ATVP to maintain county space

After 25 years together, Whitman County and Alternatives to Violence on the Palouse are going to make official an informal agreement that lets ATVP maintain its office space.

Commissioners Monday discussed the situation and the revelation that, although ATVP has had a physical presence in the courthouse building for more than two decades, it has never been official with any documentation. And while there are other requests for that space, commissioners felt the services ATVP provides warranted keeping it in the space.

“They’re a bridge in what would otherwise be a divide,” said Dan LeBeau, the...