Stories from Thursday, May 8, 2014

The Mountain Home Tigers baseball season is done. The Tigers went into the last week of the regular season with their back to the wall as far as making it into the District III 4A Baseball Tournament. With only eight teams making into the district tourney, the Tigers were ninth but within striking distance of eighth-place Kuna. ...

The Mountain Home Lady Tigers closed out their regular season schedule with a 14-3 loss to Kuna last Wednesday at Memmelaar Field in Mountain Home. The Lady Tigers put up a run in the bottom of the first, but Kuna answered with seven runs in the second inning. Mountain Home scored twice in the third to cut it to 7-3, but Kuna got a run in the fourth and six more in the fifth to end it after five...

Members of the Elmore County Hispanic Organization's youth dancers perform a traditional dance during this year's Cinco de Mayo celebration Saturday in Carl Miller Park. Hundreds of people packed into the community park to take part in the Hispanic festivities...

City and county officials met recently in hopes of ironing out a strategy aimed at fostering economic growth around the Mountain Home area. Paula Riggs, who heads the city's economic development office, organized the April 21 meeting to identify what the city and county need to draw new businesses and industries to this part of the state...

Duane J. Silva, of Mountain Home, passed away at the St. Luke's Elmore Long Term Care Unit with dear friends Gene and Christa MacLean by his side. Duane was born July 8, 1920, on a Montana homestead, the first child of Ernest and Edith (Koon) Silva. The family moved to Malta and later to Havre, Mont. He spent two summers in the Civilian Conservation Corps before graduating from Havre High School...