Stories from Thursday, December 4, 2014

The Mountain Home Tigers open their boys basketball season this week with three home games. Last Wednesday night the Tigers held their annual Orange and Black scrimmage, won by the Orange squad, 50-47, in overtime. Third-year Tiger head coach Brion Bethel was pleased with the number of fans that turned out for the scrimmage...

The vacant field south of the St. Luke's Elmore Medical Center has become the holding zone for 13 pieces of a modular building that will be come a specialty clinic for the hospital. The 8,600-square-foot clinic building was previously located in Fruitland, but St. Luke's completed construction on a permanent clinic there in May. At that time, the modular building was no longer needed and the building was disassembled and moved to Mountain Home to provide additional clinic space needed locally...

Mountain Home High School's Encore Company will present its winter special, "Frosty the Snowman," on Dec. 12-13 beginning at 7 p.m. in Lloyd Schiller Gymnasium. Tickets, $3 each, will be sold at the door.

Beatriz T. Anchustegui Bollinger was born in her father's Basque boarding house in Mountain Home, on April 5, 1916. She was raised by her parents, Pedro and Josefa Anchustegui, and lived, was educated and spent her entire life in Mountain Home. She passed away on Nov. 28, 2014...