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Shawn Porter Joins Powell Valley National Bank

Jonesville, Virginia–Powell Valley National Bank (PVB, Bank) is pleased to announce Shawn Porter has joined PVB as Senior Vice President and Market Executive. Porter joins Powell Valley National Bank with 26 years of banking and finance experience. He has worked his way through the banking ranks, beginning his career with Wachovia Bank in 1998. After… Read more »



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Benjamin Taylor Joins Powell Valley National Bank

Jonesville, Virginia–Powell Valley National Bank (PVB, Bank) is pleased to announce Benjamin Taylor has joined PVB as Assistant Vice President and Loan Processor. Taylor joins the Bank with eight years of banking experience, specializing in commercial real estate and equipment loan documentation. He also has valuable experience in other types of commercial transactions, consumer loans,… Read more »





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Letters From Leton: Ohio Cousins

Starting in the 1940s up into the early 1970s hundreds of thousands of Appalachians moved north. The coal business went from a manual business (digging by hand) to a mechanical process (machines dug the coal). The mechanization, along with some other economic factors, left folks unemployed and looking for jobs. They moved north to work… Read more »