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UP entities to benefit from Neighborhood Enhancement Program grants

LANSING, MI— Two grants are headed to the U.P. to help residents make home repairs, energy efficiency upgrades and neighborhood amenity improvements.

The Neighborhood Enhancement Program provides funding for an array of small-scale single-family home rehabilitation activities like roofs, siding, windows, doors and accessibility improvements. Up to 50 percent of the funding can also go toward public amenity activities like park improvements, basketball courts and more.

The City of Ironwood is getting $45,000 and the Gogebic-Ontonagon Community Action Agency has been awarded $30,000.

The funding will be distributed to 11 local units of government and 22 nonprofit agencies serving both urban and rural communities statewide.

Nicole was born near Detroit but has lived in the U.P. most of her life. She graduated from Marquette Senior High School and attended Michigan State and Northern Michigan Universities, graduating from NMU in 1993 with a degree in English.