City of Valley

As the old Peaches and Herb song goes, “Reunited and it feels so good…”, and on Tuesday, May 2, 2012, Rusty the Iron Man and his family were reunited and it felt good to all those who made it happen. Chuck Moore, local artist and creator of Rusty and his family, and Valley city employees moved the massive sculptures – Rusty weighs in at 2,810 pounds and his family tops the scale at over 3,400 – to their new home next to the CVR Rails-To-Trails and adjacent to the Historic Langdale Mill.

On Tuesday, April 3rd, as part of Point University's Spring Ministry Day, students, faculty, and staff from  drove down from Atlanta, GA for a day of community service in the Greater Valley Area. Some of PU's top football players worked on the Langdale Mill Redevelopment Project. The students helped in the ARC funded project that is deconstructing 5 non-historic warehouses on the mill property by moving the contents of Warehouses 3 and 4 to another warehouse that is being used to hold materials that are being salvage from the project.

After receiving close to one million dollars in grants from the EPA’s Brownfields Program, the Appalachian Regional Commission (ARC), and the USDA that funded feasibility studies; the creation of a master plan for redevelopment of the Historic Langdale Mill property; and environmental assessments and environmental cleanup on both Langdale and Riverdale mills, work has begun on Phase One of the Langdale Mill Redevelopment Project.