FAIRFIELD, OH (FOX19) - Fairfield Koch Foods has announced an expansion on Tuesday.

The company will be adding nearly 400 new jobs over the next three years. The deal was approved on Monday night and was passed unanimously by council. The agreement with Koch provides a 75 percent property tax incentive. The company will pay Fairfield City Schools directly for the next 10 years as part of the tax deal.

Koch Foods has been in business since 1985 and is the preferred supplier of fresh and frozen poultry products for retail and food service operators across the globe, according to their website.

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MIDDLETOWN, OH (FOX19) - Cincinnati State representatives will address members of the Middletown Chamber of Commerce Tuesday, June 12 to discuss the potential business benefits associated with the opening of the College’s Middletown campus.

The meeting will begin at 8 a.m. at the Middletown Senior Center, 3907 Central Avenue, near what will be the first building in use when Cincinnati State opens its new campus at 1 North Main on Aug. 29.

Renovations to the building have begun, and enrollment of students is underway. (Students may enroll online through www.cincinnatistate.edu/middletown or at “Fast Track” sessions held from 9 a.m. – 1 p.m. every Saturday at the Middletown City Building.)

The overall theme of the June 12 “Coffee and Conversation” session is, “How can your business benefit from Cincinnati State Middletown? It’s Your Community College!”

Specific topics include:

HANOVER TOWNSHIP, BUTLER COUNTY, OH (FOX19) – Another in a series of oversized shipments from the Anderson Ferry on the Ohio River in Cincinnati to a plant in Middletown was slowing and/or closing U.S. 27 north of Millville Wednesday afternoon.

Andrew Bohannon of Miami University tried to pass through the area around 4:30 and found it blocked, not moving in either direction.  Dispatchers didn't know when thety were going to leave 27 or stop work for the night,

Today’s shipment was moving up U.S. 27, often at walking speed or less.  Anytime the shipment comes up on wires that go across the road at a comparatively low height, workers have use poles to lift the wires up for the oversized trailer to go through.

The shipments also have to take a long and crazy route to avoid overpasses, so they are alternately using highways and side roads to get through.

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