Colorado woman takes FSA post

Kathy Wolfe has been named the new executive director of the Whitman County office of the United States Department of Agriculture’s Farm Service Agency.

Wolfe formerly served for eight years as the director of FSA offices in Las Animas and Logan Counties in her home state of Colorado.

A native of Holyoke, Colo., in the state’s northeast corner, Wolfe was selected from a field of candidates by the county FSA committee.

“I’m pretty new to these hills,” she said. “This is nothing like the flat lands of Colorado.”

Wolfe takes the seat vacated by Mike Mandere, who left in January to become the Chie...