Stories from Thursday, March 20, 2014

The Mountain Home Tigers opened their 2014 baseball season at Caldwell last Thursday, losing 2-1 in 10 innings to the Cougars. The Cougars got on the scoreboard first, scoring an unearned run off Tiger starter Levi Abrahamson in the second inning. The Tigers tied it in the sixth, when Jesse Cobos singled in Teddy Reaume. The score stayed at 1-1 until the Cougars were able to plate a run in the bottom of the 10th with one out to win 2-1...

The Mountain Home Lady Tigers won the second game of a non-conference softball doubleheader with Canyon Ridge Saturday to gain a split with the Lady River Hawks. Earlier in the week, the Lady Tigers dropped conference games to Middleton and Emmett. Middleton 13, Mountain Home 3...

Karen Brescia, health occupations instructor at Mountain Home High School, helps senior Abigale Chavarria take a blood pressure reading on a mannequin during a career day event held March 12 in the school gym. Representatives from various trade schools, military organizations and local businesses gathered at the high school to showcase various career opportunities during this year's event...

Honoring traditions of citizenship, leadership, character, service and scholarship, the local chapter of the National Junior Honor welcomed 65 students into the organization during a ceremony last week. Hundreds of parents packed into the Mountain Home Junior High School gym March 11 to witness the annual event, which added seventh and eighth grade students into the national organization...

James L. (Jim) Miller was born May 9, 1942, to Natalie Elmer and Don Hulse in Cincinnati, Ohio. Soon, his parents separated and his family came to Idaho. Natalie met Edward Miller, and they married. Ed adopted Jim and his older brother Don in 1951. Along came a sister, Mary, and a brother, John. Jim graduated high school from Burley High in Idaho in 1960...