Stories from Thursday, June 29, 2017

The Mountain Home community will enjoy a day of music, food and fun on Tuesday as people come together to celebrate this year's Fourth of July Festival in the Park. The events begin at 8 a.m. that morning in Carl Miller Park as people begin to register for this year's "Wash and Shine Car Show."...

Two local area families are continuing to assess the damage after fires swept through their homes over the weekend. The first fire was reported around 8:15 p.m. on Friday with members of the King Hill Rural Fire District responding to a residential fire on Flock Road in Hammett...

Mountain Home Fire Chief Mark Moore issued a simple message late last week for local residents who are tempted to shoot illegal fireworks to celebrate Independence Day. Don't do it. According to state law, people are limited to using what are known as "safe and sane" fireworks. Those legal fireworks include those that don't explode or fly more than 10 feet in the air...

Budget requests and planned improvements to city facilities were among the topics addressed by the Mountain Home City Council during a public meeting June 12. The council learned that the city received an inheritance of sorts specifically earmarked for the Mountain Home Animal Shelter...

Mountain Home High School's Tigers tennis team wrapped up its annual summer tennis camp at Richard Aguirre Park on Friday. The camp, which is the primary fundraiser for the Tiger tennis team, had 19 students participating, ranging in age from 4 to 14 years old with the children and teens divided into four age groups...