Port clears Mader land purchase

Commissioners of the Port of Whitman County at their July 15 meeting approved payment of $16,763 to the Mader family to wrap up a real estate deal in Pullman.

The port in 2007 purchased nearly 53 acres of land from the Maders for a new industrial park at the southwest corner of the intersection of Highway 27 and the Pullman-Albion Road.

The refund comes after an ownership mixup on more than 47,000-square-feet of land at the site.

The state Department of Transportation acquired a right-of-way easement in the 1950s when it rebuilt Highway 27.

The port used $333,000 from its $1 million Innovation...