County backs library’s history project

Whitman County commissioners Monday granted the rural library district $5,800 to further its project to post historical documents and pictures from the area on the internet.

Library Director Kristie Kirkpatrick said the library did not this year receive the federal grant that had been funding its Rural Heritage Project for the past several years.

“We’ve got notebook after notebook of people that want to participate,” said Kirkpatrick. “Our program has been so poular, we just hated to see it stop.”

The grant has paid to send a library staffer from town to town with a scanner to archive historic...