Three short roads to go on chopping block

Three short Whitman County roads will be on commissioners’ chopping block in the next three weeks.

The county’s public works department has been working for the past two years to rid the department of small roads that serve only one property owner.

Public Works Director Mark Storey said doing so gets the properties back on the tax roll and reduces the county’s costs for maintenance like plowing and grading.

On the block at a hearing later this month will be Emerson Road by Uniontown, T.W. Walters Road in Colfax and a piece of land by the Winona West Road at Winona.

Emerson Road is a quarter mi...