Stories from Monday, August 20, 2007

Mountain Home native, Curly Surles, teamed up with country music legends such as Kitty Wells, Jean Shepard and Little Jimmy Dickens as well as other Grand Ole Opry musicians to put out a new album in late July. The military brought Surles to Mountain Home in the late 1950s. He started playing at Joe's Club and at John's Barn...

Just before 3 p.m. on Friday afternoon, the Mountain Home Rural Fire District responded to a vehicle fire where a 1984 29-foot Pace Arrow motorhome was engulfed in flames. The fire briefly closed Highway 30 near the Desert Winds Chevron station and Burger King restaurant and was also responsible for starting a brush fire nearby...