Stories from Friday, May 17, 2013

The Mountain Home Tiger track team has qualified ten girls and six boys to this week's State 4A Track & Field Championships at Eagle High School. The state meet will be held this Friday and Saturday. The athletes qualified by their efforts at last week's District II 4A meet at Emmett...

Mountain Home tennis teams found the going tough last week at the District III 4A Tennis Championships in Caldwell. The Mountain Home girls finished eighth, winning just three matches. Tessa Pachner and Emma Wenger opened with a win before losing in the quarter-finals to the number one seed. They then won their next two matches to finish in sixth place, good enough to qualify for this week's state tourney...

From left, Terry Hodges, Scott Lindow and Hazel Hodges sort through bags of donated food before everything is loaded into trailers during the U.S. Post Office's 21st Annual Letter Carriers Food Drive across America on Saturday. Local postal workers collected 9,890 pounds of canned goods and non-perishable food during this year's effort...

Hundreds of motorcycles are expected to roll through Mountain Home the morning of June 2 during a yearly observance aimed at showing appreciation for those who serve their nation. Celebrating its fourth year, Patriot Thunder represents the state's premier military family charity motorcycle event that directly helps service members, veterans and their families, said Bruce Wong, a spokesman with the yearly event...