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A mother and three daughters pose around a dining room table. There are lace curtains and blue wall in the background and some dishes on the table in the foreground.

“This is Home” – A Family Finds Their Forever Home in Calais, Maine

One of the first rooms Heather Gagne and her daughters began redecorating in their new home is the dining room, shown in the top photo. They have been busy repainting and making other updates. Raising a family in coastal Machias, Maine may sound lovely, but for Heather Gagne recent years proved stressful. There were few housing options in their Downeast community, and Heather was glad to find a rental home to…
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USDA Rural Development Funds Awarded in Dubois County

USDA Rural Development Funds Awarded in Dubois County The United States Department of Agriculture Rural Development is improving the lives of the residents of Dubois, Pike, and Warrick Counties by presenting a $2,171,690 USDA Rural Development Community Facilities low interest… [Read More]
Community Facilities

USDA Rural Development Funds New Mental Health Facility

USDA Rural Development Funds New Mental Health Facility  The United States Department of Agriculture Rural Development is improving the lives of the residents of LaPorte County and surrounding counties by presenting a $2,000,000 USDA Rural Development Guaranteed Community… [Read More]
Community Facilities
Fire station in Gilbert, Iowa

USDA Rural Development Helps City of Gilbert Celebrate Groundbreaking for Fire Station and Multi-Purpose Building

May 16, 2014 - Staff from USDA Rural Development today participated in a groundbreaking ceremony for a new multi-purpose facility in Gilbert.  The building will house a new fire station, as well as city offices and a community room. USDA Rural Development is providing a $1… [Read More]
Community Facilities

USDA Rural Development’s Program Provides Injection for New Hospital

USDA Rural Development was on hand September 27, 2013, in Tell City, Indiana during a ground breaking ceremony for the new Perry County Hospital.  Utilizing an $40,000,000 Community Facility Direct Loan, Perry County Memorial Hospital has begun construction of an… [Read More]
Community Facilities
Bethany Lutheran Home for the Aged LLC

USDA Supported Project Helps South Dakota Seniors Improve Their Quality of Life

Brandon, South Dakota, with a population of about 9,000, has seen significant growth in the last decade, including the area of senior care. There are two assisted living communities in Brandon, but there has never been a nursing home. This has put strain on both patients and… [Read More]
Community Facilities

USDA Transforms Historic Retail Store into Multi-Family Housing

Outline Of Need: Like many rural communities, Menominee has seen its economy change considerably over the decades.  Located in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula on the border with Wisconsin, a century ago Menominee was a major center for lumber production and later transitioned to… [Read More]
HousingMulti-Family
This is a photo of Michelle Amrine with team members from Ohio Rural Development.

USDA, Habitat for Humanity partner in first-ever Ohio build

  In commemoration of USDA’s annual Homeownership Month, some industrious Ohio Rural Development team members spent a sunny day at a Habitat for Humanity building site, helping Marysville resident Michelle Amrine and her two children frame out a place to call their own.… [Read More]
Homeownership
This photo is from the April 22, 2014 groundbreaking ceremony for a new wastewater treatment project in Erie County, Ohio.

USDA-funded project diverts sewage from Lake Erie watershed

   With nearly 96 percent of the current systems in failure, Erie County Commissioners are using a $5.95 million USDA Rural Development wastewater loan and grant combination to replace on-site waste treatment systems that have been improperly discharging into and… [Read More]
Wastewater

Veterinary Clinic Expanding to Meet Industry Needs

The West River Veterinary Clinic (WRVC) is providing essential animal services in the largely agriculture region of southwestern North Dakota. Initially founded as a mobile practice in 1969, the demand for services quickly brought the need to build a permanent clinic. Since then… [Read More]
BusinessEconomic DevelopmentRural Development
new lagoon system

Village of Creston Updates Its Sewer System

The Village of Creston was being served by a sewer system which had a two-cell waste stabilization lagoon system in 1969.  The existing lagoon system lacked sufficient storage capacity and the discharge lines were leaking.  Additionally, the lagoons were constructed in… [Read More]
WastewaterWater

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