County gets approval to raze Winona building

An abandoned building in Winona is set to be torn down after the superior court approved an abatement order April 21.

The process began a few years back when complaints started to come in about the red-brick Endicott Road building, which stands next to a residential property.

“If it fails completely, it could knock down the adjacent building,” said Mark Storey, Whitman County public works director.

The county will now prepare a quote to go to its small-project vendor list, for the work which Storey estimated at $30,000, to take one to two days.

The structure in question – which has a main floo...