St. John Hardware approved for stateline site

The Whitman County board of adjustment approved a conditional use permit Aug. 8 to allow St. John Hardware and Implement to open a location on the former Hawkins property just west of the Washington-Idaho border.

No one spoke against the project at the public hearing.

The approval is the latest step in St. John Hardware’s plan to relocate from their site in north Moscow, which will become the location for a new building to house EMSI, a Moscow-based software company.

St. John Hardware plans to move to 10 acres of the former Hawkins property which has been purchased by Sand Road Bucklers, LLC....