Palouse gets south side sidewalk grant

The City of Palouse has been awarded $200,000 to install a sidewalk on Palouse Cove Road to the edge of downtown. The grant, from the Washington State Transportation Improvement Board’s new “Complete Streets” program, comes as part of an original plan for the sidewalk to connect to Lions Club Park along the Highway 27 entry into Palouse.

From there it would lead to a footbridge the city intends to build across the North Fork of the Palouse River to Hayton-Greene Park.

Funding for the footbridge was part of the city’s initial application for the program last November.

Since then, they were told...