Social Security recipients will receive a modest increase in their benefits next year after getting no cost-of-living adjustments in 2016.Benefits for more than 65 million Americans will increase 0.3 percent in 2017, the Social Security Administration announced last month.The cost-of-living adjustment will begin with benefits payable to Social Security beneficiaries...
A training center for agricultural workers is scheduled to open Dec. 1. in Kennewick.Lacey-based Wafla, formerly known as Washington Farm Labor Association, opened in 2006 and this will be its first training center, said George Zanatta of Kennewick, Wafla’s chief operating officer.“We are planning to utilize the Kennewick office for...
A Richland man who’s helped file more than 31,000 claims for VA assistance for veterans and their families is quick to shrug off any praise for his work.“I ain’t nothing but a secretary with hairy legs,” said Steve Prince, who served in the Marine Corps.The gruff but kind-hearted 64-year-old works...
A Richland coffee shop known for serving good coffee and supporting good causes will close its doors at the end of the month.Sharehouse Coffee ends its four-year run Oct. 30.The shop near the intersection of Keene Road and Queensgate Drive is an outreach ministry of Bethel Church. It’s known around...
When Railex Wine Services opened a Wallula warehouse big enough to fit 11 football fields inside it three years ago, the company didn’t expect Ste. Michelle Wine Estates to dominate the majority of its space.“It’s great to have an existing customer just prompt you to expand your business and open...
Tri-City shoppers can expect to see new restaurants and shops — including Ulta Beauty and MOD Pizza — opening next year in the Vintner Square development near Target off Queensgate Drive in Richland.It’s all part of the developers’ plan to provide a “high quality tenant mix,” said Jim Stephens, director...
A new commercial kitchen that serves as the hub for cooking hundreds of warm and nutritious meals a day for Benton and Franklin counties’ senior citizens opened last month in Richland.“This is the nicest kitchen I’ve ever been in,” gushed Chef Brian Kinner, food services manager for Senior Life Resources...
A pastry chef traded his apron and kitchen for protective gear to work at the Hanford nuclear reservation tank farms.Just how does a pastry chef become a nuclear chemical operator?For Brett Crusselle, it meant a tough two years of classes in the nuclear technology program at Columbia Basin College.Crusselle, 33,...
A chunk of prime Pasco real estate is back on the auction block after no buyers stepped forward to snatch it up last year.The state Board of Natural Resources authorized the sale of more than 230 acres of vacant state trust land in Pasco earlier this month.The five parcels range...
