SWWRPC to Help Local Farmers with “Buy Local, Buy Wisconsin” Grant

Thanks to a $22,700 grant from the Wisconsin Department of Agriculture‘s “Buy Local, Buy Wisconsin” program, SWWRPC is helping to improve distribution costs for farms of Southwestern Wisconsin. Distribution costs, including truck purchase and maintenance, gas prices, and employee time for travel, are often a major hurdle for the small farms of our rural region. [...]

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SWWRPC Writes Grant for Belmont’s Wastewater Treatment Plant

With help from SWWRPC, the Village of Belmont will collect $1.45 million in Economic Development Administration funds from the U.S. Department of Commerce to upgrade and expand its wastewater treatment plant which is estimated to cost $2.5 million.  The money is expected to retain up to 130 jobs in the coming year, lead to the [...]

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Who Needs Regional Government?

My father used to read me bedtime stories. One that impressed me was the story about the sons who were fighting amongst themselves.  The father gathered them together and gave the youngest and smallest a stick and told him to break it, which he did easily.  Then he took a large bundle of sticks and [...]

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Grant County Adopts ‘Smart Growth’ Comprehensive Plan

With help from SWWRPC, Grant County adopted its own Smart Growth Comprehensive Plan on December 15th 2009.  For over 2 years, SWWRPC staff has worked with Grant County, along with 35 other jurisdictions within, to create and adopt plans to guide land use decisions. With the adoption of Grant County’s plan, all counties within the [...]

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Ed White attends national post-disaster workgroup meeting

The International Economic Development Council (IEDC), the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s Business Civic Leadership Center (BCLC), and the National Association of Development Organizations (NADO) convened a group of 27 stakeholders on December 15-17, 2009 at the Edward Lowe Foundation Leadership Center in Cassopolis, MI to discuss the subject of post-disaster economic recovery.  Funding for the [...]

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