Get the facts on the ¼ penny for economic development.
This November, you get an opportunity to vote “YES” to continue the ¼ penny sales tax for economic development. (That’s just 1/400th of a dollar!) Here are the facts about the ¼ penny sales tax, and how we put ¼ penny funds to use right here in Goshen County. Funds collected from the ¼ penny sales tax help local businesses start up, expand, and relocate. Want to know which of your favorite businesses we’ve helped grow? Find out here! ¼ penny sales tax funds go toward making community improvements. Click here to see which ones… and where! Thanks to ¼ [...]
Bear Creek Rubs, LLC – Progress Program
September 2, 2022 Photo includes: Judith Bartmann, Owner of Bear Creek Rubs, LLC; Moriah Harkins, Membership and Marketing Manager, Goshen Economic Development Torrington, WY --- Goshen Economic Development (GED) presented Bear Creek Rubs, LLC with a grant utilizing ¼ cent sales tax for economic development funding. The grant will help fund the cost of the trademark process, granting them full ownership of their brand. Bear Creek Rubs, LLC has come a long way from farmers’ markets and craft shows to creating a website in 2020 to kick-start growing its company beyond Goshen County. They continue to expand the locations [...]
WyoBraska Family Practice – Ribbon Cutting
August 19, 2022 WyoBraska Family Practice friends and family with Goshen Economic Development Staff and Board Members during the ribbon cutting Torrington, WY --- Goshen Economic Development is pleased to welcome WyoBraska Family Practice, a new business in Goshen County located on 2810 W B St, Torrington, Wyoming. GED Team was joined by family, friends and community members in the ribbon-cutting ceremony to commemorate the opening of WyoBraska Family Practice and presented owner Aaron Rutz his first dollar of profit. WyoBraska Family Practice is located inside the same building as Steamboat Chiropractic Health and Wellness. Aaron specializes in chronic [...]
Working Together to Take Care of Each Other
When it comes to looking out for each other, Goshen County residents do it best. In fact, one of the most impactful ways you’ve taken care of your neighbors has been voting to continue the ¼ penny sales tax, which funds our Progress Program. Through the Progress Program program, we’ve awarded $1.2 million in grant funds to Goshen County businesses, non-profits, and municipalities. Some of the funding has gone toward economic development projects; some has made community improvement projects possible; and some has gone toward important infrastructure projects that take care of our communities—and enhance the quality of life for [...]
ELK ECO CYCLE – RECYCLING
Aug 2, 2022 ELK Eco Cycle Recycling Facility Torrington, WY --- Goshen Economic Development welcomes a new non-profit to Torrington. ELK Eco Cycle is a recycling company located in the old City of Torrington recycling facility. A partnership between ELK, City of Torrington, and Goshen Economic Development, the venture offers self-serve depositories for pre-sorted aluminum cans, clean steel cans, and cardboard. Loose paper products must be delivered during business hours, usually 8-10AM M-F. Blue dumpsters for cardboard are located at select businesses throughout Torrington. ELK is locally owned and operated by Kurt L. Evezich. ELK Eco Cycle is located [...]
Together, We Make Our Community A Better Place!
When it comes to building community, progress is key—and by working together with neighbors like you, we’ve made incredible progress right here in Goshen County.Over the years, as you’ve chosen to renew the ¼ penny sales tax, you’ve also chosen to be part of creating progress. All funds collected through the ¼ penny sales tax are used to fund our Progress Program, and through that program, we’ve awarded $1.2 million in grant funds to our community businesses, non-profits, and municipalities.As a Goshen County resident, that means you’ve played an important part in: Bringing a splash pad [...]
Leann Mattis hired as Community Development Director
June 30, 2022 Torrington, WY --- Goshen Economic Development welcomes Leann Mattis as the Community Development Director, working under the Wyoming Main Street umbrella. Leann will be responsible for small business development through attraction, retention, expansion and entrepreneurial support as well as community and Main Street beautification and events. Leann graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in Communication from the University of Wyoming in 2007. While attending UW, she was a member of the cheerleading squad and dance team. She has a background in recruitment, radio production/broadcasting and journalism. Leann and her husband Matt have two children, Ava [...]
Progress Program – Torrington Rotary Club
June 28, 2022 Scott Prusia GED Board President; Nate Hibben Rotary President; Jeff Jones GED Vice-President and Rotarian; Al Meloni GED Secretary/Treasurer and Rotarian; Brett Malm Rotary Past-President; Brayden Connour GED CEO and John Hansen, Rotarian. Torrington, WY --- Goshen Economic Development awarded the Torrington Rotary Club with a Progress Program grant in the amount of $5,000 to help offset the cost of a new Audio/Video system upgrade at the Cottonwood Country Club, where Rotary meetings are held weekly. The system currently in use is antiquated and was in need of an upgrade to better serve members and the [...]
TORRINGTON CINEMAS – PROGRESS PROGRAM
June 13, 2022 Photo includes: Brayden Connour, CEO Goshen Economic Development; Marie Flanagan, Torrington Cinemas; Scott Prusia, President of Goshen Economic Development Board Torrington, WY --- Goshen Economic Development (GED) presented Torrington Cinemas with a grant utilizing ¼ cent sales tax for economic development funding. The grant will be used to help offset the cost of repairing its projectors. After the theater purchase, the projectors were found in disrepair and needing work. Brandon and Marie Flanagan opened Torrington Cinemas at the end of March. GED is thankful the Flanagan’s reopened this staple of downtown Torrington. Goshen Economic Development – [...]
Economic Development: What We’ve Accomplished Together
The work we get to do here at Goshen Economic Development is possible only because we have generous neighbors like you! Each year that you’ve chosen to renew the ¼ penny sales tax, which funds our Progress Program, we’ve been able to put those collected funds to work—a total of $1.2 million, to be exact—right here in our community. For example, because we have neighbors like you: Landowners without a tractor have an affordable way to complete area seeding. Both the Lingle-Fort Laramie Conservation District and North Platte Valley Conservation District used their Progress Program [...]
