Stories from Thursday, February 14, 2002

Rosella More will be honored Friday at the Citizen of the Year by the Mountain Home Community Black History Committee during the group's 14th annual Black History Banquet, which will be held Friday, Feb. 15, at the Elk's Lodge in Mountain Home. The event, one of the larger community banquets of the year, annually honors a member of the local black community for their contributions to Mountain Home and Elmore County...

The Mountain Home School District, facing a massive loss of funding from state and federal sources that could amount to up to 10 percent of its total budget, will probably close a school on base before classes begin next fall. Declining federal forest funds, delays by Congress in approving federal Impact Aid money, and anticipated cuts in state funding (which constitute the bulk of the district's budget) is likely to leave the district $800,000 to $1.2 million short of the district's current budget next year, Supt. ...