Marshall Municipal Utilities received recognition during Tuesday’s city council meeting for achieving a standard set only by 11 of their peers in the state.

MMU was presented with a Certificate of Excellence in Reliability by the Missouri Public Utility Alliance. The honor from the American Public Power Association commends public utilities who maintain a reliability rating in the top 25 percent. Mayor Vince Lutterbie…

About 244 public utilities across the U.S. received the certificate in the past year, including Chillicothe, Columbia, Higginsville, Independence, and Macon.