County finances looking up

The county finances, on Aug. 1, had $167,643.59 in the county general fund, down from the $447,303.69 reported last year, while the county road fund had $166,228.33, down from last year’s reported $409,758.72. Horton has said the difference is that the county has started paying what it owes to taxing entities at the start of the year while in the past it paid in October.