Stories from Thursday, March 7, 2013

The Mountain Home Tigers open their baseball season with road games Thursday and Friday. Mountain Home Tiger head baseball coach Mark Cotton said this year's turnout for high school baseball was a bit low, but they have good players. "The turnout was low. As far as just numbers, we only had about 28 kids come out to try out, and that's never a good thing, but we have a really good core group of players...

On Monday afternoon, representatives with American Legion Post 26 stopped by Hacker Middle School to emphasize the meaning of patriotism and the significance of the American flag. Members of the Mountain Home post continued a tradition that at one pointed remained absent in the local schools for years...

The sounds of drums fill the air as the members of the music group On Ensemble perform during a concert at Mountain Home High School's Lloyd Schiller Gymnasium on Friday. The Los Angeles-based quartet shared their unique blend of traditional instruments and modern sounds to an audience of more than 90 people during last week's concert...

Gary W. Kellum, 60, of Mountain Home, Idaho, and formerly of Friendswood, Texas, died March 1, 2013, at a local hospital. Arrangements by Boise Funeral Home, Aclesa Chapel.

Kenneth Irving DeThorne, 74, of Mountain Home passed away Feb. 23, 2013, at Ashley Manor, Mountain Home from cancer. Memorial services officiated by Pastor Gary Allen will be held at 1 p.m. on Saturday, March 23, 2013, at Rost Funeral Home, McMurtrey Chapel...

Baudilla "Nen" Alegre Daly, 70, of Mountain Home passed away on Dec. 20, 2012, at a local care center. A memorial service will be held at Rost Funeral Home, McMurtrey Chapel, at 10 a.m. Saturday, March 23, 2013.