New Chamber digs

The Chamber of Commerce has a new home.

Valoree Gregory, Colfax’s unified executive director, has moved her office from Main Street to the Perkins House.

The move will allow the Perkins House to maintain regular hours and allow the Chamber to host meetings at the house as well.

Gregory said it was important for the Chamber and the Whitman County Historical Society to establish her office in a way that did not take away from the house.

She is set up under the stairway in the front entry, using the desk that was already there.

When James Perkins built the house, he built it in such a way to acco...