Turbine company opens office on Colfax Main Street

COLFAX - An international company seeking to build wind turbines in Whitman County opened a local office at 119 S. Main St. on Thursday, Sept. 5.

"This is for us to be more engaged with the community," Harvest Hills Wind Project Director Shane Roche of Steelhead said. "This is a good spot for us to be able to work from when we're out here."

Steelhead Americas is a division of the international Vestas Corp. of Aarhus, Denmark, which has an American branch based in Portland, Ore.

Angellic Root, 23, born in Colfax and raised in Endicott, was outside the new office the first day it opened, reading...