Paving project to close Sand Road

Whitman County commissioners approved the closure of four miles of Sand Road from Brown Road east of Pullman to the Idaho State line for a two-day period in June for paving. The closure will be sometime between June 12-20, at the discretion of the county road department.

The current Sand Road Project refers to putting a paved surface on four miles of road which crews worked on last year to lessen angles on a stretch of S-curves and put in guardrail.

For this year, the county road department first intended to put hot-mix asphalt on the gravel but deemed it too expensive. They now plan to substi...