Work now underway on Palouse skate park

Dirt has been turned on the Palouse skate park project.

After almost two years of wrangling for a site for the volunteer-driven and privately-funded project, Aaron Flansburg’s Palouse skate park committee put a sign up and broke ground July 22.

The work so far has been preliminary at the Whitman Street site donated for the park by owner Tony Kettle.

Flansburg got official permission from the city earlier in the month when the Palouse building inspector signed off on the critical areas checklist – which assures that any downtown project won’t affect the Palouse River.

In order to formally accep...