In the years since Jim and Hillary Lowe started creating corn mazes in the fall as a way to supplement their income as farmers, a corn maze industry has grown up with them. The Lowes made their first corn maze ...
Read More »Created in Poland, 1914 log home is now for sale in Idaho
A home that was built in the Carpathian Mountains of Poland in 1914, dismantled when the Nazis came through, rebuilt, and then moved to Idaho is for sale in Careywood for $175,000. The 1,400-square-foot mountaintop home has a view of ...
Read More »Decades-old Hyde Park business to close
Certified Rug & Furniture Cleaners, a business that has occupied a central storefront space in Boise’s Hyde Park neighborhood space for 67 years, is closing. Owner Jerry Dunne has emptied out the 4,200-square-foot space that he owns on the neighborhood’s ...
Read More »A word with Jerry Goodwin, CEO of Guerdon Industries 
Jerry Goodwin is president and CEO of Guerdon Industries, the Boise-based modular building company that recently entered the modular hotel construction market. Goodwin, who studied plastics technology engineering at Western Washington University, spent 28 years in the aerospace industry before ...
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Read More »A word with Mary Nielson of Harmon Travel 
Mary Nielson is a private travel agent at Harmon Travel, a Boise business with about 20 workers that started in 1957. Nielson gets a lot of questions about how the bricks-and-mortar travel business has managed to survive the advent of ...
Read More »A word with Carrie Morgan, VP of culture and leadership at Lunchbox
Carrie Morgan holds the title of vice president of culture and leadership at Lunchbox, a waxing salon company that started in Boise in 2010 and now has 29 salons in 10 states. Morgan’s job is to create and maintain a ...
Read More »Albertsons Companies acquires the meal kit delivery service Plated 
The Boise-based grocer Albertsons Companies has acquired Plated, a New York-based meal kit delivery service that will start selling its meal kits in Albertsons stores. With 270,000 workers and more than 2,300 stores in 35 states, Albertsons is one of ...
Read More »Boise-based Neurilink purchases Seattle company 
Neurilink, a Boise company that provides video conferencing, interactive displays, digital signage and audio visual support to companies, has purchased Blue Sky Integrated Technologies of Seattle, Neurilink announced. The two companies will operate under the Neurilink brand, according to a ...
Read More »The Car Park acquires North Carolina company
The Car Park, a Boise company that manages parking at dozens of Boise locations, at the Friedman Airport in Blaine County, and in other states, has purchased the North Carolina parking company McLaurin Parking. McLaurin is a 70-year-old family-owned company, ...
Read More »A word with Shelby Bills of Graeber & Company 
Shelby Bills is a managing owner at Graeber & Company, the venerable downtown Boise salon. Bills, who grew up in Meridian, started working at Graeber when she was 15, moving to a front desk job at 19, and bought a ...
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