Board approves $1.6 million in .09 projects

Whitman County commissioners Monday approved $1 million from the .09 economic development fund to go to the fiber-to-the-home and rural fiber extensions to transmitter sites project for the Port of Whitman.

Another $600,000 was approved for the Moscow-Pullman Airport runway realignment.

The $1 million will go to design and construction of a fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) network in five rural towns in Whitman County. The project will also bolster an existing transmitter network with mid-mile fiber extensions to three transmitter sites.

The towns are Rosalia, Oakesdale, Palouse, Tekoa and Garfield.

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