Stories from Thursday, July 21, 2011

Following a nearly four-month delay, efforts to bring a community recreation center to Mountain Home started to move forward again last week. Concerns over a planned cost study, originally set to start next month, prompted a committee of local business leaders to temporarily table the recreation center plan to address the issue...

Providing alternative education for teens in the local community, Richard McKenna Charter High School started to register students from the local area Monday morning. With its first day of classes scheduled to start Aug. 1, this marks the second year the charter school will open its curriculum to all students preparing to enter grades 9 to 12...