Election night returns: Fagan headed for win; races in Rosalia, Pullman, Palouse close

Close races in Rosalia, Palouse and Pullman generated the only Election Night drama after the first count of ballots Tuesday.

Tuesday night’s count of 7,114 ballots represented 37 percent turnout from the county’s 19,376 registered voters. The next count will be today, Thursday, at 4 p.m.

Whitman County’s Rural Library District will have more tax money for operations next year because voters voted 65 percent in favor of boosting the library’s levy back up to 50 cents per $1,000 of assessed property value in 2010.

The levy rate had dropped under Initiative 747 which restricts tax districts to a...