West Point News

Clark-Holder Clinic, PA, a multi-specialty healthcare group serving West Georgia, has finalized its agreement to join Emory Specialty Associates, LLC, a subsidiary of Emory Healthcare.

The Beaver Local board and superintendent have initialized the first steps in the repair of West Point Elementary School after it was voted to reopen the damaged building.

Our friends to the north received some good news last week. The City of Columbus landed its first industry directly related to the planned Kia plant in nearby West Point, Ga.

It appears Columbus has landed its first Kia supplier. Dongnam Precision Co. of South Korea will announce plans to build a $29 million plant in Columbus, according to state Sen.

Kia supplier Glovis will open a facility in West Point, Ga., creating 600 jobs. Glovis Georgia LLC and Glovis America Inc., part of Seoul, Korea-based Glovis, will supply auto parts and provide inventory ...

I have to respectfully disagree with the editorial of The Northeast Georgian by saying that the Visitors Center in Tallulah Falls would be an enormous plus to the region of Northeast Georgia.

The first vehicles to roll out of a Kia Motor Corp. factory under construction in West Point, Ga., will be a Sorento SUV, a company spokesman said Friday.

SEOULHyundai Motor has said it may manufacture small cars at a plant being built in the United States by its affiliate Kia Motors.

Local officials aren't saying, but an international news service reports that Kia Motors Corp.

She's got a ticket to ride, and she won't have to care about gas prices for the next year.

West Point, Ga. resident Jason Wade, a paraplegic, is getting his home repaired by the Fuller Center for Housing, based in Americus.

State eliminates corporate entities From Dalton Daily Citizen State eliminates corporate entities Georgia Secretary of State Karen Handel announced today that 158,777 corporations registered with the Secretary ...

Milwaukee-based Johnson Controls says it will open a manufacturing plant in Georgia that is expected to employ 310 people.

“We have looked at all of the things she brought to light”

Beaver Local fourth-graders will continue to ride the elementary school buses and follow the same schedule if they move to modular classrooms at the middle school this fall, according to school Superintendent ... via Morning Journal

“But we are forced to give up production of the pickup at the North America plant”

Neither Hyundai nor Kia will sell a pickup in the United States in the near future. via AutoWeek

“They're experts in building facilities like this”

When Kia Motors America's first assembly plant opens in West Point, Ga., later this year it'll have the added distinction of having the biggest footprint in the country. via Construction Equipment Guide

In March it was reported that Kia, looking to expand its lineup, was planning to develop a pickup for the American market . via Motor Trend

West Point Police Chief David Kerr is out of the hospital and recovering at home after he was dragged about 90 feet while caught in a car window. via WALB-TV Albany

The fish were caught by her husband Bill at the Chattahoochee River in downtown Helen. via Rome News - Tribune

“I think this bodes very, very well for Harris County”

The full-court press by area economic development teams for major Kia suppliers is about over, save for a couple of companies yet to announce their intentions.

That leaves Columbus, Phenix City and other communities not within 10 miles or so of the massive Kia Motors auto assembly plant being built in West Point, Ga., hoping to snare one of the lower-tier auto part manufacturers. There are an estimated eight to 10 of those remaining.

'Columbus was never in the picture for Tier 1 suppliers,' said Becca Hardin, executive vice president of economic development with the Greater Columbus Chamber of Commerce. 'We had a couple of companies look down here, but we're not close enough to the main Kia facility to really even be in the running.' Read more