With the promise of saving valuable and endangered public records, state officials opened a new $14.3 million archives building just down the street from Woodward Field on Eastern Washington University's campus in Cheney on Monday. They boasted about their 17,000-square-foot brick and glass building where state workers will salvage valuable electronic government records. At the same time, they introduced the state's archives Web site, a new service that will help people easily access state and local legal records, such as marriage licenses, birth certificates and military records.
