Boyer lot slated for sealing

Whitman County has agreed to do chip sealing and crack sealing on the Boyer Park parking lot while they are chip sealing Lower Granite Road over this coming summer.

It has been 20 years since the parking lot has been sealed. The county tends to do chip sealing on the roads every six to eight years.

The county will charge the Port of Whitman for materials and employees' time to do the sealing, but not for mobilization because the county machinery will already be in the neighborhood.

"This probably is the time to do it," said Joe Poiré, the ports Executive Director, "The county will do a really...