Stories from Thursday, January 29, 2015

The Mountain Home Tigers came away with another split in boys basketball conference games last week, beating Bishop Kelly at home and losing at Middleton. Mountain Home 48, Bishop Kelly 46 Jarek Schetzle scored with 10 seconds left to lift the Mountain Home Tigers past the Bishop Kelly Knights in conference boys basketball last Wednesday at Mountain Home High School's Lloyd Schiller Gymnasium...

Representatives with the Mountain Home Arts Council are seeking original stories and artwork for its yearly literary journal. With its seventh volume slated for publication this fall, The Whistle Pig includes short stories, poems, memoirs, personal musings, drama, song lyrics and other short literary pieces written by people in the local area...

More than 54,000 acres of public land temporarily closed due to the Pony and Elk Complex that burned north of Mountain Home in August 2013 will remain closed to the public through April 30. In a press release on Friday, the Bureau of Land Management's Four Rivers field office announced the area will only open to non-motorized entry after April 30...

Timothy Owen McArdle, age 66, passed away at his home on Wednesday, Jan. 28, 2015 following an illness. Arrangements are under the direction of Rost Funeral Home, McMurtrey Chapel, in Mountain Home.