Stories from Thursday, December 19, 2013

by Alvin Powers Mountain Home News Jan. 21, 2012. An important date in Mountain Home Tiger boys basketball history. On that night, the Tigers downed the Nampa Bulldogs, 55-49. The win was Mountain Home's third in their last four games and put them at 3-11 on the season...

Mountain Home snapped a three-game losing skid with a win at Caldwell last Thursday but lost at home to Bishop Kelly on Saturday afternoon. Mountain Home 45, Caldwell 42 The Mountain Home Lady Tigers overcame a sluggish first half to rally for a 45-42 conference girls basketball win at Caldwell Thursday night...

Supporters and opponents voiced their opinions earlier this month as the city planning and zoning commission discussed a proposal to build a charter school in Mountain Home. Known as Richard McKenna Elementary School, the proposed 22,000-square-foot facility on East 8th North Street would provide classes for up to 170 students in kindergarten to sixth grade...

Hermantilde Grinnell, 86, of Mountain Home, passed away Friday, Dec. 13, 2013, after a short but courageous battle with cancer. Services were conducted at Rost Funeral Home, McMurtrey Chapel on Tuesday, Dec. 17. She was born in Munich, Germany on May 31, 1927, the eldest of two children...

Matthew R. Lindstrom, 29, pleaded guilty to an amended complaint of aiming a firearm at another person during the final of three days of preliminary hearing action that had played out over more than a month in Elmore County Magistrate Judge David Epis' courtroom...

It's something even the Jolly Green Giant could appreciate. Standing nearly as high as a single-story building, the supersized chair in Richard Aguirre Park has become a landmark of sorts. It's also had a few people scratching their heads on how it got there...

Dorothy Hansen, 98, of Mountain Home, passed away at her home on Thursday, Dec. 19, 2013. At her request, no services will be held. Cremation is under the direction of Rost Funeral Home, McMurtrey Chapel in Mountain Home. Dorothy was born on Feb. 14, 1915, in Elgin, Ore., to Hazel and Earl Arnold. Dorothy moved to Spokane, Wash., at the age of 6...