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Implementation Month: Resources

Rural Resurrection has declared January as National Implementation Month! So let the festivities begin! But where do you start? Last year we discussed the need to create a Implementation Matrix…. Read more »

National Implementation Month 2021

In January 2020 I declared that January would henceforth become National Implementation Month. This idea was developed as a follow-up to an October 2019 article related to National Planning Month… Read more »

Looking Back on 2020

Usually, as we move toward the start of another year many of us look back fondly at the various events that took place. We may also reflect on the happenings… Read more »

Support Business Community COVID-19 Contributions

This post the latest in Rural Resurrection’s ongoing series regarding COVID-19. Rural Resurrection will be posting regularly about the virus’ impact on rural governments and what local leaders can do…. Read more »

Downtown Clarinda a Model of Local Buy-In

Clarinda is a small town of a little over 5,000 persons in southwest Iowa, just a relatively short jaunt from my hometown of Red Oak. Early in its history, Clarinda’s… Read more »

Ghost Towns: Lemoyne, Nebraska

Ghost Towns is a relatively new category for the Rural Resurrection website. Our first posting in this category was on Mystic, South Dakota. There’s an old saying, “Those who cannot… Read more »

Kansas Main Street Affiliate Community Program

Recently Kansas Governor Laura Kelly announced the creation of the Kansas Main Street Affiliate Community Program. The Kansas Main Street program was originally launched in 1985. Although it was ended… Read more »

Sleeping in a Gas Station? Sure!

You see it quite often. A run-down former gas station sitting empty along one of the main roads through town. Often, it’s pumps have been removed long ago, but the… Read more »

Celebrate GIS Day 2020! – Ok, what is it?

On November 18, 2020 the world will celebrate GIS Day. Ok, maybe not the whole world. I’m sure there’s a majority of people in the world that don’t even know… Read more »

HGTV Home Town Announced

Back in January I posted about the new series on HGTV entitled, Home Town Takeover. It’s a spin off of Erin and Bill Napier’s hit series Home Town to renovate a… Read more »