Highland County commissioners Brad Roades, Terry Britton and David Daniels received a request for improvements to a barn at the Highland County Fairgrounds and provided brief updates on several ongoing county projects during their Wednesday, March 26 meeting.
Silver Spurs 4-H Club adviser and Highland County Junior Fair Horse Barn Superintendent Donna Griffith met with commissioners to ask the county to consider contributing funding toward upgrades to the horse barn at the fairgrounds.
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You probably know it was built in 1960, and very little upgrades have been made to the barn since then,” Griffith said. “We’ve had new electric put in, some metal on the front of the barn, but other than that, it’s the original barn. The stalls are in terrible shape…