Stories from Friday, May 12, 2017

The number of students that graduated from Mountain Home High School during the last school year exceeded the state average by more than four percent, according to information released this month by the Idaho State Department of Education. During the 2015 to 2016 school year, the high school saw 83.9 percent of its students earn a diploma with the state average standing at 79.7 percent, which was a nearly one percent increase from the year prior...

The fantasy world of author Charles Lutwidge Dodgson comes to life this week as Mountain Home High School's Encore Company presents "Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland." Curtain call is 7 p.m. Thursday, May 11, in Lloyd Schiller Gymnasium with additional performances scheduled for Friday and Saturday...

Mountain Home High School's Tiger tennis team picked up a few wins in individual sets as they wrapped up this year's regular season. Mountain Home boys 1, Caldwell boys 6 Mountain Home girls 1, Caldwell girls 6 Mountain Home boys 0, Vallivue boys 7 Mountain Home girls 0, Vallivue girls 7...

Gertrude Yvonne Trippett, 90, of Indianapolis, Ind., passed away at a hospital in Indianapolis on May 11, 2017. A viewing will be held from 5 to 6 p.m. Monday, May 15, 2017, at Rost Funeral Home, McMurtrey Chapel, in Mountain Home. A Rosary will then follow at 6 p.m. with Mass held at 10 a.m. on Tuesday, May 16, 2017, at Our Lady of Good Counsel Catholic Church, and burial will follow at Mountain View Cemetery in Mountain Home...