Mayor: State agrees to $50,000 grant for a woodchipper

The state Dept. of Ecology may be about to provide the community with a woodchipper to help with community cleanup of wood debris during annual cleanup times — if it comes in time.

Electric City Mayor Diane Kohout told the Regional Board of Mayors Feb. 1 that Ecology has said the board can apply for, and receive, $50,000 in funding for a chipper that handles annual yard cleanup wood waste the comm...