The Tri-Cities Area Journal of Business and Senior Times newspapers began the new year with new ownership. Paul ReadTri Comp Inc., which published the Journal and Senior Times, and Cowles Company, a fourth-generation Spokane business with holdings in the news, broadcasting, real estate, printing and other industries, reached an agreement...
Longtime Benton REA manager retiresBenton REA’s longtime manager has retired.Mike Bradshaw worked at Benton Rural Electric Association for 33 years and spent 41 years in the electric utility industry.Troy Berglund, vice president of member services, is serving as interim general manager.The Benton REA Board of Trustees is working with a...
Pasco breaks ground on animal shelterThe city of Pasco broke ground on its new Tri-Cities Animal Shelter on Nov. 30.The long-planned facility at 1312 S. 18th Ave. replaces an aging and dank facility that serves as headquarters for Tri-Cities Animal Control.Pasco is the host and manager of the animal facility,...
The Tri-Cities is uniquely blessed when it comes to energy, and that makes it uniquely well positioned to become the regional, if not national, capital of clean energy development.It will take the community working together to knit its many assets into a new engine to fuel our economy, from research...
The Pasco City Council faced a difficult decision in its final meeting of 2022.Should it fund the Downtown Pasco Development Authority, the troubled nonprofit responsible for managing the Pasco Specialty Kitchen, Cinco de Mayo, Fiery Foods Festival and downtown business revitalization efforts?In the end, it said “yes,” voting 5-2 to...
A Nov. 30 order from the Washington State Supreme Court is injecting confusion into the controversy surrounding a capital gains tax approved by the 2021 Legislature.The state’s high court said the Department of Revenue may begin collecting the tax in 2023 pending its own future ruling in a case that...
Our online readers love their restaurant and retail news.Four of the stories on our most-read story list from 2022 involve places to eat – new restaurants opening, owners retiring, planned expansions. Three involve retail news.Two of our top read stories of 2022 were from 2021: Amazon confirms plans to build...
ManagerBuck TaftTri-Cities AirportNumber of employees you oversee: Approximately 23Briefly describe the Tri-Cities Airport:PSC is a small hub commercial service airport that serves Southeast Washington and Northeast Oregon. The airport served 347,438 enplaned passengers in 2021 (Federal Aviation Administration data). This is down slightly from our peak in 2019 of 438,015.PSC...
The Tri-Cities said good-bye to leaders who helped create the community we know and love this past year and in late 2021, including Dennis Poland, the builder and one time Kennewick Man of the Year; Robert L. “Bob” Ferguson, the U.S. Department of Energy’s first deputy assistant secretary of nuclear...
Hanford board seeks membersThe Hanford Advisory Board is seeking applicants for several vacant seats.The board is a nonpartisan group of local representatives that provides recommendations to the three parties responsible for the Hanford site cleanup. They include the U.S. Department of Energy, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the state...
