by Jamdan Clang | Apr 15, 2022 | News, Success Stories
Lieutenant Governor Mike Foley visited the city of Plainview yesterday to present local officials and economic developers with the 2022 Governor’s Showcase Community Award. The award is presented to one Nebraska community each year during the annual celebration of...
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...
by Jamdan Clang | Mar 3, 2021 | News, Success Stories
In Norfolk (population 24,424), a CDBG-funded project is attracting visitors from throughout the Midwest. If you build it, they will come. Ramps and half-pipes included. “The entire first week of the grand opening, we were flooded with skaters from all over the...
