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Improvements approved for county airport
By Jacob Clary - jclary@aimmediamidwest.com
Highland County commissioners David Daniels (left) and Terry Britton are pictured during their weekly Wednesday meeting.
The Highland County Board of Commissioners approved a contract to improve the Highland County Airport at its weekly meeting Wednesday.
The contract is a Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) project, and Terry Britton, a member of the board of commissioners, said the project will cost about $303,570. He said the project will be a 90/10 split, where the FAA will pay for 90 percent of it about $273,513 and Highland County will pay for the other 10 percent.
NGR, county talk about solar
By Tim Colliver - tcolliver@aimmediamidwest.com
From left, David Daniels, Jeff Duncan and Terry Britton are shown during Wednesday’s meeting of the Highland County Board of Commissioners.
Tim Colliver | The Times-Gazette
The Highland County Board of Commissioners met in executive session Wednesday with representatives of National Grid Renewables (NGR) on matters described as “economic development.”
NGR Market Lead and Senior Developer Darek Hasek and developer Sarah Eberly met with the commissioners to discuss progress being made on the Dodson Creek Solar Farm Project, which is one of 10 solar electric generating facilities either in the planning or construction phase in and around Highland County.