Stories from Friday, January 23, 2015

The undermanned Lady Tigers played hard but lost three more conference basketball games last week. Kuna 53, Mountain Home 25 Down to just seven players due to injuries, the Lady Tigers dropped a 53-25 conference basketball game at Kuna on Jan. 13. Mountain Home trailed, 20-8, after a quarter. A meager three-point second quarter made the deficit, 35-11, at the half but extended to 49-17 after three...

The Mountain Home Tigers kept their conference dual record unblemished with a win over Bishop Kelly but dropped a non-conference match at Nampa. Mountain Home 84, Bishop Kelly 3 The Mountain Home Tigers picked up 10 pins during an 84-3 thrashing of the Bishop Kelly Knights last Tuesday in Lloyd Schiller Gymnasium in Mountain Home...

Mountain Home High School will host a business initiative in coming months that seeks to turn local area students into successful entrepreneurs. With the pilot program due to start this fall, the Young Entrepreneurs Academy program will include students ages 13 to 18 from local area schools, including those from Bennett Mountain and Richard McKenna high schools...

Lakes, streams and reservoirs remain in good shape at the start of the new year with state water supplies in some areas already above their average levels, according to a report released last week by the Natural Resources Conservation Service. Based on Idaho's surface water supply index, water totals around the state should be adequate with some exceptions for the central Idaho basins, the report stated. ...

William Sheldon Burghardt, 93, a former longtime resident of Grand View, died Jan. 9, 2015, in Gresham, Ore., after a long-term health decline. He was born Sept. 7, 1921, to William G. and Inez Burghardt in Mora, Idaho. He spent most of his younger years growing up in rural Oregon. He came back to Idaho in his teen years and worked on his dad's ranch until he enlisted in the Army Jan. 5, 1943...