Updated 09/27/2017
The South Central Tennessee Development District will receive a matching grant of $50,000 to fund a preservation specialist staff position.
The money from the Federal Historic Preservation Fund is being given from the Tennessee Historical Commission State Historic Preservation Office, which has awarded 32 matching grants to non-profits, municipalities, universities and civic organizations across the state to support the preservation of historic and archaeological resources.
The Tennessee Historical Commission staff reviewed 51 applications with funding requests totaling approximately $900,000, significantly more than the amount of funding available. Many of the grants are recurring, leaving roughly $250,000 available to award each year.
Updated 09/23/2017
Unemployment rates decreased last month in all 95 counties and significantly dropped in many rural counties, which often have the highest unemployment rates in the state, according to Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam and Department of Labor and Workforce Development Commissioner Burns Phillips.
The county figures were released one week after the state posted an August statewide unemployment rate of 3.3 percent – the lowest in recorded history.
Giles County is not listed among the lowest unemployment rate counties nor on the highest unemployment rate counties.
This is the third time in 2017 in which county unemployment rates decreased statewide. The rates also dropped in all 95 counties in February and April.
