County enters brave New World

Six years after purchasing a $331,600 accounting software from Michigan-based New World Systems, Whitman County put it into action Monday morning.

“This has gone incredibly smooth compared to some of my past conversions,” said Chris Nelson, director of the county’s information technology department.

County IT staffers Esther Wilson, left, and Chris Nelson work Monday at “New World Central,” a post inside the county commissioners’ conference room.

Efforts to bring the software into use were stepped up last spring, when county commissioners, dissatisfied with the lack of progress in bringing New...