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Keene Road Closure Starts March 1st

Here’s an update to our post from a couple weeks ago about an upcoming closure on Keene Road. The city’s original plan was to do the closure in late February, but Public Works Director Roscoe Slade says it’ll start on March 1st: Keene Road will be closed from the Bombing Range Road round-a-bout to West [...]

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West Richland considering LED and Induction Street Lights

Sometime later this year, the city of West Richland may decide on a new technology to power the city’s street lights. Up for discussion is a switch to either LED or induction-based street lights. Public Works Director Roscoe Slade tells us via email that street light “technology is rapidly improving and the cost continues to [...]

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Benton REA closing drive-thru pay window

The Benton REA building in West Richland will have a new interior look soon, and part of that will involve closing the drive-up payment window. The window is closed for good right now, and will not be open during business hours tomorrow. The local office is expanding so that engineering and operations employees will all [...]

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Keene Rd. Closed This Month

Keene Road will be closed for a couple weeks later this month while the city does some road repairs. The closure will affect the portion of Keene Rd. between Bombing Range Rd. (the roundabout) and South Highlands Drive. This’ll be an inconvenience for some folks who use that route to access Wiley Elementary for drop-off [...]

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West Richland survey coming soon

It’s not posted on the city’s web site yet, but the February edition of the “City Scene” newsletter — that’s the thing you get in your utility bill — includes a message from new mayor Donna Noski. The most interesting part to me is the news that West Richland will soon be sending out its [...]

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Congrats to Smitty’s Paradise

It’s not every day that a West Richland business wins a national award, so we’d like to congratulate Smitty’s Paradise on winning the Best Interior Design award in a nationwide contest sponsored by Convenience Store News. When the store opened last summer, I wrote on this blog, “I went in over the weekend with my [...]

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