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On the road to Paducah
A bus with about two dozen Middletown residents loaded up on bus at the Manchester Inn today, July 16, at about 9 a.m. as it headed to Paducah, Ky.
The delegation of various community stakeholders are traveling to Paducah to take a look at how that community transformed and revitalized its downtown area by developing an artists relocation program that began in 2000.
When she was being interviewed for the city manager’s position late last year, Judy Gilleland said the Paducah model struck her as a possible way to revitalize downtown Middletown.
The overnight trip is being sponsored by the Middletown Community Foundation and will include presentations by city, business and banking officials, tours of the downtown area as well as meeting with several of the artists who helped to develop the program.
Mike Scorti, Foundation president, told the participants, “if you live in a town long enough, you are the town.”
Scorti hopes that one person will come back from this trip with one fantastic idea to help the entire community.
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