County ready to enter New World

After a wait of six years and expenses of nearly two-thirds of a million dollars, Whitman County will turn on its 2005-vintage accounting software Monday.

“We’ve got the oars rowing and the sails blowing and we’re heading right toward that shore,” said Chris Nelson, director of the county’s Information Technology department.

The New World system replaces the existing software, which has been used by the county since 1984.

County employees have been training for the past several weeks in seminars. This week in particular has seen intensive workshops to teach employees how to use the new system....