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Guernsey Power Station

  • Post Author By SEO
  • Post Date May 13, 2019
Norm Blanchard poses for a portrait in front of the future sight of the Guernsey Power Station Blanchard is the Economic Development Director for the Cambridge-Guernsey Community Imporovement Corporation. Blanchard said he was very excited when he heard about this power station coming to Cambridge. The anticipated annual plant budget is $20 million, with at least half of that being spent locally. GPS itself is approximately a $1.4 billion dollar project that will produce 500 jobs during construction and 140 annually.

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Coffee Brewers Go from Hobbyists to Wholesalers

  • Post Author By SEO
  • Post Date May 22, 2018

The Walkers broke into the coffee industry after humble beginnings as coffee enthusiasts.   Lorraine and Phil Walker started their coffee business off about as local as possible. They began roasting coffee beans in a popcorn maker and selling it to their friends in Gallipolis in 2008.   With no starting capital, they managed to turn one of the rooms in their house into a USDA-approved roasting site, distributing to one Kroger in Athens, and gained a very small online following.   These days the Walkers spend most of their week inside their 400-square-foot coffee warehouse alongside whirring grinders and the constant smell of beans.  With simple origins, Silverbridge Coffee now produces about 1,200 pounds of coffee […]

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Wild Honey

  • Post Author By SEO
  • Post Date April 13, 2016

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