Just in time: Fair gets bleachers

A week before the Great Northern Fair is slated to begin, county workers are assembling a new set of bleachers at the Hill County Fairgrounds.

The bleachers will be completed just in time to meet the seating demands of several popular events at the fair. Their construction comes as a relief to fair planners, who were faced with a daunting task earlier this year after the county opted to remove the former grandstand and two sections of bleachers that were falling apart.

A stroke of luck allowed the Hill County Fair Board to purchase replacement bleachers for about $40,000 - far less than initia...