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Secretary Vilsack Meets Tennessee Stakeholders to Discuss USDA Supported Flex-Fuel Opportunities

June 02, 2011 David Glasgow, USDA Tennessee Public Information Coordinator

Secretary Tom Vilsack recently joined a Round Table of regional stakeholders in Nashville to discuss ways that USDA can help rural fuel station owners and cooperatives increase the availability and use of flex-fuels. About eight million cars and trucks on the road in the U.S. today can use E85 fuel...

Energy Rural

Job Seekers to Have State-of-the Art Equipment at Pittston, Pennsylvania, Library

June 02, 2011 Dawn Knepp, USDA Pennsylvania Public Information Officer

A large crowd of local officials, library patrons and staff filled the children’s section of the Pittston Memorial Library in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, on a hot May afternoon to hear good news from Senator Robert Casey. Smiles abounded as Senator Casey announced that the library is receiving a...

Rural

Thanks to USDA, a South Dakota Mom, Children and Grandmother have a Home of Their Own

June 02, 2011 Tammi Schone, USDA South Dakota Public Information Officer

Tonya Clyde, a single mother of two young children was in the process of a divorce and living in a home owned by her soon to be ex-husband. She needed to find a home for herself, her children, and her 86-year old grandmother. Since she had always been a stay at home mom and never held a job, she was...

Rural