Sand Road open

Sand Road is open again to the public after being closed for five weeks.

A four-mile road closure near Pullman was part of a $1.8 million project to improve safety.

The guardrail is now complete, leaving another week or two of crushing road material before the project is done. The crusher, located beside the roadway, is awaiting parts for repair.

On a stretch of S-curves two miles south of Highway 270, contractor M.A DeAtley Constuction of Clarkston has blasted through a basalt rock bluff in order to extend curves.

The work widened the 24-26-foot road to 28-30 feet.