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12/8/10 Local Small Business Advisor Honored Columbus, Ohio - Kathryn Goon, Certified Business Advisor for the Braintree Small Business Development Center, has been awarded the Collaboration Award by the network of Small Business Development Centers of Ohio. She was one of seven individuals and eight Centers statewide to be recognized by the network. Kathryn Goon's […]

Element Power, citizens debate wind energy at Shelby BY SHERYL POTTS • News Journal correspondent • December 17, 2010 SHELBY -- Element Power is one step closer to bringing its massive wind energy project to rural Richland and Crawford counties. Tuesday night's public information meeting was required by the Ohio Power Siting Board, and drew […]

NCSC Urban Center bringing higher ed to downtown Mansfield BY LOU WHITMIRE • News Journal • December 17, 2010 MANSFIELD -- Jennifer Brown and Brandi France were among dozens of students who toured North Central State College's downtown, high-tech Urban Higher Education Center during its open house Thursday. Both are studying for their equivalency diplomas […]

Written by Bob Leach    Tuesday, 16 November 2010 15:18 SHELBY -- The Kehoe Student Business Incubator is one more tool the region has to promote entrepreneurism and job creation in north central Ohio.The incubator, in North Central State College Kehoe Center's Advanced Learning building, will provide free space to student entrepreneurs who want to […]

Written by Bob Leach    Monday, 23 August 2010 18:03 80-acre solar farm in Wyandot County offers glimpse at Ohio's energy future John Funk, The Plain Dealer August 19, 2010 UPPER SANDUSKY, Ohio -- A part of Ohio's energy future is emerging in a tiny farming town about 100 miles southwest of Cleveland. There, a […]

Written by Bob Leach    Monday, 23 August 2010 17:58 New Owners Refurbish Battered Ohio Furniture Maker   Wall Street Journa Report August 20, 2010   By JAMES R. HAGERTY NORWALK, Ohio-Dan White has an edge that many rivals in the slumping U.S. furniture business can only envy: He wiped the slate clean at a […]

Bob Cohen receives 2010 Reginald J. Cressman AwardCreating employment opportunities marks Northeast Ohio Cooperative Educator for ACE AwardCLEVELAND, July 19, 2010 -- The Association of Cooperative Educators(ACE) names Bob Cohen as its 2010 recipient of the Reginald J. Cressman Award for outstanding commitment to staff development. Cohen is CEO of the Braintree Business Development Center […]

WINNER City of Akron, University of Akron, Akron Global Business IncubatorPROJECT: Overseas Impact of the Akron Global Business Accelerator in 2009Business incubators might be today’s hot property in economic development, but that wasn’t the case back in 1983.It was a new and relatively unheard-of concept in that year, when the Akron Global Business Incubator was […]

May 12, 2010 MANSFIELD, OH-Two OSU Mansfield students were named "Student Workers of the Year" and each received a $500 scholarship to help meet higher education expenses.Lakisha Allen, Mansfield, was named Off-Campus Worker of the Year. She has assisted at Braintree for the past two years where she was instrumental in implementing and maintaining Braintree's […]

Written by Bob Leach    Tuesday, 04 May 2010 13:08 Therm-O-Disc gets $1M Ohio Tech Grant BY LOU WHITMIRE • News Journal • April 28, 2010 MANSFIELD -- Emerson Therm-O-Disc and its technology partner, NexTech, will receive a $1 million grant Friday through the Ohio Third Frontier initiative. Eric Fingerhut, Chancellor of the Ohio Board […]