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Disaster Recovery Housing Awards Announced

Back in May Rural Resurrection posted about the Nebraska Department of Economic Development’s (DED) announcement to open up the application process for a special round of grant funding to help… Read more »

Be Prepared, Not Scared – Disaster Preparedness

September is National Preparedness Month. Each year National Preparedness Month is recognized to promote family and community disaster and emergency planning. This year’s theme is “Prepared, Not Scared.” The Ready.gov… Read more »

RAGBRAI 2019 Winners

Iowa’s annual bike ride across the state is not intended to be a race. There are no winners, no first losers, or third place finishers. It is just a rolling… Read more »

RAGBRAI 2019 is Just Around the Corner

It’s mid-July and that means that RAGBRAI 2019 is just around the corner. This year the annual biking event will be traversing the southern half of Iowa on the way… Read more »

Verdigre Striving to Rebuild

One of the communities hardest hit by the March floods was Verdigre, Nebraska. This small community in northeast Nebraska was inundated by the Niobrara River when the Spencer Dam broke,… Read more »

Is Your Town “Ready” for Redevelopment?

While attending the National Planning Conference in San Francisco this year I attended a session titled, “Redefining Planning and Economic Development”. The main topic of the session was Michigan’s Redevelopment… Read more »

Funding Available for Farmers Impacted by Flooding

In this ongoing series regarding disaster recovery in light of the recent floods in the Midwest Rural Resurrection has highlighted a number of different aspects of disaster recovery. One of… Read more »

Flooding in Missouri Taking its Toll

Most of the recent posts about the Midwest floods on Rural Resurrection have been about Nebraska or Iowa. However, a number of communities throughout the Midwest have been devastated by… Read more »