Port eyes role in Central Ferry Park

With the future of Central Ferry Park uncertain, Port of Whitman Commissioners last Thursday discussed efforts to save it.

The park, owned by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, now lacks an operator because Northwest Land Management opted out of its lease at the end of the recreation season.

“I just wonder if we could start a conversation about redeveloping the park,” Port Commissioner Don Cox said at last week’s regular port meeting.

Cox suggested a three-headed management team of the port running the park with help from the corps and the state parks department.

The state gave up its managemen...