WAITSBURG - The city of Waitsburg received two grants totaling about $700,000 to update Seventh Street between Main and Arnold Streets. One of the grants is $615,000 and is supplied by the Department of Transportation and the remainder of the $700,000 is funded by the state Transpor- tation Improvement Board.

City Administrator Randy Hinchcliffe said the bid for a contractor will be awarded at the March City Council meeting and the project will begin on May 1.

For the first week of May, the contractor will remove trees and prepare for the utility companies to move pow- er poles for the fina...