Bear Paw gets new grant to help local economy during pandemic

The federal government has awarded a local agency additional funds to help the local area weather the COVID-19 pandemic.

Bear Paw Development Corp. received a $400,000 grant through the Economic Development Administration as part of the federal government’s response to COVID-19.

“We’re very pleased about it,” Bear Paw Development Corp. Executive Director Paul Tuss said. “The EDA has been a foundational partner of ours for 51 years now. We are Montana’s longest-serving economic district and we’ve got a very solid relationship with the Economic Development Administration, and so we are very plea...