Stories from Thursday, March 12, 2015

Not since 1980 had the Mountain Home Tigers won any games at a boys' state basketball tournament. Although their ultimate goal of a first-ever state championship for Mountain Home in basketball got detoured in the semi-finals, the Tigers bounced back to come home with the third-place trophy from the 4A State Tournament at Borah High School in Boise...

Class competitions and friendly rivalries will take center stage next week as Mountain Home High School presents "Carnage on the Courts." Scheduled to start at 6 p.m. March 18 in Lloyd Schiller Gymnasium at the high school, the "battles" will help secure bragging rights for the wizards of the hardwood or the masters of the mat...

The Idaho Department of Fish and Game is looking for volunteers to help plant bitterbrush and sagebrush vegetation in the Little Sage Hen Flat area north of Mountain Home. The March 28 effort will help Fish and Game rehabilitate sage grouse lek sites that sustained heavy damage due to range fires that swept through the area in recent years...

Officer Ty Larsen, school resource advisor with the city police department, reads to students from North Elementary School during the school's Dr. Seuss Read-In event on March 2. Students and their families were invited to listen and watch as volunteers from Mountain Home Air Force Base acted out stories in the school's music room while community members read their favorite Dr. ...

Mountain Home High School's student council has postponed this weekend's donkey basketball game at Hacker Middle School. The game, which is expected to feature teams of students, faculty and others in the local community, is now set for April 27 at the middle school.