Chocolate maker testing out sales on air force base 
POSTED: Friday, May 4, 2012 at 01:38 PM PTBY: Brad Iverson-Long
Tags: chocolate, Military, Mountain Home Air Force Base, Patrick Nauman, Retailers, Weiser Classic Cand
Weiser Candy Company’s headquarters and factory sits at one edge of the Treasure Valley, an hour-plus drive northwest for most valley residents. In an effort to reach more customers and try out new store concepts, the company opened a second location on the opposite side of the valley, on the Mountain Home Air Force Base. [...]
Mountain Home: ‘It’s a matter of getting business in here’
POSTED: Wednesday, June 8, 2011 at 11:26 AM PTBY: Jennifer Gonzalez
Tags: City of Mountain Home, Mountain Home Air Force Base, Paula Riggs
It’s Paula Riggs’ job to help attract and recruit new businesses to Mountain Home. Mountain Home’s economic development director said while the city’s economy is starting to show small signs of recovery, there’s plenty of available storefront and vacant retail space. “It’s a matter of getting business in here,” Riggs said. “We used to have [...]
Mountain Home businesses appreciate, try not to worry about, Air Force volume
POSTED: Wednesday, August 4, 2010 at 02:20 PM PTBY: Brad Carlson
Tags: City of Mountain Home, Mountain Home Air Force Base
K.R. Reinschmidt, an auto dealer in Mountain Home for 21 years, has learned not to worry too much about the ups and downs at Mountain Home Air Force Base. “I’ve just had to not overreact. I just have to get up in the morning and work as hard as I can,” the Performance Chevrolet [...]
Idaho won’t get an initial share of new F-35 fighter
POSTED: Friday, July 30, 2010 at 07:42 AM PTBY: The Associated Press
Tags: City of Boise, City of Mountain Home, Mountain Home Air Force Base
Idaho military installations won’t get an initial share of the U.S. Air Force’s new jet, the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter. Bases in Utah, Vermont and Arizona won a first installment of the single-engine jets, whose costs now run $113 million per plane. The initial list for a new F-35 mission is “disappointing,” but does not [...]
Comments due July 15 on land uses around military sites
POSTED: Wednesday, June 16, 2010 at 09:12 AM PTBY: IBR Staff
Tags: Idaho Department of Commerce, Idaho National Guard, Mountain Home Air Force Base
The Idaho Department of Commerce late this month plans meetings at which people can comment on a study impacting land surrounding two military complexes in southern Idaho. Comments on a draft joint land-use study are due July 15. The meetings, from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m., are set June 28 at the Ada County Courthouse in [...]
