Stories from Thursday, November 10, 2011

The City of Butterfield is ready to break ground on its second well, possibly as early as Thanksgiving week. In recent council action, aldermen voted to turn down the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) loan in the amount of $378,000 and a grant for $572,000 for the city's water improvement project. Aldermen were advised that no monies for the project would be available in 2012, that the interest rate on the project had escalated and the total loan amount had been lowered...