By Melanie HairTime critical.Highly technical.Labor intensive.These three phrases were repeated throughout my daylong stint as a firefighter trainee on March 23 at the Volpentest HAMMER federal training facility at the Hanford site in Richland. Melanie HairCalled Fire Ops 101, the multi-agency event is designed to show everyday Joes and Janes...
Tour De Coop event on April 21 offers scoop on a dozen coopsAnnette Pederson scooped up the fluffy yellow chicks that had just arrived at Kennewick’s Basin Feed and Supply to start her first foray into raising chickens.“I’m looking forward to fresh eggs, recycling all my food scraps, bug control...
Hilton Home2 Suites focuses on eco-friendly options throughout facilityRichland’s new Hilton Home2 Suites appeals to travelers’ increasing environmental consciousness and desire for more sustainable amenities.The Queensgate area hotel’s sales manager, Berenice Trevino, said she’s interacted with guests who specifically seek out Home2 Suites for this reason and said hotel reviews...
The successful launch of Chaplaincy Health Care’s new thrift store in Kennewick last year prompted the opening of a second store in Richland.The nonprofit, which provides hospice, palliative and grief care and behavioral health services, opened a second thrift store — also called Repeat Boutique — in the Richland Uptown...
By Gail EverettAll this talk about sustainability only widens the gap between those who get it and those who are too overwhelmed to start.In general, being sustainable means doing your best to avoid the depletion of our natural resources and reducing your adverse impact by being careful stewards of the...
MH Construction moving from Clearwater Avenue to Badger CanyonTrying to get to MH Construction’s front office door in Kennewick can be tricky.While the building at 4211 West Clearwater Ave. is clearly visible from that main roadway, visitors might need a map to get there.They’ll have to drive a half a...
Niche bookstore to feature collectibles, sci-fi, mysteries, non-fictionMid-Columbia book collectors will have new shelves to comb this summer.Longtime book collector and retiring Bechtel radiological engineering health supervisor, Steven Woolfolk, is planning the construction of a 6,000-square-foot bookstore at 2240 Robertson Drive in Richland near Horn Rapids.The new store’s name: Xenophile...
A Spokane-based credit union soon will open new branches in Kennewick, Pasco and Richland.STCU recently finalized the purchase of a 1.5-acre site for a Kennewick branch at 4842 W. Hildebrand Blvd., across the highway from The Rock Wood Fired Pizza.Plans call for a 4,500-square-foot branch office with STCU Home Loans...
Work is expected to begin in May on the biggest rock fence in Washington state’s history—and it’s not along the slopes of Snoqualmie Pass but along Highway 730 south of the Wallula junction.“That whole stretch from the Oregon border to the Wallula junction, there’s boulders in the ditch and there...
Coalition of Washington business group supports $10 million projectPlanning is underway to build a new BNSF Railway bridge in Idaho that’s expected to improve train traffic in Pasco.BNSF Railway and Keep Washington Competitive representatives met recently in Pasco about the project. The permitting process is moving forward on the $100...
