{"id":932868,"date":"2020-10-24T16:40:37","date_gmt":"2020-10-24T21:40:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=932868"},"modified":"2020-10-26T11:09:13","modified_gmt":"2020-10-26T16:09:13","slug":"kilgore-edc-receives-top-national-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=932868","title":{"rendered":"Kilgore EDC receives top national award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2020\/10\/KEDC-Board-and-staff-with-EDO-of-the-Year-award-200x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-932869\" \/>KILGORE &#8212; The International Economic Development Council has recognized the Kilgore Economic Development Corporation as the national Economic Development Organization of the Year for cities with a population under 25,000. The Excellence in Economic Development award was presented at the IEDC annual conference earlier this month. In a news release, Mayor Ronnie Spradlin says the award &#8220;acknowledges the hard work, planning, and innovation that KEDC has demonstrated over the years,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d adding that it&#8217;s an honor to have KEDC recognized. KEDC Board President Bob Davis echoed the sentiments, saying the board and staff are &#8220;proud and humbled&#8221; at being handed the honor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KILGORE &#8212; The International Economic Development Council has recognized the Kilgore Economic Development Corporation as the national Economic Development Organization of the Year for cities with a population under 25,000. The Excellence in Economic Development award was presented at the IEDC annual conference earlier this month. In a news release, Mayor Ronnie Spradlin says the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=932868\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Kilgore EDC receives top national award<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-932868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-02 14:11:00","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/932868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=932868"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/932868\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":932871,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/932868\/revisions\/932871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=932868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=932868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=932868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}