Archive | February, 2009
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Kadlec Clinic Now Open in West Richland

If you’ve driven along Keene Rd. lately, you’ve probably noticed a lot of cars — and no construction equipment — in the parking lot of the Kadlec Medical Clinic. That’s because it’s now open and accepting patients! Kadlec’s PR guy, Jim Hall, tells WRREB (that’s us) that a community grand opening event is planned for [...]

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Power Outage today in West Richland

Don’t know yet what all areas of West Richland were affected by this, but our power went out at the house at about 8:55 am today. We live up on Bird Hill and I’m pretty sure the whole neighborhood was affected. Our power was restored at about 10:10 am. A friend of Cari who lives [...]

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West Richland golf course update

The Herald ran an update today on how things are going at the West Richland golf course. The newsworthy parts are that owner Michelle Marcum is really close to moving out of the existing clubhouse trailer and into a temporary building, and she wants to have a new permanent clubhouse built within six months. And [...]

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Scenes from the Science Fair

Tonight was the annual Science Fair at William Wiley Elementary, and man was it packed! Wall-to-wall people, and with science projects taking up a lot of space in the hallways, moving around was pretty tough. Our son had a project in the fair, as did all of friends, so while we walked around checking out [...]

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Waterline Project to cause Keene Rd. delays

The City of West Richland will soon begin installing a new waterline in the Keene & Kennedy roads area, and some traffic delays are to be expected. The new waterline will run from the Duportail/Keene intrersection in Richland to Kennedy and East Mountain Roads in West Richland. Kinda like this: (It obviously won’t cut across [...]

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FEMA opening West Richland flood claims center

FEMA — the Federal Emergency Management Agency — will open a temporary flood claims center in West Richland later this week to help people with problems related to last month’s Yakima River floods. If you already submitted information to local officials, you still need to make a formal request for assistance with FEMA. You can [...]

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