Stories from Tuesday, September 29, 2009

Bob McNamar, owner of McNamar Racing of Mountain Home, is hoping to restart a local Jaycees chapter in Mountain Home. A meeting to explore the possibility will be held Oct. 7 at 7 p.m. at Smokey Mountain Pizza. The Jaycees had formed a chapter in Mountain Home in the mid-'90s, and at one time had 93 members, but over the years membership gradually declined and the chapter dissolved...

Ronald Lee Bush, 47, of Mountain Home, passed away on Thursday, Sept. 24, 2009, at his home. Services will be held on Friday, Oct. 2, 2009, at Rost Funeral Home, McMurtrey Chapel, with a viewing at 1 p.m. and funeral services at 2 p.m. Burial with military honors will follow at Mountain View Cemetery...

William Murray won the coin toss to decide the May 19 school board election Tuesday night. After Fourth District Judge Mike Wetherell declared the election a tie last week, the disputed election went to a coin flip Tuesday night before a special meeting of the school board in the junior high commons area...