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		<title>New Jobs Coming to County</title>
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Herr-Voss Stamco
to build new plant in the Nucor Road Industrial Corridor creating up to 25 high wage jobs by 2014. The Indiana Economic Development Corporation offered Herr-Voss Stamco up to $225,000 in conditional tax credits based on the company’s job creation plans. The company will invest in a new 20,000 sq. ft. facility and begin construction this year.
Herr-Voss [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mcedinc.com/MCED_BF/press-release/new-jobs-coming-to-county</link>
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		<title>Innovation Community</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last year, in collaboration with Wabash College, Montgomery County Economic Development (MCED) sponsored the inaugural Forum on Innovation. Two initiatives were identified from the Forum. The first was to organize an Innovation Community Team to help us develop the basis for a comprehensive economic development plan.  The other was to survey the community and various [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mcedinc.com/MCED_BF/press-release/innovation-community</link>
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		<title>Managing Your Mature Workforce</title>
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Crawfordsville, Ind. – You are invited to attend a four hour interactive seminar session where you will learn, “Facts/The Current Situation,” “Points to Ponder,” “Bright Ideas and Best Practices,” and participate in exercises geared to stimulate your thinking and insight into mature worker and multigenerational issues. 
 
Hosted by the Montgomery County Economic Development, Hoosier Heartland [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mcedinc.com/MCED_BF/press-release/managing-your-mature-workforce</link>
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		<title>Montgomery County Obtains New Designation as Foreign Trade Zone</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Montgomery County has officially been accepted into the Indianapolis Airport Authority’s Foreign Trade Zone (FTZ), effective March 3, 2011. Montgomery County Economic Development, (MCED) filed the request for the Foreign Trade Zone ASF Program, in July of 2010, on behalf of the community.
 
 
Bill Henderson, MCED Executive Director says, 

“The new trade zone designation places our [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mcedinc.com/MCED_BF/press-release/montgomery-county-obtains-new-designation-as-foreign-trade-zone</link>
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		<title>Montgomery County Economic Development hosts Lane Ralph Deputy Director for State Senator Richard Lugar</title>
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Frank Ropkey (Ropkey Armor Museum) Lane Ralph and (Deputy Director for State Senator Richard Lugar)


 
Montgomery County Economic Development (MCED) hosted Lane Ralph, Deputy Director for State Senator Richard Lugar yesterday. Mr. Ralph asked MCED to arrange an itinerary for the day that would include manufacturing, agriculture and tourism with a specific request to tour the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mcedinc.com/MCED_BF/press-release/montgomery-county-economic-development-hosts-lane-ralph-deputy-director-for-state-senator-richard-lugar</link>
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		<title>USDA Office Moving to Crawfordsville Indiana</title>
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USDA Rural Development’s Covington Area Office is moving to a new location in Crawfordsville.  Starting Tuesday, March 22, 2011, the office will be located at:
 USDA Rural Development
 Crawfordsville Area Office
 2028 Lebanon Road
 Crawfordsville, IN  47933-2143
 (765) 362-0405 Ext. 4
The Crawfordsville office will deliver USDA Rural Development programs and services to Benton, Boone, Clinton, Fountain, Hendricks, Montgomery, Parke, Putnam, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mcedinc.com/MCED_BF/press-release/usda-office-moving-to-crawfordsville-indiana</link>
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		<title>New Company for Nucor Road Steel Campus</title>
		<description><![CDATA[                          Montgomery County Economic Development, Inc (MCED) is pleased to announce that Steel Technologies LLC (Steel Technologies) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding to acquire the business and certain assets of NuPro Steel, LLC (NuPro), a wholly owned subsidiary of Nucor Corporation (Nucor).  Steel Technologies expects to complete the acquisition in April of this year, subject [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mcedinc.com/MCED_BF/press-release/new-company-for-nucor-road-steel-campus</link>
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		<title>Innovation Community 2011</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Montgomery County and Crawfordsville, Indiana have a rich history of Innovation. Our community, Industries and businesses have initiated many first of its kind accomplishments, structures and products.
In earlier times, we won the very first state basketball championship, built the first rotary jail in the country and provided the Chairman for the first Republican National Convention. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mcedinc.com/MCED_BF/press-release/innovation-community-survey</link>
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		<title>Forum on Innovation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[                                               
Press Release: September 9, 2010
Forum on Innovation
Crawfordsville, Indiana
Crawfordsville Indiana hosted its first “Forum on Innovation” today as part of an ongoing Innovative Community initiative by Montgomery County Economic Development, Inc.
The luncheon featured Dr. Patrick White, President of Wabash College, Wabash Basketball coach Mac Petty and Joyce Burnett, Economics Department Chair to discuss the educational assets [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mcedinc.com/MCED_BF/press-release/forum-on-innovation</link>
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		<title>Corn Power!</title>
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by
Morris Mills
Bill Henderson
Montgomery County has a proud history of excellence in agriculture and the prospects looks good for farming when you consider the implications of home-grown energy on our economy.
U.S. corn yields have gone from 6.64 billion bushels in 1980 to an estimated 13.30 billion in 2010. That represents a doubling in production over those [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mcedinc.com/MCED_BF/press-release/corn-power</link>
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