County’s brightest students set their sights on other towns, states after graduating from college
By CARL E. FEATHER - Lifestyle Editor - cfeather@starbeacon.com
Star Beacon
“I feel there is plenty of opportunity here in Ashtabula to start a business,” he says. “If you have the drive and motivation to succeed, you definitely can do anything you want to here. There is nothing to stop you from being successful in Ashtabula.”
Blakeslee, who would like to come back to her hometown, says job creation in the county needs to focus on the technologies of the future, not the manufacturing of the past.
“We need to create job opportunities,” she says. “There is not much to do here. Unless you are a doctor or want to work on the coal dock, there isn’t much to do here.”
Wood, whose family owns a downtown Ashtabula business, is concerned about the negative impact the loss of locally owned businesses have on a community.
“Without local business, there is no charm to downtown, no American Dream and no long-term, full-time, high-quality employment,” she observes.
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