Stories from Wednesday, December 6, 2017

In the early morning of Dec. 2, 124 children gathered at the Mountain Home Elk's Lodge. They were brought together for a day of holiday cheer as the 20th Annual Mountain Home Shop with a Cop event got underway. For the full story, pick up a copy of the Mountain Home News or click on this link to subscribe to the newspaper's online edition...

In spring of this year Mountain Home Chief of Police Nick Schiltz and Elmore County Sheriff Mike Hollingshead brought their law enforcement agencies together to form the Elmore County Task Force. In spring of this year Mountain Home Chief of Police Nick Schiltz and Elmore County Sheriff Mike Hollingshead brought their law enforcement agencies together to form the Elmore County Task Force...

We all remember sitting in history class, learning about the abolishment of slavery and the civil rights movement in the U.S., but what about international human rights? The international human rights movement, which had been active for some time, gained traction in 1948 when the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, a document known as humanity's Magna Carta to Eleanor Roosevelt, on Dec. 10...

I wanted to take this opportunity to thank our advertisers and readers that support the Mountain Home News, The Mountain Home Patriot, mountainhomenews.com and the Family Line. We are a small business like many of our neighbors. We appreciate our subscribers to the Mountain Home News and the advertisers in all our publications and on our website. Without our advertisers and subscribers, we would not be in business and able to do our jobs...

I like to give my appreciation to our outstanding first responders, Elmore County Sheriff's Department, Mountain Home Fire Department and our outstanding Extrication Rescue Department, Mountain Home Police Department, Mountain Home Search and Rescue and our local Ambulance Service. They are always there for all of us 24/7. We can always depend on their unselfish service. We are fortunate there none finer. Thank you!...