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“Locally Grown” podcast for 02.03.06: Economic development

Griff Wigley posted on Feb 06 2006 at 09:40

This content originally appeared on Northfield.org.

Issues covered in show #6 of Locally Grown, recorded in the KRLX 88.1 FM studio at Carleton last Friday afternoon: The EDA and the forthcoming economic development plan. See EDA member Tracy Davis’ weblog post Economic Development Plan - “Context Mapping” session which contains the PowerPoint presentation and Community Assessment - TIP Strategies (DRAFT) which contains the PDF document.

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