LaX store receives funds despite legal questions

LaCrosse was awarded $40,000 in economic aid from Whitman County to bring groceries back to town at Tuesday night’s meeting of the Blue Ribbon Advisory Task Committee.

Whitman County Rural Library District applied for the $40,000 grant from the county’s .09 economic development funding. The library wants to renovate space in the former LaCrosse Market building to relocate the town’s library from city hall.

Attached to the LaCrosse library project is a complete renovation of the market building to create space for a grocery, a chiropractor’s office, a coffee shop, a high school business incubat...