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Weed Gets Infrastructure Money From Feds

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South Weed with Mount Shasta in the background.
Daniel Mayer, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=8935963

Maybe the big infrastructure bill President Trump promised has not emerged.  But specific projects are getting approved, including in our region. 

The city of Weed has some money coming from the federal government, $2.4 Million for improvements in and around the South Weed Interchange. 

How much of an effect can working on one interchange have on the local economy?  The city says up to 80 jobs.  City Manager Ron Stock and Tonya Dowse from the Siskiyou Economic Development Council explain.   

 

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Geoffrey Riley is a graduate of the University of Missouri School of Journalism and has hosted the Jefferson Exchange on JPR since 2009. He's been a broadcaster in the Rogue Valley for more than 35 years, working in both television and radio.
April Ehrlich is JPR content partner at Oregon Public Broadcasting. Prior to joining OPB, she was a regional reporter at Jefferson Public Radio where she won a National Edward R. Murrow Award.