Stories from Sunday, February 20, 2011

It's that time of year again when more and more people are walking and even riding bikes in the community, and that has caused the city police to advise drivers to be cautious. "The traffic in and around Mountain Home continues to increase (and) while pedestrians cannot impede flowing traffic or dart out in front of a vehicle, the chance that this may happen still exists," noted Sgt. Rick Viola of the Mountain Home Police Department...

The Whistle Pig, Elmore County's literary journal, is seeking writing and art submissions for its third volume, slated for publication in Fall 2011. The journal accepts original short stories, poems, memoirs, personal musings, drama, song lyrics, and other short literary pieces, as well as a variety of visual art such as drawing, paintings, and photography...

We arrived here to Mountain Home in 2009, from Spangdahlem Germany. Our first thought of our new city was "where is it?" I had come from a larger city in Ohio, and my wife had come from a small town in PA. But after we got over the initial size of our city, we made it our home. ...