort at the District III 4A tournament...

Two students from Hacker Middle School earned a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to become city leaders for a day. Last Thursday, Darby Bennett was selected as the Mountain Home's honorary police chief while Liam Miller became the city's honorary fire chief...

Christy Groggett practices her flying skills during the city's second annual kite day Saturday morning at Legacy Park. Hosted by the city's parks and recreation department, 85 kites were handed out to the young -- and the young at heart -- Saturday morning...

More than a dozen students from Hacker Middle School tested their ability to build and drive made-from-scratch robots during a yearly competition May 11. Held at the University of Idaho's Engineering Expo campus in Moscow, the middle school sent three teams to this year's Mars Rover event to take on 40 teams of fifth and sixth grade students from across the state...

The Mountain Home Menagerie 4-H Club has been busy the past 2 months. Besides working on their projects, Victoria, Matthew, Kamille, and Hanna Bartlett have presented demonstrations on projects. Cassie Dearing is busy raising 3 new chickens. She bought 3 different kinds to a club meeting to show the club went on a field trip to Celebration Park south of Melba. ...