Butler County Job Outlook

According to news out this week Butler County is leading the state in job creation. Butler County is growing so fast that in 2007 there were no other counties even close to Buttlers record setting pace. In 2007 businesses invested more than $856 million dollars and created over 3,000 new jobs.

Much of the growth is attributed to the expansion of neighboring communities to the north and south along with the counties access to the interstate connecting the two.

Visit our Middletown Community Website to read more about Butler county Setting the Trend for Job Creation.

Or leave your commnets on the Middletown USA Fourum.

Wausau Paper Reinvests $31 Million Dollars In Middletown

In an announcement earlier this week Wausau Paper (NYSE: WPP) President and CEO Thomas J. Howatt announced that the companies Board of Directors approved a $31 million dollar capitol investment in its Middletown Ohio paper mill to be completed by 2009.

The investment will bring state of the art technology to the Middletown facility with the hope of improving the mils toweling capacity by some 16,000 tons annually.

Howatt went on to say that Wausau “continues to be very pleased with the operating margins generated by our Towel & Tissue segment and this project reflects our commitment to reinvest in business to drive profitable growth”.

To read more about the company visit the Wausau Paper website.

And please visit the Middletown Ohio Forum to discuss the Recent Middletown Wausau Paper News.

Port Middletown

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Originally uploaded by John Beagle

by Linda Fisler

The Economic Restructing team is putting together a website to house our information and keep us thinking and engaged through our revitalization work.

In constructing the website, I'd like include some historic and current pictures of Port Middletown.

If anyone has any photos digitally that they wouldn't mind letting us use, please send them to [web@xponex.com and we will forward them to] Linda Fisler.

I'd be happy to include a reciprocal link to any website here in Middletown..please send that along as well.

Middletown Ohio Video Links

Did you know that MiddletownUSA.com is home to the internets largest collection of video on Middletown Ohio?

MiddletownUSA.com now has a years worth of Video from Middletown Ohio City Council Meetings, Middletown Ohio School Board Meetings, Middletown Ohio Community Events and more.

The above Video on Middletown High School Student Recognition is just a sample of the Middletown news videos you will find posted every day on our Middletown Ohio Community Website.

If you want to stay up on events in Middletown Ohio then you may want to bookmark this Middletown Video Archive page.

Don’t forget if you have an interesting video involving Middletown Ohio drop us an e-mail at web@xponex.com and we would be glad to put your video on our website.

Light Up Middletown Continues To Attract

Light Up Middletown, the annual Smith Park non-profit event organized by area volunteers has brought in over 4,000 vehicles with nearly 15,000 people inside them since it began this year on November 23rd. The attraction is open every day from 5:30 to 9:30 P.M. from now through New Year's Eve, regardless of weather or holiday.

Admission to Light Up Middletown is made through donation at the entrance, leaving you open to donate as much or as little as you want to take the drive around the 100-acre park. Some of the features at Light Up Middletown include the entrance, Christmas Tree Lane, a reflecting pool with floating swans, deer leaping over the road, a penguin village, a butterfly forest, and the new 138-foot-long Santa's Workshop display.

Tonight as 5:30 PM area balloonists will congregate at the park for the Middletown Journal Balloon Glow. Entrance to the balloon glow is free. Also open on Fridays and Saturdays in the park will be Santa House, home to Santa Clause and Mrs. Claus. Photo opportunities will be available.

For another upcoming area Yuletide event, see Christmas on the Plaza at MainStreetMonroe.com. For Light Up Middletown related articles see Light Up Middletown Proves Popular and Light Up Middletown on the MiddletownUSA Blog Forum.