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Articles by Gale Metcalf

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The Record Wrangler once dominated Tri-City airwaves

January 6, 2026
Gale Metcalf

Tri-City disc jockey Loyd Aman took the radio scene by storm in the mid-1950s as the Record Wrangler, perhaps the most popular radio personality ever in the Tri-Cities.


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Families learn to make do during war rationing

December 4, 2025
Gale Metcalf

Materials needed to maintain the Allied war effort and America’s role in it required a rationing system to manage the fair distribution of essential goods and to prevent hoarding.


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Meet the trailblazer behind the Tri-Cities’ first bus system

November 3, 2025
Gale Metcalf

The late Blanche Pratt was the first transit bus driver in the Tri-Cities, slipping behind the wheel of the Tri-Cities’ first passenger bus in May 1942 during World War II.


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Kennewick’s legendary drum echoes through time

September 29, 2025
Gale Metcalf

The thunder of booming drums will reverberate through the air during the Oct. 4 annual Cavalcade of Drums in Kennewick. But there will be none quite like the Big Drum which has marched to its own drumbeat dating back six decades and more at Kennewick High School.


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How Pasco beat the odds – and two cities – to land a college

September 2, 2025
Gale Metcalf

A one-time military post may have tipped the scales favoring Pasco for placing Washington state’s newest junior college 70 years ago.


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From Braves to Dust Devils, the Tri-Cities’ 75 years of baseball history

August 7, 2025
Gale Metcalf

As the Tri-Cities marks the diamond jubilee of professional baseball’s arrival, the memories of that inaugural season – and many that followed – continue to resonate with longtime fans across the region.


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These golden girls ruled the dance floor at O’Henry’s Go-Go

July 1, 2025
Gale Metcalf

This popular downtown Kennewick restaurant once featured go-go dancers over 60 years old.


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Davy Crockett craze sweeps Tri-Cities

June 2, 2025
Gale Metcalf

It didn’t take the Tri-Cities long to buy into the Davy Crockett craze with the amount of attention little boys threw at it.


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Community unites to build fence after 10th child drowning

May 1, 2025
Gale Metcalf

The so-called Ditch of Death galvanized an entire community to bring a major safety feature to the canal within a week of a little boy’s drowning. On its 5-mile flow through what then comprised the small town of Kennewick, it had claimed the lives of 10 children.


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Remembering a Pasco officer killed in line of duty 70 years ago

March 31, 2025
Gale Metcalf

He was the first and only Pasco police officer to be killed in the line of duty.


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