Electric City expects $1 million in improvements

Electric City has received word that it was awarded a $735,000 grant for major street repair.

The grant requires a 5-percent match of nearly $37,000.

City Clerk Russell Powers said the state Transportation Improvement Board grant will enable the city to put in new streets, curbs and sidewalks that will connect the city’s two new proposed park sites.

The work “is planned for 2018,” Powers stated, a...