Stories from Thursday, February 15, 2018

In an effort to raise awareness for mental health, four students who are members of the Health Occupation Students of America, HOSA, are raising money for the National Alliance on Mental Illness. In pairs of two, the students have been visiting businesses and giving away rocks with information about NAMI as well as mental health statistics. 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...

The Feb. 9 meeting of the Elmore County Commissioners was a busy one with an update from Central District Health Department in the morning and the continuance of the public hearing for the development agreement between the county and Cat Creek Energy LLC in the afternoon...

Things are running smoothly for the City of Mountain Home and the Feb. 12 meeting of Mountain Home City Council was quick, but productive. In the consent agenda, a multitude of items were quickly approved including the leasing of city property to the Elmore Sportsman Association for an archery range, the leasing of self-check out machines for the library and the annual loan renewal of the F-111A aircraft on display at Carl Miller Park. ...

Promoting the theme of "African Americans in times of war", the Mountain Home Community Black History Committee will be hosting its 29th Annual Black History Banquet on Feb. 16 at the Elk's Lodge. Social hour begins at 6:30 p.m., with dinner being served at 7:15 p.m...

The Mountain Home High School wrestling team is a small, but formidable group of student athletes. The team is sitting at 9-20 in Duals this year, but that has more to do with the size of the team than the talent of the group. Since the team is so small, they do not have a full lineup which causes them to forfeit several weight classes each week...

Presidential Proclamation Honoring the Victims of the Tragedy in Parkland, Florida