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Century Old Hospital Vital to Saving Lives Builds Upon its Legacy with Expansion

March 27, 2023 Jane Asselta, New Jersey State Director for Rural Development

Saving lives is all in a day’s work at Deborah Heart and Lung Center in Browns Mills, New Jersey. In over 100 years of operation, the hospital estimates it has healed 2.3 million patients from every corner of the US and 87 countries around the world.

Rural

USDA Administrator Urges Eligible Applicants to Apply for Flex-Fuel Pump Funding

June 01, 2011 Alec Lloyd, USDA Michigan Public Information Officer

Last week USDA Rural Business-Cooperative Programs Administrator Judith Canales crossed Michigan’s Lower Peninsula at a series of events to highlight flex-fuel options and the availability of renewable energy assistance. She addressed the Michigan Business Incubator Association’s conference...

Energy Rural

New Jersey Charter School Funded By USDA Educates the Leaders of Tomorrow

June 03, 2011 New Jersey USDA Rural Development State Director Howard Henderson

Recently I attended a dedication ceremony along with members of my staff held at the Sussex County Charter School for Technology in the New Jersey community of Sparta. Also in attendance for the dedication were local and school officials as well as Real Estate Advisory Development Services (READS)...

Initiatives Rural

Trump Administration Invests $72 Million in Distance Learning and Telemedicine Infrastructure in 40 States, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands

WASHINGTON, Oct. 7, 2020 – U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue today announced the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) is investing $72 million in grants to help rural residents g ain access to health care and educational opportunities . These investments will benefit more than 12...

USDA in Utah Partners to save Traditional Building Skills

November 17, 2010 Student Reporter, Zach T. Power

Recently Utah’s Snow College and the surrounding community gathered to celebrate the opening of the new Traditional Building Skills Institute (TBSI) building, resulting in job and educational opportunities as well as historic preservation.

Rural

USDA Seeks Applications for Grants to Help Agricultural Producers Increase the Value of Their Products

WASHINGTON, April 8, 2016 – Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced that USDA is making up to $44 million available to farmers, ranchers and businesses to develop new bio-based products and expand markets through the Value-Added Producer Grant program. "America's farmers, ranchers and...

USDA, Other Federal Agencies Join Together to Help an Iowa Community

March 16, 2012 Bill Menner, USDA Rural Development Iowa State Director

Mention to folks that federal agencies work well together and you may receive reactions of disbelief. Sometimes the federal employees, themselves, don’t believe it. But there was a roomful of believers at a recent USDA Rural Roundtable held in Ogden, Iowa. I held more than 40 roundtables across...

Rural

USDA Official Highlights Federal Programs That Help Create Jobs, Provide Access to Capital in Washington and Oregon

February 19, 2013 Phil Eggman (Washington) and Jill Rees (Oregon), USDA Public Affairs

“Show me the money.” You have heard that phrase, right? Made famous by the 1996 film Jerry Maguire, we have all probably heard it said a thousand times, and yet, the phrase remains just as valid today. Owners of rural businesses are asking the same question because finding capital is a major...

Rural

Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe Telephone Authority-The First Indian Company to use USDA Loan Processes-Upgrades Telephone Service for Members

December 17, 2010 Tammi Schone, USDA South Dakota Public Information Officer, information provided by: Christine Sorensen, Rural and Native American Coordinator for South Dakota.

USDA Rural Development South Dakota State Director Elsie Meeks recently awarded the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe (CRST) Telephone Authority headquartered in Eagle Butte a $37.9 million USDA Telecommunication Infrastructure Loan to complete a total fiber to premises build out. Attending the award...

Rural

USDA Sponsored Forums In Alaska Draw Substantial Public Interest

February 05, 2010

We wrapped up the final of four USDA-led jobs forums Monday in Anchorage. As in Fairbanks, Kotzebue and Juneau, area leaders joined with Alaskans from all walks to life to provide input on what works and what doesn’t work when it comes to job creation and retention, especially in rural Alaska.

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