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Kristina Lord

Kristina Lord has more than 20 years of journalism experience and has been editor of the Tri-Cities Area Journal of Business and Senior Times since July 2016. She spent more than 17 years at the Tri-City Herald and also worked at weekly newspapers in Prosser, Grandview and Yelm. She was a longtime member of the Society of Professional Journalists’ William O. Douglas chapter and is a board member of Warrior Sisterhood, a Tri-Cities Cancer Center support group. She and her husband have two daughters and they live in West Richland.

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Eye, ear specialists team up to offer seniors one-stop care

February 11, 2022

Kristina Lord

A Kennewick audiologist and a Pasco optometrist have teamed up to launch a new business model to make it easier for seniors to receive care.The Columbia Basin Hearing Center and Mid-Columbia Eyecare Center will host the other doctor once a week, starting in mid-February. Nicholas GublerOptometrist Nicholas Gubler will do...

Tree Top moves puree line, jobs to Prosser, begins $6M expansion

February 11, 2022

Kristina Lord

A Prosser food manufacturer has begun a major expansion project in advance of moving its puree operations from Oregon to the Lower Yakima Valley.Tree Top Inc. will close its Medford, Oregon, plant and move the production line to Prosser in 2023, bringing with it 40 new jobs. The Prosser plant,...

Prosser sees spike in residential construction

February 11, 2022

Kristina Lord

Rolls of blueprints for new buildings – including a $78 million hospital complex – and plans for new developments are piled on chairs and tables in the Prosser Building Department’s temporary office.Steve Zetz, Prosser’s community development director, said there’s a lot of work ahead for his team, pointing to the...

West Richland plans to turn traffic circle into traffic signals

December 15, 2021

Kristina Lord

Plans are underway to replace a traffic circle with traffic lights at a key intersection connecting Richland to West Richland.The city of West Richland wants to remove the circle where Bombing Range and Keene roads intersect to reduce backups and delays.Designed in 2001, the traffic circle was intended to last...

Builders pivot from commercial to multifamily projects

November 12, 2021

Kristina Lord

A group of Tri-City builders is turning its focus away from commercial development to focus on multifamily projects.It’s a strategy that appears to be a smart business move for Urban Range LLC.Four partners make up the LLC which brings together under one umbrella a group of experienced builders with businesses...

West Richland: More bedrooms to bring more commercial development

October 14, 2021

Kristina Lord

West Richland often is called the Tri-Cities’ bedroom community.Plenty more bedrooms were built in the past year and more are coming with the buildout of the Heights at Red Mountain Ranch.The west end of the city saw a boom of new home construction in 2021.In 2020, the city recorded a...

Cemetery Tim keeps memories alive in stone at the graveyard

October 14, 2021

Kristina Lord

The proprietor of Headstones by Cemetery Tim makes death look cool.That’s what some of his clients have told him over the years.But Tim Morris isn’t trying to look cool. He’s going for approachable.His headstone company is based in Yakima but he recently opened a showroom in downtown Pasco.His front door...

Franklin County Historical Museum expansion coming – maybe by 2022?

October 13, 2021

Kristina Lord

Pieces of the Franklin County Historical Museum’s collection are scattered throughout the county.Some are stored in the basement of the Pasco police station.Some are tucked into the Kahlotus Grange Hall.The Port of Pasco is storing some items for the museum. Past museum board members opened up their barn space. The...

Kennewick warrior wanted more late-stage research

August 12, 2021

Kristina Lord

When you join a cancer support group, you inevitably have to say goodbye to friends. Over the years, this has been the hardest part of serving on the board of Warrior Sisterhood, a program offered through Kadlec Tri-Cities Cancer Center.I recently added another name to my ever-growing list of those cancer took too soon: Libby Boothe, 44, of Kennewick. She died in hospice care...

New nonprofit wants to employ more workers on the spectrum

August 11, 2021

Kristina Lord

The 2021 pandemic prompted plenty of Tri-City businesses to reassess and regroup.For Jim and Karen Pridemore, the pause allowed them to double down on the mission close to their heart: to help young adults on the autism spectrum.Their son Tyler is on the spectrum.“It allowed us to say, ‘What now?’...

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