by Jamdan Clang | Mar 10, 2021 | News
Photo (left to right): Milva McGhee, McCook Community Coordinator; Chris Wagner, McCook Economic Development Corporation (MEDC) Secretary; Dennis Berry, MEDC President; Andy Long, MEDC Executive Director; Lt. Governor Mike Foley; Mike Gonzales, Mayor; Ashley Rice...
by Jamdan Clang | Mar 9, 2021 | News
Photo: Gov. Ricketts (center) at the Burwell Rodeo in July 2015. A Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) from the Nebraska Department of Economic Development (DED) will help partners in Garfield County make the visitor experience at Burwell Fairgrounds —...
by Jamdan Clang | Mar 3, 2021 | News, Success Stories
Funding from the CDBG program helped Utica (population 922) come together to achieve a vision for the future. Joyce Schriner has a theory about how you get villagers in rural Nebraska to attend a town meeting. “If you feed them, they will come,” she said. “So that’s...
by Jamdan Clang | Mar 3, 2021 | News, Success Stories
Lt. Gov. Mike Foley (fourth from left), Sun Theatre Executive Director Roxanne Converse-Whiting (fourth from right) and others break ground on the Sun Theatre renovation project. Thanks to the CDBG program, a historic theater in the town of Gothenburg...