Stories from Friday, October 10, 2014

The Mountain Home Tigers traveled to Canyon Springs Golf Course in Twin Falls last Wednesday for the Dani Bates Invitational cross country meet, where the Tiger boys finished 13th and the girls were 15th. Highland of Pocatello won the boys race with 71 points. Idaho Falls finished second with 83. Kuna was third with 100, followed by Rigby at 106, Spring Creek with 127, Elko 182, Twin Falls 207, Kimberly 268, Jerome 272, Burley 334, Valley 336, Wood River 338 and Mountain Home 13th, with 363...

The Mountain Home Tigers split their boys conference soccer games last week, losing to the Knights at Bishop Kelly, but bouncing back to blank the Middleton Vikings at home. Bishop Kelly 5, Mountain Home 1 The Tigers fell to the Bishop Kelly Knights 5-1 Monday in conference boys soccer at Bishop Kelly...

The Atlanta Highway District began temporary repairs last week along a six-mile section of the Middle Fork Boise River road that was washed out by a late summer mudslide at Big Five Creek (mile marker 38). A gated closure is in place due to planned heavy construction traffic between mile marker 34 (Loftus Hot Springs) and mile marker 40 (Alexander Flat and the Road Creek trail just west of the junction of Forest Road 376)...

Last year's second-grade students in the Mountain Home School District showed significant improvement in their reading capabilities, according to state tests. Curriculum Directory Sherri Ybarra believes the Read With Ruffy program helped a lot in achieving a 10 percent drop in students needing special help in reading and a 12 percent increase in overall efficiency, according to the Idaho Reading Indicator test taken in May...