PorterKinney of Richland won the Business on a Roll award in the 10 or fewer employees category at the March 22 Tri-City Regional Chamber of Commerce annual meeting and awards luncheon. (Courtesy Rich Breshears of Breshears Photography)The Tri-City Regional Chamber of Commerce announced its Business on a Roll Award winners...
The Tri-Party Agreement agencies are offering an online conversation from 7 to 9 p.m. April 12 to discuss cleanup progress and challenges.Registration for Hanford Live 2017 is now open; click here to register.The Tri-Party Agreement agencies are the U.S. Department of Energy Richland Operations Office; U.S. DOE Office of River...
Kennewick store isn’t on the listThe JCPenney store in Kennewick isn’t among the 138 nationwide to be closed.The only JCPenney store in the state facing closure is at Pilchuck Landing in Snohomish, north of Seattle, according the company.The store closures, in addition to the shuttering of a distribution facility in...
Nonprofits collectively seek 2,000 volunteersLearn about volunteer opportunities in the Tri-Cities at a March 24 event in Kennewick.Emerging Tri-Cities, formerly the Young Professionals of Tri Cities, a professional development group, is organizing the event, which is from noon to 2 p.m. March 24 at the Tri-Cities Business & Visitors Center,...
U.S. Sen. Maria Cantwell’s Central Washington director will become TRIDEC’s third vice president of federal programs. David ReeploegDavid Reeploeg replaces Gary Petersen who retired earlier earlier this month from the Tri-City Development Council. The announcement was made at TRIDEC’s 54th annual meeting March 15 at the Red Lion Inn in...
Job fair planned for teachers at Tri-TechThose interested in teaching career and technical education, or CTE, courses can learn more at a job fair at Tri-Tech Skills Center on March 22.The job fair will be from 6 to 7 p.m. at Tri-Tech, 5929 W. Metaline Ave., in Kennewick. The CTE-focused program...
PNNL, WSU researcher wins national awardYong Wang, Washington State University professor and alumnus, has won the American Chemical Society’s annual Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Division fellow award.Wang, best known for his research in catalysis and reaction engineering for energy and renewable fuels and chemicals, holds a joint appointment with the U.S....
The 2016 Kennewick Man and Woman of the Year share a passion for bettering the community they live in and both have devoted countless hours to improve it.Dave Retter, 62, owner of Retter & Company Sotheby’s International Realty, was named Kennewick Man of the Year on Feb. 28. Joyce Kerr,...
There is a new presence at the Hanford site. Leidos merged with Lockheed Martin’s Information Systems & Global Solutions business unit, making it the new lead parent company for Mission Support Alliance, the infrastructure and site-services provider at Hanford since 2009. Leidos is a global science and technology solutions leader headquartered in...
Small business owners who have benefited from the Washington Small Business Development Center are invited to share their success on social media on March 22.[blockquote quote="During the past 10 years, the Washington SBDC has helped more than 20,400 business owners statewide start more than 1,000 new businesses, save 4,655 jobs,...
