GALLIPOLIS — Ohio Valley Bank held its groundbreaking ceremony Tuesday for “OVB on the Square,” the local bank’s project to rehabilitate its old building at the corner of State Street and Second Avenue in Gallipolis. According to OVB Vice-President of Communications Bryna Butler, the bank first organized on September 24, 1872 in a second floor […]
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GALLIPOLIS — Leaders from across the region met Wednesday morning to review an assessment for five counties regarding the possibility of the aerospace industry. Gallia, Mason, Lawrence, and Jackson Counties in Ohio and West Virginia have been certified as AEROready communities based on their available resources and other data about the region. These five counties
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AEP Ohio, an American Electric Power (NYSE:AEP) recently announced Gallia County Economic Development as one of fifteen economic development organizations across Ohio awarded a Local Economic Assistance Program (LEAP) grant. Awarded annually since 2005, AEP Ohio’s LEAP grants provide funding to help local communities grow with a focus on retaining and expanding manufacturing jobs. “By
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The Gallia County Commissioners presented a proclamation Thursday morning to Melissa Clark, Gallia County Economic Development Director, recognizing May 7-12, 2018 as ‘National Economic Development Week’ in Gallia County. From left to right stand Commissioner Brent Saunders, Commissioner Harold Montgomery, Economic Development Director Melissa Clark, Commissioner David Smith, County Administrator Karen Sprague, and Job and
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RIO GRANDE — Buckeye Hills Career Center is a technical institute that seeks to prepare students in high school for careers after graduation. One of the major industries in the area is manufacturing; an area that BHCC prepares students for in several ways. A previous story in the Gallipolis Daily Tribune focused on their new
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BIDWELL — The Gallia Economic Development Office is partnering with JobsOhio and InSite Consulting to prepare the Dan Evans Industrial Park Phase II site of State Route 850 near US 35 in an authentication process to make it “shovel ready” for job creators to invest in Gallia’s economic future. According to Gallia Economic Development Director
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Buckeye Hills Career Center is set to offer a new program in the fall, Advanced Robotics Manufacturing Systems (ARMS). ARMS will be offered to high school students that will focus on robotics, programmable logic controllers (PLC), CNC machining, welding, hydraulics, and pneumatics. “In the modern workplace today, everybody competes against each other. Coorporate offices send
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GALLIPOLIS — Ohio Valley Bank has announced the closing of a deal to purchase vacant property on Second Avenue in Gallipolis along the park front. The property appears to be one, but is actually two lots that were owned by the Gallia County Community Improvement Corporation (CIC) and sold in an effort to further develop
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MIDDLEPORT — Just over a year ago Hobson Yard in Middleport stood silent as trains were idled, doors were locked, and there were no employees. The outlook for the historic switching station, and line itself, was grim. That changed in August of 2016 when Watco Transportation Services, LLC., one of the largest short line rail
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COLUMBUS — Gallia County Economic Development’s Aerial Marketing Video has been selected as runner-up in the “Economic Development Marketing: Small Community Category” at the Ohio Economic Development Association’s (OEDA) Annual Excellence Awards at the 2017 Annual Summit, held Oct. 18-20 at the Columbus Renaissance Downtown. “We are very pleased the Ohio Economic Development Association recognized
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The mission of the Gallia County Economic Development is to promote economic growth in Gallia County through the attraction of new business and industry and the retention of existing businesses by providing resources that encourage investment and development resulting in economic vitality, diversification of Gallia County’s tax base, and improved quality of life for Gallia County residents.
