Posted by Eric on March 11th, 2009 | Categorized as News | Tagged as bredesen, grant, transportation, upper cumberland, Van Buren, warren
March 11, 2009
NASHVILLE – Governor Phil Bredesen today awarded $100,662 in federal transit grant funds to the Upper Cumberland Human Resource Agency to expand intercity bus service along the Cumberland Plateau in Putnam, Clay, Pickett, Fentress, Overton, Jackson, Smith, Cumberland, Dekalb, White, Warren and Van Buren Counties. The funds will be used to provide Tennessee’s [...]
Posted by Eric on January 13th, 2009 | Categorized as News | Tagged as agriculture, assistance, grants, Van Buren
NASHVILLE – Governor Phil Bredesen today announced that the U.S. Department of Agriculture has designated nine more counties in Tennessee as natural disaster areas for agriculture due to drought conditions in 2008.
“In addition to dealing with financial difficulties, just like other sectors of our economy, farmers were hit hard by extreme weather conditions this [...]