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Funding and Financing Available for Farm and Small Business Energy Projects

Rural Energy for America (REAP) funding through USDA is now available for efficiency and renewables for Minnesota farmers and rural businesses.  There is twice as much funding available this year and the application is shorter and can work to fund

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January Board Packet

The January Board Packet is now available.

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December Newsletter is now available

The December Newsletter is now available!

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Statewide Freight & Passenger Rail Plan – Open House

MnDOT is in the process of updating the Statewide Freight and Passenger Rail Plan. The plan’s primary purpose is to establish guidance and priorities for the state transportation decisions—ensuring that efficient, competitive services are available

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Art Sales Increase for 2014 Meander

The reports from 42 different artists are in and the numbers point to a 12% increase in average sales per artist during the 2014 Meander Upper Minnesota River Arts Crawl. According to Kristi Fernholz, Senior Planner for the Upper Minnesota Valley

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Pedestrian and Bicycle Safety Training comes to Appleton

The UMVRDC was happy to host Michelle and CJ from The Bicycle Alliance of Minnesota (BikeMN) on Wednesday, October 29th. BikeMN brought their recent Walk! Bike! Fun! curriculum to Appleton to train educators and officers from across the five county

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2015 Community Assistantship Program Grant

Community Based Research (CBR) is where community knowledge and University knowledge come together to solve the problems of our time. Merging community knowledge with the resources and expertise of the University sheds new light on today’s challenges

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Upcoming Border to Border Broadband Conference

Join us for Border to Border Broadband on November 18-19, 2014 at Cragun's Resort located near Brainerd. Earlier this fall, over the course of three weeks, three national organizations working on driving Internet access, adoption and use came to

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