Middletown Forum : Middletown's Past http://www.middletownusa.com/forum/ This is an XML content feed of; Middletown Forum : About Middletown : Middletown's Past Tue, 06 Oct 2026 00:49:44 +0000 Sun, 14 Mar 2010 12:06:05 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Web Wiz Forums 10.12 360 www.middletownusa.com/forum/RSS_post_feed.asp?TID=2800 Middletown Forum http://middletownusa.com/images/blog-logo.jpg http://www.middletownusa.com/forum/ Middletown's Past : Alot of this article was still... http://www.middletownusa.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=2800&PID=17403&title=middletowns-past#17403 Author: VietVet
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Posted: Mar 14 2010 at 12:06pm

Alot of this article was still accurate until the 1970's. Then, papermaking started to dwindle, and Armco, at the time, started to get away from steelmaking and started it's course of overdiversification into oil and high risk insurance ventures that carried over into the 80's. They never recovered. The town's leaders during this time apparently didn't see a need to add diversity to the city, relying on the 9000 employees of Armco to drive the city's money flow and finance the city's improvements. Now at 3000 or less, AK isn't able to drive the city anymore and because of the poor judgement of the city leaders the last 35-40 years, we can't seem to recover and find a new identity. No one running this town is smart enough to find the answers or direction for any success. Who/what do we want to be as a city and what direction do we want to go to get there? Well city leaders and Council? It's in your court and it's been far too long since anyone was dynamic enough to get us going in the right direction.

Thanks past and current city leaders! ]]> Sun, 14 Mar 2010 12:06:05 +0000 http://www.middletownusa.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=2800&PID=17403&title=middletowns-past#17403 Middletown's Past : Times do change. Who would have... http://www.middletownusa.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=2800&PID=17398&title=middletowns-past#17398 Author: Hermes
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Posted: Mar 14 2010 at 10:00am

Times do change. Who would have guessed back then that today Middeltown would be a welfare city dependant on federal support.

]]> Sun, 14 Mar 2010 10:00:18 +0000 http://www.middletownusa.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=2800&PID=17398&title=middletowns-past#17398 Middletown's Past : In the days before we had... http://www.middletownusa.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=2800&PID=17390&title=middletowns-past#17390 Author: TudorBrown
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Posted: Mar 14 2010 at 1:55am

In the days before we had leaders that would do something so silly as branding our downtown an "Art District"... LOL


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