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Twenty-seven local projects including equipment for first responders, and museum, library and community center improvements recently received more than half a million dollars in funding through grants from the Lower Colorado River Authority.
The $530,000 was awarded through its Community Development Partnership Program for community projects within the LCRA's service areas.
“These grants support projects that make a difference in communities throughout our service area,” LCRA General Manager Phil Wilson said in a statement. “The recipients tell us time and again many of these projects wouldn’t be possible without the grants, but that’s particularly true this year, when so many nonprofits had to cancel or cut back on fundraising efforts because of the pandemic.”
The current batch of grants will benefit such project as Kinney County Fire Rescue, the Rylander Memorial Library in San Saba, and Keep it Real Beautiful in Leakey. Brownwood will receive an $18,466 grant from LCRA for new LED lighting in the main building of the Brown County Museum of History.
Applications for the next grant funding cycle will be accepted through midnight on Jan. 31.
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