There’s always a Logan County Connection, we contend, and that’s proven to be true with the biggest national
news story of the year. Sorry,
LeBron and Tiger, but that
distinction belongs to the tragic,
massive BP oil spill off the Gulf
Coast, a $20 billion-plus story so far.
Here’s the Logan Connection: BP owns 40 percent of Logan Aluminum, the centerpiece of the local economy. You can trace British Petroleum’s investment through the Anaconda/ARCO Metals lineage.
Leaders of Logan Aluminum-both past and present-have assured The LoJo that BP’s drama won’t affect the corporate island headquartered at Epley Station’s financial future.
Logan Aluminum produces a major portion of the sheet metal that goes into all aluminum cans, and company officials are convinced that the plant will go about business as normal, whether BP decides to divest itself of some of its assets or not. No doubt about it: Logan Aluminum is an asset, and other major corporations would be keenly interested in acquiring what also is a great asset of Logan County. The LoJo The death of Alvin ‘Butch’ Klein recently leaves a void in our community. He was fun, an astute businessman and a good citizen. For decades he ran Kleins Department Store on the corner of Main and East Third streets in Russellville. It was a three-generation “dry goods” store started by his grandfather, Ben Klein... Read More...
