Commissioners to apply for grants for county improvement

Editor’s note: This version corrects that the Hill County government is working on the planning portion of a federal grant, not the building grant itself.

The Hill County commissioners met Thursday morning and discussed what to do if they received funding from the planning portion of a federal grant, for which the commission is working on applying.

The commission is applying for the planning portion of a building grant, a federal rural transportation grant of $1.5 billion, from which each entity can request is $25 million. Also, a state can receive $150 million.

County Commissioner Mark Peters...