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Photo caption: The historic district of Grand Coteau, Louisiana. Photo courtesy Facebook/Town of Grand Coteau. A bill to help the state’s small rural communities to fund infrastructure projects and ...

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PIERRE, S.D. — Interest rates for the Rural Development Loan through the Governor’s Office of Economic Development for South Dakota have recently been lowered. The interest rate was lowered from 4.5% ...