LaCrosse grocery backers seek $42,000 from port

Backers of a grocery store and marketplace in LaCrosse asked the Port of Whitman County this week for $42,000.

The $42,000 from the port would be used to help fund a $192,800 remodel of the building for the planned store and marketplace.

“We’ve got a solid project here that has the chance to revitalize our entire community,” Ed Casey, president of LaCrosse Community Pride, told the Gazette Tuesday. “It marries right up with the port’s goals of job creation.”

LaCrosse has a population of 313 and the store could see business from the surrounding small towns of Hooper, Hay, Washtucna, Bend and Wi...