Advertising

What are the requirements for submitting a digital ad?
The Mountain Home News is a Mac environment. If you wish to submit camera ready ads, please follow our requirements below. For more information, please contact us.

Acceptable media for disk ads: email; CD Rom

Preferred File Formats: PDF, Jpeg, Tiff
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How do I place a classified ad?
Deadline for all classifieds is Monday at 1 p.m. for the following Wednesday paper. Rates are: $9.75 for the first 15 words or less; 45¢ per word in excess of 15 words; 1/2 the price of the first week for each consecutive week with no changes.

You can either submit your ad using our online form, by calling 587-3331, or by e-mailing the following information to bfincher@mountainhomenews.com.

1. Visa or Mastercard number and expiration date

2. Name and billing address of cardholder

3. Contact phone number

4. Classified Ad text

5. The category your ad should be placed under

6. Number of weeks to run

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What are your technical ad specifications?
Ads should be produced in column widths shown below.

Ad widths allow for space between ads, therefore the width of a 4 column ad is not determined by doubling the width of a 2 column ad.

Column Widths:

1 column: 2 1/16"

2 column: 4 1/4"

3 column: 6 1/4"

4 column: 8 1/2"

5 column: 10 3/4"

6 column: 13"

Page Sizes:

Mountain Home News: 6 columns x 21.5 inches

Patriot: 6 columns x 21.5 inches

Family Line: 5 columns x 13 inches

Gazette: 5 columns x 13 inches

Please call for information on advertising guidelines for the Mountain Home News website.
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Do you have different deadlines for holidays?
Depending on the holiday, the News will have different submission deadlines. Please contact the main office at 587-3331 for more information.
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What are your advertising deadlines?
Mountain Home News: 1 p.m. Monday for Wednesday publication.

Patriot: noon Friday for Friday publication.

Family Line: 1 p.m. Wednesday for Tuesday publication.

Gazette: 1 p.m. Thursday for Tuesday publication.

Please call the office for information on holiday deadlines.

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How do I place a display ad?
Please call 208-587-3331 for display rate information.
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Submitting news for paper or website

What is your policy for submitting news items?
We are eager to serve the community and provide your news to the public. You can stop by our office, fax or email your news items.

For the print publication, send to Kelly Everitt at keveritt@mountainhomenews.com.

For the website, send to Joy Martinez at jmartinez@mountainhomenews.com. or use the forms section on the front page to submit your items.

To avoid confusion and provide equity in our coverage, the following policy guidelines have been adopted concerning what we will accept and what we won't accept. In general, stories should involve people who currently are residents of Elmore County or eastern Owyhee County.

All submissions should have a phone number and/or email address provided so that we may contact someone if we need additional information.
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Submitting news

Wedding and Engagements
At least one member of the couple must be a resident of Elmore County, or their parents must be a resident of the county. Wedding announcements will be accepted up to four months from the date of the wedding. Engagement announcements should be no earlier than within one year of the projected date of the wedding.
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Birth Announcements
Birth announcements are obtained from Elmore Memorial Hospital. Those who wish to have their announcement printed must sign a form indicating such. Births that did not occur at Elmore hospital, but which involve parents who are residents of Elmore County or eastern Owyhee County (only) may be submitted directly to the newspaper.
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First Birthday Stories
First birthday photos and stories should be submitted the week prior to publication, and should be within two weeks of the child's first birthday (either before or after).
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Obituaries
Obituaries are run free of charge as news stories in the Mountain Home News. We reserve the right to edit all submissions to conform to news style. Obituaries will be accepted if the individual lived, at any time, in Elmore County and the Bruneau/Grand View area of eastern Owyhee County, or the Duck Valley Indian Reservation, or had a substantial impact on the county through community service. Obituaries will be accepted up to one month from the time of death. We do not run poetry. We list the number of grandchildren (etc.) but not their names.
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School Honors and Awards
School honors and awards, such as graduations and honor roll lists, normally are submitted by the appropriate schools. The Mountain Home News will print any such story provided the person being honored, or their parents, are residents of Elmore County or eastern Owyhee County. In some cases, students at colleges mark a box at registration indicating a privacy request. Those names normally are not submitted by the school. They will be accepted directly from the individual or that person's parents at the news office.
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