Stories from Thursday, May 22, 2014

A Mountain Home tradition resumes Saturday as the community celebrates this year's Crazee Daze festival. Sponsored by the Mountain Home Chamber of Commerce, the event fosters the spirit of community involvement, according to festival organizers. In recent years, Crazee Days returned to its roots, so to speak, by restoring many of the "old day" attractions that made it so popular, according to representatives from the Mountain Home Chamber of Commerce. ...

Finishing its fifth full year at its new campus, Richard McKenna Charter High School will celebrate the graduation of nine students during a ceremony Saturday morning. The commencement begins at 10 a.m. at the Church of the Nazarene, 950 N. 7th East St...

The annual Patriot Thunder fundraiser for area military charities will not be coming to Mountain Home. In the past, the event saw hundreds of bikers traveling from the High Desert Harley-Davidson shop in Meridian to Mountain Home, raising money for Operation Warmheart on base, the Guard and Reserve Family Support Fund and the Waykin Warriors project...

A lasso thrown by Peyton Reynolds finds its mark as the youngster practices his skills during a kindergarten rodeo held Thursday at North Elementary School. Students from the school's morning and afternoon kindergarten classes learned the basics of riding and roping during the day's event...

Mountain Home sent seven boys and four girls to the 4A State Track & Field Championships at Dona Larsen Park in Boise over the past weekend. The Tiger boys placed in seven events to score 38 points, good for seventh place behind Skyview, which won the meet with 77.33 points...

Frank A. Morano, 63, passed away at his home on May 14, 2014, from complications of diabetes. Frank was born on Aug. 10, 1950, in Philadelphia, Pa., to Frank and Marie Morano. He always loved music and spent time in the drum and bugle corps in Philadelphia, which was a fond memory for him...