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Coyote Park Improvement

I’ve heard that this is how it works – kids who pursue their Eagle Scout designation have to take on a project. A young man named Jeff Weyand is constructing a covered pavilion and two horseshoe pits just down the street at Coyote Park. He’s a freshman at Hanford High and he was able to [...]

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Survey Says: Retiring, Working, and Raising Kids in West Richland

A few weeks ago I wrote about West Richland’s citywide survey that was conducted earlier this year — specifically about the survey result that shows we really love West Richland as a place to live. Here are a few more interesting survey results; these are about how we rate West Richland as a place for [...]

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Black Heron Spirits Planning Grand Opening

Black Heron Spirits, the new liquor distillery that’s located at Keene Rd. and Van Giesen Ave. is planning a grand opening and ribbon cutting on October 1st. KNDU-TV ran a story on the new business last night. Here’s the video if you missed it: Looks like a nice facility!

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Charter Cable Update: Late October/November in West Richland

Charter Cable Update: Late October/November in West Richland

Charter Cable had a booth at Saturday’s Harvest Festival, and since I’m the most frustrated Frontier Telephone/DSL customer alive, I had to talk to the Charter folks about when they’d be taking new customers here in West Richland. The answer: late October or November. The Charter crew said they’re still in the process of upgrading [...]

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Harvest Festival 2010 Thoughts & Photos

We may have arrived too early — 11:15 am. Or maybe it’s because I wasn’t feeling too great this weekend. Anyway, something just didn’t seem right about Saturday’s annual Harvest Festival in West Richland. If I had to put it in a single sentence: What’s the purpose? Longer version: Why are we all showing up [...]

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Enterprise Sign Finally Up

I think it’s been a couple months since we first posted about the new readerboard that was planned for Enterprise Middle School. They finished the concrete base and then … nothing. And more nothing. Until I drove by today and saw that the sign is finally up. It’s a little smaller than I expected, and [...]

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