Stories from Thursday, May 2, 2013

The Mountain Home Tigers dropped games to Jerome and Columbia last week to run their losing skid to five straight. Jerome 17, Mountain Home 16 Jerome 8, Mountain Home 7 Runs were plentiful as a pair of Tiger teams battled in Mountain Home last Tuesday, but Jerome escaped with a pair of one-run wins, 17-16 and 8-7...

The Mountain Home Lady Tigers came up short in two conference softball games last week, losing to Skyview and Bishop Kelly. Skyview 11, Mountain Home 8 The Lady Tigers battled Skyview tough at Skyview last Tuesday before losing to the Lady Hawks 11-8...

Selena Foster prepares to launch an attack against Rodrigo Saenz as the teen prepares to dodge the assault during a community dodgeball tournmanet April 24. Held in both gymnasiums at Mountain Home High School, the friendly competition brought together teams representing various civic and community organizations as well as student clubs...

The Bureau of Land Management released a final document last Friday outlining the environmental impact on a large-scale powerline upgrade project that's expected to run through Elmore County. The BLM released the environmental impact statement on the Gateway West Transmission Line Project more than a year after it released public comments regarding the proposed project...

Alan Moreno and Erica Melena from Bennett Mountain High School in Mountain Home plant sage brush near King Hill as part of a class project April 24. Students and faculty from the school joined forces with representatives from the Bureau of Land Management and Idaho Fish and Game Department to plant approximately 6,500 sagebrush seedlings in an area just outside King Hill that had burned during the Blair Trail Fire in 2011...