Stories from Friday, January 31, 2014

The Mountain Home Lady Tigers dropped games to Skyview and Nampa last week in conference girls basketball. Skyview 79, Mountain Home 59 Skyview pulled away in the third quarter and kept the Lady Tigers at bay in a 79-59 conference win last Tuesday in Lloyd Schiller Gymnasium in Mountain Home...

The Mountain Home Fire Department will hold an event this Saturday, in conjunction with Walmart, to help raise funds in the battle against leukemia and lymphoma. The money being raised will be included in the total that eight members of the department will take with them to the 23rd Annual Scott Firefighter Stairclimb at Seattle's Columbia Center...

John Stanley Schloss, 77, of Mountain Home, passed away on Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2014, at a Boise hospital. Arrangements are under the direction of Rost Funeral Home, McMurtrey Chapel in Mountain Home.

John Stanley Schloss, 77, of Mountain Home, passed away peacefully on Jan. 29, 2014. A celebration of his life will be held at 1 p.m., on Wednesday, Feb. 5, t Rost Funeral Home, McMurtrey Chapel, with inurnment immediately following at Mountain View Cemetery...

Duane Harlen Palmer, 80, of Mountain Home, passed away on Monday, Jan. 27, 2014, at the Boise VA Medical Center. A viewing will be held from 4-6 p.m., on Thursday, Feb. 6, at Rost Funeral Home, McMurtrey Chapel. A funeral mass will be held at 10 a.m., on Friday, Feb. 7, at Our Lady of Good Counsel Catholic Church and burial with military honors will follow at Mountain View Cemetery...

The Bureau of Land Management's Boise District Office is offering a series of open houses to provide the public an opportunity to comment on the Paradigm Fuel Break Project Draft Environmental Assessment (EA). The open house in Mountain Home will be held on Feb. 4 at the Elks Lodge, 325 S. 3rd West St., from 6-8 p.m...