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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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Getting Ready for School

Today was “meet the teachers” day at Wiley Elementary. We took our youngest over this afternoon and it looked like half of West Richland was there! Kids are in school starting tomorrow — please drive safely around all school areas. Well, drive safely everywhere, actually.

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