Stories from Thursday, May 11, 2017

Three students from Hacker Middle School and another from West Elementary School received an up-close look at how city and county agencies function after they became honorary community leaders on Friday. Ava O’Donnell was selected as the Mountain Home's mayor for the day while Jose Barroso was named the city's honorary police chief...

Local area students earned a variety of honors for academic and athletic excellence during the Elks lodge's annual youth awards banquet May 1. More than 200 honorees and their families gathered at the Mountain Home Elks Lodge during this year's event...

After playing the past two years with the Mountain Home Tigers varsity football squad, one of the team's running backs was recently selected to play the sport as part of an international athletic competition. Austin Tetrault will represent Idaho as he joins a nearly 40-person team during the Down Under Sports Tournament starting in mid-June...

Constance "Connie" Ann Hoselton was born June 7, 1943, in Marshall, Mich., as the oldest of three children to Charles A. and H. Mae Shaffer. Connie was a long-time resident of Boise. After graduating from Mountain Home High School in 1961, she married and raised three children...