Stories from Wednesday, June 15, 2016

A community plaza located in downtown Mountain Home could serve as the catalyst to give the city a needed economic and tourism boost, according to findings released Thursday by the head of an international community development organization. Roger Brooks met with city and county leaders, school officials and local business owners to present his findings following a visit to Mountain Home earlier in the week...

State health and wildlife officials issued an advisory late last week after a second cat in Elmore County likely died from the plague just days after the virus killed another. The cat lived approximately two miles from Mountain Home in an area not previously identified with confirmed plague...

One by one, people stepped onto the designated pathway at Carl Miller Park. Splitting off into two groups, Curtis Carlin led the first procession one way while the second group took the opposite route. Meeting somewhere around the halfway point, the simple stroll along the gravel pathway was a symbolic gesture of sorts. ...

Dear editor, I'm writing in regards to the recent increase in cost to people who wish to swim in the Mountain Home Swimming Pool. The rates have not been increased for some years, but raising them 100 percent from one summer to the next is ludicrous. Parks & Recreation should feel ashamed...

Dear editor, If a community has a shared conscience, it is most revealed in the government agencies we create to serve us. in allowing those agencies to collect our taxes, we ask them to examine carefully our combined (and occasionally individual) needs and to spend those resources thoughtfully in an attempt to address those needs...

Local firefighters joined a crew from the Bureau of Land Management to battle a brush fire Tuesday afternoon. The fire was reported around 3:25 p.m. in the vicinity of Northeast Lariat Lane with the winds moving it southeast toward Mountain Home Reservoir...

An airman from Mountain Home Air Force Base was found dead at his residence in Mountain Home on Tuesday. Senior Airman Derek Keysor, 27, was discovered by squadron leadership, who visited his home around 5 p.m. that afternoon after he was reported absent from his duty section.