We're hiring!
Date Posted: 05-08-2013
The scope of work that Stafford County Economic Development is doing has expanded and we need more hands on deck to carry projects and programs to successful completion.   We are currently taking applications for a Program Director who will be responsible for implementing the programs that Stafford...

Foothold for Housing
Date Posted: 04-24-2013
After completing a Housing Assessment template provided by the Federal Home Loan Bank, which required us to gather information from national databases, the Stafford County Appraisers Office, as independent surveying, one issue seems to be in need of attention: housing. While some houses indeed are vacant,...

Building a Healthier Community
Date Posted: 04-09-2013
Rallied together through a common goal, the growers of Stafford County EcoDevo's High Tunnel Project, assisted by three students of SJHS, and lead by KSU Extension Agent, Cary Rivard, constructed the first of five high tunnel growing structures.Originally set to be built in Mid-February, the construction...

Adventures to Atwood
Date Posted: 03-05-2013
Up in the corners or North West Kansas, located in Rawlins County, is another charming town called Atwood. Much like St. John, Stafford and Macksville, this small town was struggling after the steady population decline, a decline that has been effecting small Kansas towns since the 1950's. Unlike...

Growing Stafford County
Date Posted: 02-27-2013
In the past months, Stafford County has been plastered with fluorescent letters talking about a High Tunnel Project. They asked people to come to meetings. To fill out applications. To come by and pick out brains. Well they came, they applied and they certainly picked our brains....