Stories from Friday, May 1, 2015

McKinley Wortham, Brielle Wolfley and Lillie Modgling paint a new hop scotch court pattern on the West Elementary School playground during a community service project Saturday morning. Members of the Latter-day Saints Second Ward in Mountain Home renovated the school playground and surrounding area as part of their "Seven Days of Service" effort. ...

The Mountain Home Tigers dropped conference tennis matches on the road at Skyview and Kuna last week. Skyview Girls 7, Mountain Home Girls 0 Skyview Boys 7, Mountain Home Boys 0 The Mountain Home Tigers traveled to Skyview last Tuesday for a conference tennis match with the Hawks. Mountain Home was blanked by Skyview in both the girls and boys matches...

The Mountain Home girls and boys track squads both finished ninth at Friday's Skyview Invitational Track meet at Skyview High School in Nampa. Rigby won the girls competition, scoring 135 points. Emmett was second with 90, right ahead of Skyview's 88.5. Fourth place went to Vale, Ore., Jerome was fifth, Columbia finished sixth, Weiser was seventh while Century finished eighth,...

The former director of literature for the Idaho Commission on the Arts is the featured speaker during this year's Spring Coffee House event on May 8. Cort Conley, a noted writer and publisher, will hold a presentation on the Snake River during the event, which begins at 6:30 p.m. that day at the Best Western Foothills Inn on Highway 20...