Forming a Multi-Community Alliance The three small towns of Dayton, Elmo and Big Arm form a u-shaped area around Flathead Lake in stunningly beautiful northwestern Montana. The community of Elmo was selected to participate in Horizons — a community leadership program sponsored by the Northwest Area Foundation. When their neighbors in the towns of Big […]
Sustainable Financing for Rural Minnesota
Put Your Money Where Your Farm Is The national economy has been thriving in recent years. Unfortunately, rural communities have often been left behind as corporate consolidations continue at an accelerating rate and as business activity has drifted to larger centers of commerce. To sustain Minnesota’s rural communities economically, the rural citizenry should be able […]
A Pearl in the Making
A Pearl in the Making In Tonasket, Washington, a beautiful river valley town just 23 miles from the Canadian border, leaders are “thinking locally first.” This concept of economic development — keeping residents’ dollars circulating locally — was awakened when the town nearly lost their hardware store. “Our hardware store was destroyed in a fire,” […]
Originals Casual Wear
Along North Dakota’s eastern edge, just 30 miles south of the Canadian border, visitors quickly sense that community runs deep and strong in Drayton — as strong as the catfish that challenge even the most adept fishermen who regularly fish the Red River of the North which winds through one of North Dakota’s oldest communities, […]
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