SHANNON ⢠More than $400,000 in federal money will allow the city of Shannon to expand its natural gas service south past the city limits.
Phase 1 of the project will add more than 140 households in the Pine Grove community. Later phases will reach out further into southwest Lee County and even into Monroe and Chickasaw counties.
The initial funding will come from a $429,000 Community Development Block Grant. Because the project will serve low to middle income residents, many of them elderly and on fixed incomes, the city will not be required to provide matching funds.
Shannon Mayor Ronnie Hallmark said the project, and the grant money that will fund it, means a lot to the residents of Shannon and Lee County.