Albany city council members chose to submit an application for funding through the Texas Water Development Board’s Drinking Water State Revolving Fund Lead Service LineReplacementProgram to hopefully finance a little overhalfofwhatisbeingrequired bythestateanyway.

Officials table agreement decision Well over half of Monday’s two-hour meeting of the Shackelford County commissioners was spent discussing the request for a tax abatement for an energy storage facility. Loyd Drain from Solvent Energy told elected officials that the company, owned by a French family, had been negotiating with two landowners just northwest of Albany for a battery-operated energy storage facility, which would be connected to the state power grid.