Roads vacation placed on hold

Whitman County commissioners held off on deciding whether to vacate sections of two dirt roads northeast near St. John after a public hearing Monday.

Jim Davis Road and Gene Nelson Road are local access, mostly seasonal roads. A total of five miles would be vacated from both.

The roads run north from Sunset Road to the Thorn Creek Road. The Davis Road intersects at Sunset, and the Nelson Road intersects about two miles west of the Davis Road.

“We don't have any reason not to vacate these unless public testimony says otherwise,” Public Works Director Mark Storey told the commissioners at the me...