Tekoa to chip-seal streets

The city of Tekoa will chip-seal five roads this summer in a project estimated to cost $75,000. The roads, which are now gravel, will effectively be paved once work is complete.

Howard, Sophy, Elizabeth, Truax and Lebo streets are residential roads as short as three blocks long.

“We’ve been wanting to do this,” said Tekoa Mayor John Jaeger.

The funding for the project will come out of the city’s streets fund and general fund.

Tekoa’s Public Works Department will perform the preparation work to the gravel while a crew from Whitman County Public Works will complete it, spreading a layer of aspha...