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Meet Our New Executive Assistant


Tessa Byham has recently been hired by the Venango Chamber as the new Executive Assistant. She is a 2014 Edinboro University graduate with a Bachelor of Arts degree in communications. Tessa’s past experience includes Eligibility Specialist at the Child Care Information Services, Material Analyst at McManis & Monsalve Associates, Therapeutic Support Staff at North Star Read More…

Potter Baseball Tour Returns to Venango County


On July 10th the Potter Baseball Tour will return to the Oil Region for a two-day tour stop. During this stop they will provide community service for several local organizations and enjoy pickup games of baseball, to include a softball game against the Oil City Fire Department.             Potter Baseball is built upon four tenets Read More…

Sue Smith retiring from Northwest; Siegel to take place as Regional Planning Manager


Northwest Commission Regional Planning Manager, Sue Smith’s last day is June 29th.  Her duties at the Commission included managing the region’s infrastructure planning and development and coordinates transportation planning and programming between the counties of Clarion, Crawford, Forest, Venango, and Warren, and the Department of Transportation through the development of the Transportation Improvement Program (TIP).  Read More…

Four Words From a Billionaire That Could Change the Way You Network


By Kurtis Bell, ServiceMaster by Bell In my typical scouring of the internet to find inspiration for my monthly networking article, I did the usual. I had an idea in mind; I searched for some related articles, and found nothing. I stumbled across three or four more other seemingly great topics, but could not figure Read More…