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A blog from the Center for Small Towns, a community outreach organization operated through the University of Minnesota, Morris. The Center prides itself on meeting the needs of small towns and organizations through a flexible, multi-faceted, community focused approach.

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Month: January 2015

Staff Voices: Responding to the Star Tribune

The narrative of our rural areas can have a major impact on people retention and recruitment efforts. This past Sunday, the Star Tribune published a front-page article titled “Urban-Rural Split in Minnesota Grows Deeper, Wider”. The context of the article is based on the political shifts that happened in the last election cycle in our […]

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The "Fireball of Hoffman" and CST Work Together

http://bit.ly/1ByabxL Muriel Krusemark is ”the fireball of Hoffman, Minnesota”, according to MPR News and The Center for Small Towns (CST) has been lucky enough to work with Krusemark on a variety of projects throughout the years. Just this fall CST has been focused on assisting Muriel with a revamp of the Hoffman Farmers Market. The […]

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Student Voices: Non-Profit Mentorship Program in Stevens County

My name is Ellis Sherman, and I worked with the Stevens County commissioner, Jeane Ennen, on the Stevens County Mentorship Project as a CST student researcher. We’ve all heard the old folk saying; “it takes a village to raise a child”? Well, that is exactly what Stevens County Community Mentorship Project’s is all about. Which […]

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