Stories from Monday, May 8, 2017

Max Dorsey and his sister, Metta, join the Elmore County Hispanic Organization folkloric dancers as they perform at the Mountain Home Public Library on Thursday. The library hosted a number of activities geared specifically for the community's younger generation as part of this year's Día de los Niños, or Day of the Child celebration. Along with the ECHO dancers, members of the Blackfoot Quetzalcoatl Aztec dance group held a separate performance that afternoon...

Mayor Rich Sykes is joined by Mountain Home Elks Lodge representatives Exalted Ruler Loren Ford, Esquire Christina Ford, William Lamb, Hoop Shoot Chairman Larry Fincher, Lecturing Knight Stacey Swenson and Mark Wetherell as he prepares to sign a proclamation declaring May 1 to 7 as Youth Week in Mountain Home. ...

​Kaston Palmer retrieves a ball as his fellow teammates prepare to duke it out during the championship round of Mountain Home High School's annual dodgeball tournament, held April 21 in Lloyd Schiller Gymnasium. Teams gathered during the evening in the spirit of friendly competition and to walk away with bragging rights...

Students from Travis Henke's classroom douse West Elementary School Principal Nikki Cruser with Silly String on Friday after the fourth graders collected the most box tops and soup labels during a recent challenge among the classrooms. In one month, the students collected approximately 1,000 Box Tops for Education coupons along with Campbell Soup labels...

Francis Elizabeth Diskey went home to be with our Lord on May 2, 2017. Francis was born Jan. 21, 1934, in Juniata, Pa. She was an independent person her whole life, leaving home as a young adult and making her own way in the world at a fairly young age...