1+ day, 15+ hour ago  (392+ words) Mountain Home Public Schools staff would get up to 12 weeks of paid parental leave under policy changes the school board considers Thursday. The board meets at 6 p.m. Thursday, July 16, in the Administration Building Board Room. Two agenda items update the district’s…...

6+ day, 15+ hour ago  (114+ words) Mountain Home Observer First Community Bank will host a free pool party for kids and their families Thursday, July 23, at the Community Aquatic Center in Mountain Home. The event runs from 6 to 8 p.m. and is part of the bank’s Squirrel Squad,…...

3+ week, 15+ hour ago  (619+ words) Arkansas is accusing social gaming platforms Roblox and Discord of profiting from putting children at risk of sexual predation in a lawsuit filed by Attorney General Tim Griffin earlier this month. The June 11 lawsuit filed in a Los Angeles trial…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (308+ words) A group of young teens recently walked out of the Schliemann Center for Women’s Health with something most of their classmates do not have: the training to keep a child alive in an emergency. They were the latest graduates of…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago  (380+ words) Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders and the Arkansas Department of Health launched a statewide campaign May 6 to connect pregnant women and new mothers with care available at local Arkansas Health Units. The “Claim Your Care” campaign aims to help women find…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago  (340+ words) Rhonda “Tink” Albright and Richard Taffner of Gassville have been named the 2026 Baxter County Farm Family of the Year, recognition for one of the area’s most active community volunteers and longtime public servants. Albright is a familiar name in Baxter…...

4+ mon, 5+ day ago  (704+ words) The Mountain Home Public Schools Board of Education took up an uncomfortable topic at its Feb. 19 meeting, with board member Marsha Partney reading aloud a state law that makes it illegal to verbally abuse school employees and calling for stricter…...

4+ mon, 1+ week ago  (348+ words) Sara Fischer had a sleeping puppy tucked under her table Thursday at the Girls with Goals career fair at Arkansas State University Mountain Home, and it was hard for passersby to resist taking a peek. The puppy, a nearly 14-week-old…...

5+ mon, 1+ week ago  (562+ words) School board member Jason Schmeski asked the district to schedule a work session with high school staff to discuss whether Mountain Home High School should move away from block scheduling, saying he wants to explain directly to teachers why he…...

5+ mon, 1+ week ago  (912+ words) A group of kindergartners sat cross-legged on numbered circles in the counseling room at Mountain Home Kindergarten on Monday morning, thumbs at the ready, as school counselor Sharla Patrick walked them through the finer points of right and wrong. “If…...