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your homegrown newspaper May 29, 2024
Vol. 20, No. 37
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Bears pg. 8
RONAN MAKES PLANS
SUMMER GODDARD / VALLEY JOURNAL
Sjaan Vincent, Westyn Kiehn, Robbie Gauthier and Brennin Grainey discuss the draft plans and what they’d like to see for downtown Ronan.
Five-year strategic, downtown master plans to create roadmap for growth By Summer Goddard Valley Journal
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RONAN — The Ronan Revitalization committee met with representatives from KLJ Engineering on May 21 to review draft reports of a Downtown
Master Plan and 5-year Economic Development Strategic Plan. Ronan Revitalization is a subcommittee of the Ronan Area Chamber of Commerce with representation from the City of Ronan and Mission West Community Devel-
opment Partners tasked with the revitalization of downtown Ronan. At the end of 2022, Montana’s Main Street Program chose Ronan as the recipient of a $50,000 grant to develop a Downtown Master Plan. Mission West Communi-
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ty Development Partners then leveraged those dollars to gain an additional $50,000 to be used for the development of a 5-year Economic Development Strategic Plan. “This $100,000 grant to develop a downtown master plan is a result of
the partnership between the chamber, the city and Mission West,” said Ronan Revitalization Chair Whitney Liegakos. “It really took all three of our organizations to make this happen.” see page 2