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Branding for Communities: Links to Stories

Branding is a new category for the Rural Resurrection website. Understanding the need for the development and implementation of a brand is important for every community. Provided below is a… Read more »

Branding for Communities: Flags

“Branding for Communities: Flags” is the latest posting in the Branding for Communities series. Understanding the need for the development and implementation of a brand is important for every community…. Read more »

What is a Bypass Impact Study?

Often, communities work for decades to entice their state to invest in significant improvements to the highways that serve their communities. The potential economic impact of a 2-lane to 4-lane… Read more »

The Floods of 2019: Links to the Stories

Rural Resurrection covered the Floods of 2019 through a series of posts since floodwaters first impacted the upper Midwest. The coverage of the event and how communities have worked to… Read more »

2019 Flood Recovery: Helping with Flood Buckets

Helping with Flood Buckets is the latest in a series of posts about how rural communities were impacted and are striving to recover from the floods of 2019. Craig, Missouri… Read more »

RAGBRAI ’22: Agritourism Shines on Day One

When most people think of activities at RAGBRAI, they think of the towns, but there’s quite a bit of agritourism going on as well. That was a fact out of… Read more »

Buchanan Supports Small Business Saturday

It’s November again and Small Business Saturday is almost on us once again. Last year I wrote about the need for your community to Support Small Business Saturday. This year… Read more »

RAGRAI 2022: West Union Goes Green – Part 2

Last week we took a look at the West Union Green Streets Pilot Project and how it came about. West Union was an overnight town during RAGBRAI in 2022 and… Read more »

RAGRAI 2022: West Union Goes Green – Part 1

One of the overnight towns along the RAGBRAI route was West Union, in Fayette County, Iowa. Thousands of riders, and their support crews, rode into town during the event. They… Read more »