by Jamdan Clang | Mar 18, 2021 | News
Photo: Home in Wakefield built with support from the Rural Workforce Housing Fund. It was January 2019 when Governor Ricketts visited Wakefield on a chilly, snowy day to tour the home of the Ruiz family — the city’s first new build financed by 2017’s Rural...
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...