What's New

Statement of Purpose The purpose of the Meeker County Heritage Tourism Assessment and  Planning Grant is to form a partnership to assess heritage tourism sites, activities, and events in Meeker County and develop a strategic plan to coordinate, promote, and improve access to these sites and activities. This plan will assist communities and historic organizationsRead More

Great example of the “Brain Gain” coming to our rural communities. This article focuses in on a young man that moves to Dassel here in Meeker County. http://www.startribune.com/i-m-a-millennial-who-traded-big-city-minneapolis-for-rural-minnesota/398699841/

Twenty Four leaders from Litchfield and Litchfeild Area attended The BCLP for a week in Grand Rapids MN. This Leadership training was made possible from a grant from the Blandin Foundation. This training helps 24 leaders to come back to Litchfield and help develop leadership distribution in 9 core areas of identified for a heathly community. PleaseRead More

Labor and Workforce is the most immediate threat to our businesses today. Please read the article below. It shows the we have not built up our workforce for the shortages coming. What strategies do we need to apply now to counter act this trend in Meeker County? http://www.businessinsider.com/adp-private-payrolls-july-2016-2016-8

This is a great report from MNADO that helps us to all understand what issues we need to work on economically in Greater MN. This is a great read and shows great leadership in identifying areas to improve, as well as action steps to help counter the affects of things that affect labor, jobs, housing, and investment inRead More

  We are looking to Build Leaders The Blandin Community Leadership Program (BCLP) is a nationally recognized leadership program with over 7000 alumni throughout the state of Minnesota and is excited to be serving the communities in the Litchfield area. The BCLP is leadership training for building healthy community by investing in the most importantRead More

Our new Youtube pages gives you great insight to our top companies in Meeker County. Please check them out and comment if you like what you see. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCL4Sp6xacQ_yfSIK622q8dQ

  This weeks Independent review did a great job on our new MDC site and features. Our future is bright and so is Meeker County. “Make it Meeker” http://www.crowrivermedia.com/independentreview/news/business/development-group-s-new-message-make-it-meeker/article_9a058393-bb14-544e-aa17-18300a9e2076.html

Please take the time to familiarize yourself with this information on Broadband. Its worth the read and time. http://www.ruralmn.org/publications/broadband101/

http://blandinonbroadband.org/2016/04/06/center-for-rural-policy-and-development-fact-sheet-on-rural-broadband-great-to-for-policy-makers/   This article gives good pointers on broad band in your county and city.