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Reprinted with permission from the Vincennes Sun-Commercial newspaper August 6, 2022 More than $5 million will likely be funneled into Knox County as part of Indiana First’s successful READI application, Chris Pfaff, president of Knox County Indiana Economic Development, announced to members of the organization’s board of directors Friday. After months of toiling, Pfaff said [...]

Reprinted with permission from Inside Indiana Business, May 13, 2022 Vincennes-based Skill Precast LLC is planning to build a new manufacturing site in Knox County. The company, which makes precast concrete wall panels and pole bases, says it will invest $2.2 million to construct the facility and create up to 15 jobs. Skill Precast is [...]

Reprinted with permission from the Vincennes Sun-Commercial, June 15, 2022 Sunrise Coal announced further investment in Knox County this week, this time with the reopening of the Freelandville Surface Mine. According to a press release, Terre Haute-based Hallador Energy Company, through its wholly-owned subsidiary Sunrise Coal, is working now to reopen the Freelandville Surface Mine, [...]

April 25, 2022 (Vincennes, IN) The Knox Broadband Task Force is pleased to share that Echo Wireless, a locally based internet service provider (ISP), has been awarded $2.4 million from the state's Next Level Connections Broadband Grant Program. The funding will support expanded broadband infrastructure in the northeastern region of Knox County. "Indiana's investment in [...]

Reprinted with permission from the Vincennes Sun-Commercial newspaper May 24, 2022 Knox County is joining six other counties in Southwest Indiana in an effort to better understand possible gaps in the availability of childcare within the region. Chris Pfaff, CEO of Knox County Indiana Economic Development, says though the current information is anecdotal, he has heard [...]

Reprinted with permission from the Vincennes Sun-Commercial newspaper, January 8, 2022 The county’s leading economic development organization had a pretty big 2021. Chris Pfaff, president of Knox County Indiana Economic Development, kicked the new year off highlighting for his board of directors, as they gathered Friday morning at Vincennes University’s Learning Resource Center, some [...]

Reprinted with permission from the Vincennes Sun-Commercial, March 19, 2022 It’s been three months since local officials learned that Knox County, as part of a five-county Indiana First regional application to the state’s new READI program, had received $15 million. But they’ve made only a little progress in determining exactly how that money will be [...]

Reprinted with permission from the Vincenness Sun-Commercial newspaper, March 5, 2022 “After 12 years, we’re getting the band back together,” Shyla Beam, executive director of the Vincennes Tourism Bureau said with a smile to members of Knox County Indiana Economic Development Friday morning. The county’s leading economic development organization, during their regular meeting held at [...]

Reprinted with permission from the Vincennes Sun-Commercial newspaper March 16, 2022 Updated March 18, 2022 BICKNELL — City officials on Monday approved their first-ever tax abatement to a local business that has now doubled its footprint. Mayor Thomas Estabrook said the city council gave final approval to a 10-year tax abatement for Basiloid Diversified Products, a [...]

PRESS RELEASE Hamilton, NJ… Vincennes, Indiana will roll out the red carpet to welcome the top 10-year-old talent in the country to Joe Bilskie, Sr. Field and Earl Lawson Field, two of the finest youth baseball facilities in the Midwest, for the 2022 Cal Ripken 10-Year-Old World Series.  The World Series, one of the largest [...]