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Showing posts with label jobs. Show all posts
Showing posts with label jobs. Show all posts
Friday, August 28, 2020

EDA to develop strategy for marketing commercial land at interchange; City Council to take up greenspace deal

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Zoning map adapted by Midway Messenger shows most of Midway Station; for a larger version, click on it. With all the industrial-zoned land i...
Saturday, August 22, 2020

Property valuations rise 14.4% as payroll-tax revenue is steady, so mayor proposes cutting property-tax rates

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UPDATE, Monday, Aug. 24: The council heard first reading of the ordinance. Property valuations in Midway are up substantially, and Mayor Gra...
Wednesday, August 19, 2020

Council accepts mayor's plan to use surplus to finish sewer repairs by replacing main line to treatment plant

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Green lines show sewers that are part of the video-and-cleanout project. By Heston Bates, Taylor Beavers, Jordan Brown and Gage O'Dell U...
Tuesday, August 11, 2020

EDA board lines up sales of four large Midway Station lots that are supposed to produce 70 new jobs

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Lots 24, 25, 26 and 27 were prepared for sale by EDA at its meeting Tuesday. (For a larger image, click on it.) Seventy more jobs would come...
Wednesday, July 29, 2020

EDA sells two Midway Station lots to Creech Services, which bales and ships muck from horse stalls

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By Aaron Gershon University of Kentucky School of Journalism and Media The Woodford County Economic Development Authority voted unanim...
Wednesday, July 15, 2020

Mayor, EDA chair check out firm that bales horse-stall muck and decide to welcome it to Midway Station

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By Aaron Gershon University of Kentucky School of Journalism and Media Midway Mayor Grayson Vandegrift and Woodford County Economic Developm...
Sunday, July 12, 2020

Mayor announces distillery, RV resort park planned for Mitchell farm at northwest corner of I-64 interchange

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City limits in pink;  urban service boundary is line above “Proj A.” UPDATE, July 15: The conditional-use permit process for the RV res...
Sunday, June 28, 2020

City won't be reimbursed for vouchers, so mayor says council should consider an even bigger grant plan

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The vouchers must be spent at local businesses by Tuesday, June 30. By Aaron Gershon and Al Cross University of Kentucky School of Jou...
Saturday, June 27, 2020

The John Soper era ends at EDA and Midway Station; mayor calls the last six years 'an incredible turnaround'

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Economic Development Authority Chair John Soper discussed Midway Station at a Midway City Council meeting in October. By Al Cross Univ...
Saturday, June 6, 2020

City in line for pandemic relief funds; mayor proposes giving up to 40 businesses $2,000 each for shortfalls

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By Aaron Gershon University of Kentucky School of Journalism and Media The city of Midway can get more than $129,000 in for expenses re...
Monday, June 1, 2020

Council passes resolution saying it will confront racial issues in city; deadline to file for council is 4 p.m. Tues.

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By Aaron Gershon and Al Cross University of Kentucky School of Journalism and Media The Midway City Council committed itself Monday to c...
Wednesday, May 27, 2020

Firm that bales horse-stall muck has an eye on Midway Station, but is discouraged by prospect of court action

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By Al Cross and Aaron Gershon University of Kentucky School of Journalism and Media A Lexington firm that services horse farms says it m...

Council votes to put completion of cemetery pavilion back into budget; first reading scheduled for Monday

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Late-winter photo shows that the concrete base, casket platform and walkway for the pavilion have been completed.   By Aaron Gershon ...

EDA confident about partner, talks transition from Soper, hires agent and starts transfer of greenspace to city

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This map was published in March 2019, when the city annexed the property that EDA had an option to buy. By Aaron Gershon University of...
Wednesday, May 20, 2020

Community Fund seeks grant applications, donations

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By Lori Garkovich Chair, Woodford County Community Fund The Woodford County Community Fund seeks nonprofit partners who have the capa...
Tuesday, May 19, 2020

Mayor says he will use persuasion, 'market forces' to compel compliance in reopening, but not 'three strikes'

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Elisha Holt does a Midway Business Association video about the Historic Midway Museum Gift Store, part of a series tied to retail reopeni...
Wednesday, April 29, 2020

City council, mayor draft ‘bare bones budget’ in virus response, but delay final action; sidewalk projects cut

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By Emmanuel Flemister University of Kentucky School of Journalism and Media The Midway City Council and Mayor Grayson Vandergrift cut...