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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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West Richland Survey: We Love It Here

West Richlanders don’t just like living in West Richland; we love it. According to the city survey conducted earlier this year, a whopping 91% of West Richlanders rate their neighborhood as a “good” or “excellent” as a place to live. No matter how you slice it, that’s a pretty amazing stat. A total of 805 [...]

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Thanks, West Richland: New Tennis Net Is In

On June 22nd, I sent an email to Roscoe Slade, the city’s Public Works Director, with a photo of a droopy tennis net at South Highlands Park and a question: Who do I ask about getting the net fixed/raised? Literally five minutes later, he replied that he would follow-up on getting it fixed. On July [...]

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South Highlands Park Needs a New Tennis Net

We’re now a tennis-playing family. Well, a very light tennis-playing family … but we’re one nonetheless. Our daughter recently took some very basic lessons at Columbia Basin Racquet Club and she wants to keep playing, so we went out and bought a couple rackets and some tennis balls so anyone can join her on the [...]

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4th of July in West Richland

There’s really no need to drive down to the river or over to Pasco to see a big fireworks display when your neighbors in West Richland are setting off stuff like this from their driveways: Seriously, I swear some folks up here on Bird Hill are running professional fireworks performances tonight. Is this legal? I [...]

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