Stories from Wednesday, December 19, 2012

Santa Claus will be taking a break from his busy schedule to drop by the Mountain Home Public Library and spend some time with the children on Thursday, Dec. 20, at 6:30 p.m. Santa will be reading "The Night Before Christmas," written by Clement Moore. Arden Schmidt, MS Outreach consultant for the Deaf/Hard of Hearing from Idaho Educational Services for the Deaf and Blind will sign the story as Santa Reads it...

A Mountain Home woman convicted of stealing money from a local bank in 2008 was arrested earlier this month on new felony charges with her mother facing similar charges. Tammy Law, 38, and her mother, Linda Johnson, 60, each face counts of grand theft in connection with a series of thefts at the local Papa Murphy's restaurant...

Following the deaths of 26 students and teachers at a school in Connecticut, Mountain Home School District officials emphasized that procedures are in place to prevent a similar incident here. After the shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School on Friday, the district received a handful of calls from concerned parents...

The sunlight offered a bit of warmth as it broke through the cloud cover. For the small group of people that gathered at Carl Miller Park, it added some relief from the early morning chill. The crowd met at the park that morning for a single purpose -- to pay tribute to military service members across the United States...

Dear editor: I want our town to get together, and pass the word to other towns, in fact, other states, that on Christmas Eve at 4 p.m. we, as a town, gather balloons, helium balloons, and meet in the parking lot across from Kurlys bar to release our balloons in the sky as a gift of love and support to the children whose lives were cut short in that tragic event back east...

Dear editor: Among my souvenirs of life, is an old green-handled screwdriver that use to ride in my first car, a 1957 Chevy, and whenever I see it, it always takes me back over 40 years to a simpler and better time in my life, and in the life of what used to be this country...

Dear editor: FYI -- the Feds are checking if there was any connection to a gun range or gun shop -- they are looking for any reason to support any idea that guns should not be owned to by private citizens. On CNN last night Piers Morgan let go on a gentlemen representing a pro gun stance. ...

Dear editor: I'm sure I looked like a grooty bag lady when I entered the restaurant, but I just had to pick up a few things at the store and who dresses up for that? Finding a forgotten gift card in my wallet, I decided to treat myself to lunch, disregarding the spot of soot on the sleeve of my 30-year-old sweater...

Dear editor: A terrible tragedy in Conneticut and I feel guilty. Watch MSNBC and you will be pretty sure only the gun was involved. I live in Idaho and I feel guilty. We must guard against this kind of terrible mistake. We have systematically removed God from our society and our schools and who do we turn to in this tragic hour? God of course. Why not just keep him around?...

Dear editor: To the white house turncoats, and other traitors -- With the breakdown of civilization, the gods of hate and discontent, violence, rape, murder, sodomy, incest, porno, child or adult, decadence, moral depravity, chaos, lunacy, deception and corruption are gaining notoriety, thanks to the traitorous biased media, and now the White House has sanctioned sodomy, for more votes no doubt...

The Elmore County Sheriff's Office civil and driver's license departments will close at noon Dec. 25 and 31. Both offices will remain closed Christmas Day and New Year's Day but will resume normal business hours Dec. 26 and Jan. 2.