Drivers in the Spokane Valley will have to use a detour on Bigelow Gulch starting Wednesday. Spokane County Engineering and Roads will close down Bigleow Gulch between Argonne and Forker for two days for pavement repair.

City officials said the project will cost $425,000 and will include work on the asphalt, ditches and shoulders of the road. The project will start Wednesday and finish Friday.

Bigelow Gulch will be open to traffic during the evening, but daytime traffic will be detoured to Morgan Road and Pleasant Prarie Road.

For almost twenty years, the Crown Victoria has been the vehicle of choice among law enforcement agencies across the United States. Driver’s eyes are trained to recognize the low-riding and gliding shark on the highways with their startling blue-red flashing lights. Now it’s time to recognize a new vehicle for Washington State Patrol troopers.

Ford halted their production on the vehicle last fall opting to switch over to a new model. WSP has been preparing for the change since the last of the Police Interceptors came off the assembly line in Chicago. They decided they would be switching to the Chevrolet Caprice. While many troopers will be replacing their patrol vehicles with the Caprice, one trooper in Lincoln County requested the last Crown Victoria issued to the agency.

Tpr. Paul Wanzenried made the trek to Tumwater in June to pick up his new ride. He was met by a ceremony as WSP said farewell to one of the last of its kind that is now the mobile office for the Eastern Washington trooper.