Chamber’s Halloween gala brings Mountain Home its first $10,000 reverse drawing

The Mountain Home Area Chamber of Commerce will hold its Cabaret of Curiosities Halloween Gala and Reverse Drawing from 6 to 9:30 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 17, at the Vada Sheid Community Development Center, 1600 S. College St. The night will include dinner, drinks, live entertainment, a silent auction and the city's first reverse drawing, with…

ByChris FultonOctober 7, 20260Comments

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Chamber’s State of Education Breakfast is this morning at ASUMH

The Mountain Home Area Chamber of Commerce holds its second annual State of Education Breakfast this morning at Arkansas State University-Mountain Home. Breakfast is served at 7:30 a.m. in the Trout Room at the Vada Sheid Community Development Center, 1600 S. College St. The presentations start at 8 a.m. The event is free and open…

ByChris FultonSeptember 18, 20260Comments

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Chamber sets second State of Education Breakfast for Sept. 18

The Mountain Home Area Chamber of Commerce will hold its State of Education Breakfast on Friday, Sept. 18, bringing leaders from the area's college, public school district and private academy together to talk about what education here is facing. The event runs from 7:30 to 9 a.m. in the Trout Room at the Vada Sheid…

ByChris FultonSeptember 9, 20260Comments

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Chamber’s Dani Pugsley elected to statewide economic development board

Mountain Home Area Chamber of Commerce President and CEO Dani Pugsley has been elected to the 2027 board of directors of Arkansas Economic Developers & Chamber Executives, representing the 1st Congressional District. The association announced its new board following its annual meeting Aug. 25 in Jonesboro, held during the group's 10th annual conference. The new…

ByChris FultonSeptember 1, 20260Comments

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Every junior expected to take WorkKeys next year, school board told

Mountain Home Public Schools expects every junior to sit for the ACT WorkKeys assessment during the 2026-27 school year, district testing coordinator Becca Camp told the school board Aug. 6. Camp presented three years of district testing data at the meeting, weeks after Baxter County was certified as an ACT Work Ready Community in June.…

ByChris FultonAugust 13, 20260Comments

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Chamber Leadership Class studies entrepreneurship on Economic and Community Development Day

The Mountain Home Area Chamber of Commerce Leadership Class spent a day on entrepreneurship and regional collaboration, touring a small business incubator and hearing from local owners about what it takes to build a company. The group visited the Ozarks Small Business Incubator in West Plains, Missouri, for a question-and-answer session on how the incubator…

ByChris FultonJuly 21, 20260Comments

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Baxter County earns ACT Work Ready Community designation

Baxter County has been certified as an ACT Work Ready Community, the result of a roughly two-year effort led by the Mountain Home Area Chamber of Commerce. Mountain Home Area Chamber of Commerce President and CEO Dani Pugsley and Becca Camp of the Mountain Home Public School District accepted the award at ACT's national summit…

ByChris FultonJuly 21, 20260Comments

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Community saves the fireworks as Red, White & Blue Festival pushes through a rocky 26th year

The 26th Annual Red, White & Blue Festival pushed through a rough weekend, losing its parade to weather and nearly losing its signature fireworks after the contracted company failed to show. The community rallied anyway, and the display lit up the Arkansas State University-Mountain Home campus on Saturday night as planned. The fireworks were the…

ByChris FultonJune 30, 20260Comments

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Fireworks company behind the festival no-show is in its second bankruptcy since 2014

The fireworks company that left the Red, White & Blue Festival without a show is working through its second bankruptcy in just over a decade. A.M. Pyrotechnics LLC owes more than $1 million to fewer than 50 creditors, court records show. The Buffalo, Missouri, company filed a voluntary Chapter 11 petition Feb. 27 in the…

ByChris FultonJune 30, 20260Comments

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Red White & Blue Festival returns to ASUMH this weekend

The Red White & Blue Festival returns to the Arkansas State University-Mountain Home campus Friday and Saturday, packing two days with a rodeo, a parade, a 5K, live music and a fireworks show. The festival runs June 26 and 27 at 1600 South College St. This year's event is dedicated in honor of Peter and…

ByChris FultonJune 25, 20260Comments