Stories from Sunday, December 20, 2015

Two students from the Mountain Home community were honored by the Veterans of Foreign Wars during a ceremony last week. Henry Bergstol won the local VFW post's annual Voice of Democracy contest while Audrey Ralphs took top honors in the local Patriot Pen essay contest...

Non-profit organizations in Mountain Home and surrounding communities received nearly $11,000 in financial support through grants provided by the Idaho Community Foundation. The six local organizations were among 118 across central and southwestern Idaho selected by the foundation's regional grants panel that divided nearly $221,000 in financial support to these agencies...

It's a tradition at the Mountain Home News each Christmas to print letters submitted to Santa Claus by local area children. These wish lists were collected with the help of the "elves" at the Mountain Home Fire Department, who were designated by Santa to help answer letters sent to the North Pole...