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February 22, 2012

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Online ticket sales

Contact the Box Office at 606-677-6000 as system is upgraded.

New training classes

If you’re interested in building your skills in one of today’s leading spreadsheet software application programs, or learning how to customize your email messages, then The Center for Rural Development —Your Center of Learning—stands ready to help you do just that and much more in 2012. The Center announces three new instructor-led training classes in [...]

SRTB-RC’s 2011 Institute

The Rev. Kevin Billiot had never done any police work until April, when he was appointed chief of the department in little Montgomery, near the Kisatchie National Forest in central Louisiana.

RS Ambassadors give back

Lonnie Lawson, far left, president and CEO of The Center for Rural Development, and Emily Phillips, far right, youth programs coordinator and community liaison for The Center, join Rogers Scholars Ambassadors, front row, seated from left, Kathryn Crawford, Science Hill; Meredith Thompson, Tompkinsville; Sarah Crawford, Science Hill; and back row, front left, Faith Call, Somerset; [...]

Apply now for Rogers Scholars

Applicants have until Jan. 31 to apply for both Rogers Scholars and ELI.

SRTB-RC helps La. police department

A Kentucky program that provides technology assistance for small and rural law enforcement agencies across the nation helped Christmas come early for a rural Louisiana police department. Police Chief Kevin Billiot of Montgomery, La., was one of 31 participants in the Fall 2011 Rural Law Enforcement Technology Institute, a national conference hosted Dec. 4-8 in [...]

The Center receives 7 state awards

The Center for Rural Development garnered seven awards and statewide recognition for its public relations and marketing efforts in the 2011 Kentucky Association of Government Communicators (KAGC) Awards of Excellence contest. The Center received the awards Dec. 14 at the KAGC annual reception and awards celebration held at the historic Berry Hill Mansion in Frankfort, [...]

Volume 3.7: The Center Insider

Get the latest edition of The Center Insider! Coverage on the launch of the Appalachian Rural Development Philanthropy Initiative (ARDPI) The Center’s Christmas 2011 activities Forward in the Fifth’s 25th anniversary celebration New educational LEAP grant recipients

Microsoft makes grant donation

Technology can do amazing things, and a grant from the Microsoft Corporation is helping The Center for Rural Development further its mission as a leading provider of educational technology services. The Center, a nonprofit organization based in Somerset, has been awarded a $51,434 grant for Microsoft software to provide technology-based educational services and support to [...]

Demonstration Day at the Institute

 Nearly 40 chiefs, sheriffs, and command officers present for the Fall 2011 Rural Law Enforcement Technology Institute today participated in a law enforcement demonstration day at the Bay Bridge Airport near Annapolis, MD. Activities included demonstrations of a low-cost firearms simulator, flights in light-sport aircraft used in the NLECTC Law Enforcement Aviation Program, and visits at informational booths, [...]

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