Owyhee Avalanche

12/12/2024

OHR gift drive winding down
Just as there are only so many days left to get your Christmas shopping done, there are only a few days remaining for the community's Santas to bring in gifts for the residents at Owyhee and Health and Rehabilitation into The Owyhee Avalanche office at 19 E. Idaho Ave.
The newspaper's annual gift drive for OHR ends on Wednesday.
The office is open from 8 a.m., to noon and from 1 p.m., to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday.
There are other opportunities to make community members' Christmases brighter in both Homedale and Marsing.
In Homedale, the annual Wish Tree to get gifts and warm clothing for Homedale School District children continues.
Wednesday is the final day to fill a tag and return the present, wrapped or unwrapped, to the location from which the tag was acquired.
Wish trees with gift tags are located at The Bowling Alley, Albertsons, Moxie Java, the post office, and Snake River Ranch and Lumber.
In Marsing, the Giving Tree effort continues until Monday. Gifts filling corresponding tags found on trees at community businesses must be returned by then/
Giving Trees are set up at Marsing City Hall, OC Coffee, and M&W Market.

12/11/2024

Death notices and obituaries at www.owyhee.com and in this week's edition of The Owyhee Avalanche:

Robert "Bob" Louis Bridgedale
Danville, Calif.
1951 Homedale High School graduate
William "Bill" Wallace Deal
Meridian
Father of Homedale High School baseball coach Burke Deal
Grandfather to three HHS graduates

Marlin Leon Gaines
1963 Marsing High School graduate

Jennifer Redford
Nampa

12/11/2024

Stories to look for in The Owyhee Avalanche
• Photos from Marsing night light parade
• Homedale library quilt raffle in final days
• Time running out to participate in OHR gift drive
• Rimrock boys' basketball off to unbeaten start

12/11/2024

Homedale City Council meeting update
The Homedale City Council's public hearing on the commercial split application filed by Jacksons Food Stores representatives will be followed by the council's vote on the request.
The article in this week's edition of The Owyhee Avalanche was written with context from an outdated council meeting agenda.
City Clerk and Treasurer Alice Pegram told the Avalanche this morning that a decision is scheduled after the public hearing tonight.
The meeting takes place at 6 p.m., inside the council chambers at City Hall.

12/04/2024

Marsing night light parade set Friday
The Marsing Chamber of Commerce kicks off a busy weekend in town with the night light parade through downtown at 6 p.m., on Friday.
The procession concludes at Island Park where the city's Christmas decorations will be illuminated for the first time this year.
All the details are available in this week's edition of The Owyhee Avalanche.

12/04/2024

New coach, same tournament
The annual Ardis Nash Memorial wrestling tournament for girls will be held in Homedale on Friday and Saturday.
The girls' tournament and a tournament at Capital High School in Boise on the same two days mark the beginning of Luke Crockett's tenure as Trojans' coach.

12/04/2024

Death notices and obituaries at www.owyhee.com and in the Dec. 4 edition of The Owyhee Avalanche:

Gary Lee Drake
Nampa
Lived on Sinker Creek as a child until 1943

Riley William (Bill) Howell
Homedale

Gary Stephen Kohring
Twin Falls
Formerly Bruneau resident

12/04/2024

Stories to look for in The Owyhee Avalanche
• Photos from Homedale's holiday parade and tree lighting
• Grand View holiday parade planned
• Steinmeyer, Ferdinand score big in all-conference football
• Former BSU wrestler ready to lead Trojans

11/27/2024

Homedale readies for night light parade
The Homedale Chamber of Commerce is making the final preparations for Saturday's night light parade, which precedes the city Christmas tree lighting at Bette Uda City Park.
Everyone is welcome to participate in the parade. No pre-registration is necessary. Just show up at 5:30 p.m., on East Owyhee Avenue in front of Tolmie's Ace Hardware and get in line.
The parade starts at 6 p.m., and heads west on Owyhee Avenue before turning south on North 3rd Street West and then east on Idaho Avenue.

11/27/2024

Death notices and obituaries at www.owyhee.com and in the Nov. 27 edition of The Owyhee Avalanche:

Ruth N. Cooper
Homedale

EllaMay Zillig Jorgenson
Jerome
Grew up in Homedale

Sybil Irene Morris
Lifelong Marsing resident
2002 Marsing High School graduate

Robert "Bob" Eugene Sonke
Homedale

Stories to look for in The Owyhee Avalanche • Photos from public safety visit to Homedale Elementary • Sheriff commends two deputies • Bazaar season is around the corner • Rimrock closes in on football title Markets

11/27/2024

Also on www.owyhee.com:
The Adrian High School football team travels to Bend, Ore., on Saturday to take a shot at another 1A Oregon eight-man state championship.

11/27/2024

Stories to look for in The Owyhee Avalanche
• What the county's third-graders are thankful for
• Fair board applications sought from Marsing
• OHR gift drive ongoing
• East-West Shrine all-star game cancelled

11/24/2024

Sugar-Salem does it again
Sugar-Salem prevailed for the fifth time in the past eight years in a head-to-head matchup with Homedale for a football state championship.
The Diggers scored on a fourth-quarter fumble in the end zone to seize control in a 28-14 victory.

11/23/2024

Trojans tied heading to fourth
Rafael Cuenca raced 63 yards with a Xavier Uranga pass and Lukas Hall kicked the PAT to tie the score 14-14 at the end of the third quarter of the 4A Milk Bowl.

11/23/2024

Trojans trail at halftime
Luke Henry caught a short pass from Xavier Uranga for an early lead, but Sugar-Salem has run to a 14-7 lead at halftime of the 4A Milk Bowl state championship game Saturday in Middleton.