Mountain Home News

In winter 2011, to celebrate their first new music in three years, Julian Koster, Robbie Cucchiaro and friends staged the Lullaby Tour, a three-month special delivery of The Music Tapes' Purim's Shadows EP to more than 200 homes across the country, from Mountain Home, Ark., to the band's own home base in Athens, Ga.

Mother Nature is turning up the heat this week. Surface high pressure over the Ozarks yesterday is now to our southeast.

The couple will wed on Saturday, May 11th, 2013 by Assistant Pastor Coach Bill Hughes of Mountain Home Baptist Church.

A Mountain Home, Ark. man faces drug charges after a deputy found suspected drug paraphernalia in the man's vehicle during a traffic stop.

A yard sale to benefit Mountain Home Flyers Youth Wrestling Club is set 7 a.m.-4 p.m. today and 7 a.m. to noon Saturday at 1808 Becker St.

Only students majoring in journalism and mass communication are eligible. Membership is by invitation only by one of the society's 94 campus chapters and is based solely on scholarship and character.

The Baxter Bulletin honors the top 10 students graduating from Norfork High School in 2013.

Mountain Home Bomber soccer player Justin Linck is the recipient of the Jim Holsted Athlete of the Week Award for the week ending May 17.

After accepting three guilty pleas Thursday in Baxter County Circuit Court, Judge Gordon Webb sentenced three defendants to prison time.

The May schedule of Mountain Home city government public meetings has been announced by City Clerk Brian Plumlee.

Fans of ghost hunting and things that go bump in the night can learn more about reported paranormal happenings at Lake Norfork Inn when SyFy's "Haunted Collector" airs a segment filmed at the Henderson resort earlier this year.

Ticket sales are underway for Splash into Spring, an annual luncheon and fashion show benefiting the cancer patients of CARTI/Mountain Home scheduled for 11 a.m. May 7 at Big Creek Golf and Country Club.

FERA, RRP, WPA, CCC -- all acronyms from the depression years of the 1930s. They were agencies created by Presidents Herbert Hoover and Franklin D. Roosevelt in their war on the Depression, drought and desperation.

The Food Bank of North Central Arkansas and the Arkansas Hunger Relief Alliance announced Friday that Mountain Home Public Schools has won first in a Spirit of Giving Contest it participated in last December.

Of the 98 cases against 58 defendants, 48 were for various traffic offenses, 29 were for contempt, seven were for alcohol-related offenses, two were for shoplifting, two were for battery, two were for disorderly conduct, two were for thefts, one was for drug-related offenses, one was for violating miscellaneous ordinances, one was for criminal ... (more)

The sale includes an assortment of vegetables, herbs, berries, annuals, perennials, house plants and shrubs.

Arkansas State University-Mountain Home recently received a $6,000 grant from the South Shore Foundation for program upgrades that will give students the skills needed for a variety of positions in technical fields.

Mountain Home High School FBLA recently competed at the State FBLA Leadership Conference in Little Rock, with 47 attending The chapter came home with several awards.

Two Girl Scouts from Mountain Home -- each with 12 years of experience in Scouting -- were presented the Girl Scout Gold Award Saturday in Little Rock from the Diamonds of Arkansas, Oklahoma and Texas Girl Scout Council.

In a short Baxter County Circuit Court session Thursday, Judge John Putman sent three people to prison, and accepted a not-guilty plea from Ron Rhodes, a former Mountain Home alderman accused of plotting to firebomb the car of a man he had disagreements with.