County signs on with Martin Hall

Just as board chairman Scott Hutsell predicted, Martin Hall’s numbers increased to 24 for November, up from 22 in October.

“I hope that is a trend that continues,” said Hutsell, who is also a Lincoln County Commissioner.

“We are serving a few more tribal youth in the last couple of months which is a good thing,” he said in an email to the Gazette late last week.

Although Whitman County is well below its 912 budgeted number of juvenile offenders at 240 so far this year, other counties and Native American tribes who utilize the facility are seeing increased numbers.

“We’re still trying to promot...