Stories from Friday, December 26, 2014

The Mountain Home Tigers won seven of eight dual wrestling matches at the Bonneville Duals in Idaho Falls over the weekend, taking second place in the team point standings. Mountain Home beat Blackfoot 58-14, Minico 62-15, Madison 69-18, Rigby 66-18, Skyline 45-37, Pocatello 52-29 and Hillcrest 84-6. The team's only loss was to Bonneville, 30-55...

Richard Koelsch, a 1998 graduate of Mountain Home High School, was part of the mission operations team that made history on Dec. 5 with the successful launch of the new Orion spacecraft atop a Delta IV rocket from the Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida...

A blown transformer was linked to a widespread power outage Christmas Eve that left more than 9,000 people in the Mountain Home area without electricity for up to nine hours. The transformer at the Elmore Substation, located about a mile north of the Danskin Power Plant, blew out around 10 p.m. Dec. 24, shutting off power to city residents and others living northeast and northwest of town, said Idaho Power spokesperson Stephanie McCurdy...

Doris Louise Loewen (Hammond), beloved wife and partner, went to be with the Lord she loved on Wednesday, Dec. 24, 2014, at a Boise hospital. A viewing will be held from 4-6 p.m., on Monday, Dec. 29, 2014, at Rost Funeral Home, McMurtrey Chapel. Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m., on Tuesday, Dec. 30, at the First Congregational Church. Burial will follow at Mountain View Cemetery in Mountain Home...