Stories from Monday, May 30, 2016

by Tim Bondy Mountain Home News The sale of a downtown business building, construction of federally compliant access ramps and guidelines for funding local projects took center stage as the Mountain Home Urban Renewal Agency met May 16. Karla Post, the real estate agent commissioned to sell the Bealls department store building in downtown Mountain Home, said two individuals have expressed serious and prolonged interest in buying the downtown building owned by the URA...

The total number of people living in Mountain Home and surrounding communities remains on a steady decline since the 2010 census, according to information released Thursday by the U.S. Census Bureau. Statistics based on 2015 estimates calculated Mountain Home's population at 13,730, or nearly 500 fewer people than reported during the formal survey conducted in 2010...