{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["http://kuster.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/kuster-announces-250000-northern-border-regional-commission-grant-to-the", "Kuster Announces $250,000 Northern Border Regional Commission Grant to the Town of Littleton", "2014-09-19", "2014", "2014-09", "Democrat", "House", "NH", "Ann Kuster", "K000382", "kuster.house.gov", null, null, "legacy", "LITTLETON, N.H. \u2013 Representative Annie Kuster (NH-02) today announced that the Town of Littleton has received a $250,000 grant from the Northern Border Regional Commission.\u00a0 Littleton will use the funding to build a downtown bridge for pedestrians, bicycles, and other off-road vehicles.\u00a0\u00a0\n\u201cThe redevelopment of Littleton\u2019s River District will continue to boost the city\u2019s economy and culture,\u201d said Congresswoman Kuster.\u00a0 \u201cThis grant will allow Littleton to build a bridge that will drive the redevelopment project forward and benefit Littleton\u2019s Main Street businesses.\u00a0 I congratulate Littleton on this grant award and look forward to seeing this exciting project make progress.\u201d\nLast winter, Kuster toured the redevelopment project and met with local planners and business leaders to discuss its impacts on the Littleton economy.\nIn addition to this grant award to Littleton, the Northern Border Regional Commission also awarded the following grants:\n A $161,670 grant award to the Women's Rural Entrepreneurial Network in Berlin for the purchase of a storefront building to serve as office space, entrepreneurial training center and \"maker space.\"\n\t\t\u00a0\n\tA $250,000 grant to the Coos Economic Development Council for a cell tower on Cummings Mountain.\n\t\t\u00a0\n\tA $200,000\u00a0grant to the Northern Community Investment Corporation for the improvement of the NH Grand website project.\n\t\t\u00a0\n\tA $106,695 grant to the\u00a0University of New Hampshire, to expand the broadband mapping program in Coos County.\n The Northern Border Regional Commission was established to support and promote economic growth projects within the northern portions of the four\u2010state region of Maine, New Hampshire, New York, and Vermont.", 1, "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z", "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["http://kuster.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/kuster-announces-250000-northern-border-regional-commission-grant-to-the"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.6793770007789135, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}