Port tries again in suit

After missing its first court date in May, the Port of Whitman County will once again try to collect a debt owed by Columbia Phytotechnology, a former tenant of the port’s Pullman Industrial Park.

Published in the legal section of last week’s Gazette is a public summons for the company, and its managing director, Mark Savarese, to appear in Whitman County District Court.

The port publicly summoned the company in April for a May 20 court date, but no one representing the port appeared in court on that date.

Debbie Snell, port properties and development manager, said executive director Joe Poire...