County signs deal to unclog court internet

Whitman County officials Monday approved a new contract for internet service to the county’s courthouse complex.

Information Technology Director Chris Nelson presented commissioners with a three-year contract that would increase the county’s internet capacity more than 13-fold.

Large projects needing to be done by both her department and the auditor’s department require the county to have more bandwidth.

“Our internet is used by everybody on a daily basis, so it’s important that we have something that will support being used by our 200-some computers at once,” she said. “Things have just start...