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USDA Rural Development Makes New Library Dream a Reality for a Small Kentucky Community

February 10, 2011 Katherine Belcher, Kentucky Public Information Coordinator

Despite below-freezing temperatures and high-wind advisories, more than 50 residents of Hardinsburg and Breckinridge County, Kentucky, turned out recently to celebrate the groundbreaking of a new public library. The crowd included local high school students, city and county officials, library board...

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Idaho Residents Receive Improved Fire Protection Services thanks to USDA Recovery Act Funds

January 05, 2011 Kerrie Hurd, USDA Rural Development Idaho Public Information Officer

Wow, the first emergency call out of the new fire station. As I pulled into the driveway of the new Heyburn, Idaho, Fire Station for the ribbon cutting, I was greeted with the red lights flashing on the fire truck as the fire crew rushed to their call. Initially, I thought about how much faster the...

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A USDA Community Facilities Direct Loan Helps Build a New YMCA Building in New Hampshire

January 03, 2011 Gregg MacPherson, USDA Rural Development Area Director, Concord, NH

The Keene, New Hampshire YMCA has been operating for 125 years in this town of 22,563 residents. A few years ago, Jack Duggan of Monadnock Economic Development Corporation mentioned to me that the Y was looking toward its future and a new facility. And so the links in the chain started to build...

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The Recovery Act Saves Jobs and Provides Support for North Carolina Facilities and Businesses

December 02, 2010 Delane Johnson, USDA North Carolina Public Information Coordinator

The Franklin Community Volunteer Fire Department, Incorporated in Toast, North Carolina had a problem. The department had outgrown its current facility and was “land locked” with no expansion room.

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Thanks to USDA, Vision Becomes Reality for Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate

November 01, 2010 Tammi Schone, South Dakota USDA Public Information Officer

In the mid-1970’s, the Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate (Sioux Tribe) relocated from a small tribal office building in Sisseton, SD, to establish a new tribal government at the Old Agency Dakota community in Agency Village, SD. Since then, the tribe has grown immensely in population and in services provided...

Rural

Nature Is Their Classroom-USDA Honors a Utah School as they Dedicate new Classrooms

October 28, 2010 Donna Birk, Utah USDA Public Information Officer

Blue Skies and excitement in the air was the setting for the recent celebration of dedicating three new classroom buildings at Soldier Hollow Charter School (SHCS), in Midway, Utah. The new buildings were designed to fit perfectly into the stunning mountain terrain. The school is recognized for its...

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