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Podcast: The Valley Today
Episode: Economic Development in Rural Communities
Description: Our conversation today is part of an ongoing partnership with the US Small Business Administration highlighting small businesses as well as offering advice and resources to small businesses. Our topic today was economic development in rural communities. We talked with John Fleming, Mid-Atlantic Regional Administrator for the US Small Business Administration and Alfreda Jarrett Reynolds, Director of Economic Development for Brunswick County, VA. John explained what the SBA is doing to support small businesses and economic development in rural communities. We talked about what constitutes a rural area and he told us how the SBA...