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If at First You Don’t Succeed: Campus Alum Seizes a Second Chance at Success

May 20, 2012 in AV, BOL, Economic Development, Entertainment, History, Local Interest, TAB, weather, YouTube

Photo: Ken Radzieta stands on the South African shoreIf at First You Don’t Succeed: Campus Alum Seizes a Second Chance at SuccessDuBOIS – With just a few summer credits left to earn, Ken Radzieta will graduate from Penn State in August with a bachelor’s degree in history and a minor in geography. He has carried a grade point average of either 4.0, or close to it, for much of his time as a student. However, it’s been a long journey for the 30 year old DuBois native

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State Helps Delta Buy Refinery

May 1, 2012 in Allegheny National Forest, AV, BOL, Economic Development, History, Local Interest, TAB, Talk About Bradford, Twitter, weather

Governor Tom Corbett today announced that commonwealth support will enable Delta Air Lines’ wholly-owned subsidiary, Monroe Energy LLC, to acquire the ConocoPhillips refinery in Trainer, preserving hundreds of direct jobs and thousands of jobs in related industries. Monroe will receive a $30 million Opportunity Grant from the Department of Community and Economic Development for job creation and site improvements. Financial support is contingent upon the company investing at least $350 million at the project site, including acquisition costs, and employing at least 402 full-time workers on-site for at least five years from the date of occupancy.

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City of Bradford Celebration Day

September 22, 2008 in Community Development, Economic Development, Local Interest

The City of Bradford’s Office of Economic and Community Development is pleased to announce that it will be hosting two separate ribbon-cutting ceremonies to celebrate the accomplishments of two significant community development projects funded in part through the Impact Bradford project. The first ribbon-cutting & dedication ceremony will be held at 11:00 a.m. on Thursday, September 25th, at the intersection of Onofrio Street and North Onofrio Street. This ceremony will celebrate the revitalization of Onofrio Street through the renovation of sixteen homes and the construction of sixteen new homes along with significant cleanup and infrastructure improvements that have taken place over the past ten years.

The second ceremony will be held at 1:30 p.m. on Thursday in front of the Old City Hall Building on Kennedy Street. This ceremony celebrates the completion of the final phase of the revitalization and redevelopment of the Boylston Street and Kennedy Street area of historic downtown Bradford. The $2.2 million downtown streetscape project primarily funded through Impact Bradford includes the replacement of curbs and sidewalks, which include decorative stamped concrete and traffic-calming areas, new stamped-concrete crosswalks, decorative streetlights, new trees and plantings and the upgrade of the traffic signal at the corner of Kennedy Street and Boylston Street.

Speakers for these ceremonies include Jackie Z. Parker, Executive Director of the Pennsylvania Department of Community and Economic Development’s Community Action Team. Ms. Parker is representing Govenor Rendell. Other speakers included Senator Pro Tempore Joseph Scarnati, Representative Martin Causer and Bradford City Mayor Tom Riel. The public is invited to help the Bradford community celebrate by attending both of these ceremonies.

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Bradford “Stripper Wells” On CNN

September 18, 2008 in AV, Economic Development, Local Interest, Uncategorized

From CNN.com:
The political discussion about solving America’s energy crisis is focused on offshore drilling and renewable energy, but scattered throughout the country are thousands of small oil wells called stripper wells.

Many of them are family owned and these small, independent operators say they could also be part of the energy solution. Forgotten about and misunderstood, many small operators say most people don’t even know they exist.

“That’s part of our message — to let the public realize we are not the Exxons and the Mobils,” said Fred Fesenmyer of Minard Run Oil, a Bradford, Pennsylvania, company that has been in his family for six generations. “I think we’re a huge part of the solution.” more…

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Update On Job Stes

August 29, 2008 in Economic Development, Jobs & Employment, Local Interest

Jobs, help-wanted, employment. Whether you’re unemployed and looking, or already employed and looking to make a change, job searches take up a lot of time.

There are a lot of jobs out there, but that’s the problem. They’re not here, but rather, out there. If you have a family, or a two job home, relocating isn’t usually an option. An Internet job search means going from site to site, which is time consuming and frustrating. On each site you can narrow your search to find something close enough to commute to. Unless you want "get rich working from home", there really aren’t a lot of local opportunities. Many of us are already employed. It’s still fun to look at what’s available. Maybe we’l find something that is more satisfying, better paying, or at least closer to home. It’s nice to look, but we don’t have the time to spend hours sorting out the garbage to find real jobs we’d actually apply for.

We’ve developed a group of sites dedicated to employment in the local area. Each concentrates on a 25 mile radius around their area.

These sites collect job postings from many companies and other job boards across the Internet. We save you time by gathering all those job posts so you don’t spend hours of your own. You can also narrow your search to construction jobs, or retail jobs for instance, or expand it to include other areas of the country. For job seekers it’s all free, no fees, no registration. Employers pay to post these jobs, so you’ll find very few multi-level marketing and work-from-home junk ads. These are real jobs in the local area.

These sites are also designed with employers in mind. Most of the jobs available locally aren’t the kind of job people relocate for. Sure, the Internet is a good place to search for a CEO, or other upper level management. Most employers don’t do a national search for a secretary or a carpenter. Posting a job on Monster.com costs $225 and gets lumped in with "US-Pennsylvania-Erie". Posting a job listing on BradfordPAJobs.com, or one of our other sites costs $99 for 30 days. When you post a job through one of our sites, it not only goes into the national network, it’s also displayed at the top of all the local listings. Local employers reach the people they need most, qualified local workers.

As always, we want your comments. Each site has a "Contact Us" link. If you have any questions, suggestions, or comments, please let us know!

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Bank Street Community Garden

July 21, 2008 in AV, Community Development, Economic Development, Local Interest

Inch by inch and row by row, making your garden grow takes patience and dedication. The garden is a great metaphor for many of the projects being carried out by Bradford’s Office of Economic and Community Development (OECD). Ambitious works like the Elm Street Project (Map) take years of planning and effort to show results.

Part of the Elm Street project’s rejuvenation of neighborhoods is the Bank Street Community Garden. Take one dilapidated property that isn’t on the tax roles anyhow, add volunteers, creativity, and dedication, and what can be accomplished?

Thanks to Elm Street Project Manager Lisa Campogiani, Interns Kara & Rachel, and the volunteers who are donating labor and materials, the gardening project is coming together in one neighborhood. Hopefully it is just the first.

Rachel attends Penn State, and Kara attends Cornell. The are both Landscape Architecture majors contributing their skills (and labor) to the garden. Both chose to come to Bradford because of our location in the Allegany National Forest. They have created the Bank Street Community Garden Blog.

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