Cari was turned around this morning when she was dropping off our son, Sean, at Enterprise Middle School. A couple teachers were in front of the school alerting parents that the school had no power or water. Other homes in the area of the school were also without power, we’re told, but we don’t know [...]
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We’re Too Big for Our Trash Pickup
If you live in the affected area, you should already know this … but just in case: Seems West Richland has outgrown its garbage collection services. Yep. Due to the growth of the city, Ed’s Disposal is changing its collection date for about 125 homes east of Bombing Range Road — across from the Bird [...]
Local Politics & Knocking on Doors
Benton County has posted the first set of election results. It looks like we’re going to have a new mayor (Donna Noski), and it looks like one incumbent council person (Mark Hanneman) is going to lose his seat. Granted, these are early results and anything can change, but bear with me on this point I [...]
KEPR-TV reports on West Richland growth
KEPR-TV ran an interesting news report last night on West Richland’s growth — and how sales tax revenues are still lagging behind other sources. I think “poised for growth” is probably the best phrase to use. We’ve seen a lot of growth in recent years, including the new Bird Hill retail development, but city officials [...]
West Richland City Council candidates in the TC Herald
Politics is a bit outside of the zone of stuff we like to write about here on the West Richland Real Estate blog, but I don’t think we need to avoid it altogether, right? You’ve probably already received your ballots in the mail, and they need to be postmarked by August 18. So time’s running [...]
The Scoop on Bird Hill Repaving
As I wrote in our previous post, a couple streets on Bird Hill are due for some repaving soon, and now we’ve received the full plan of attack from the city. Public Works Director Roscoe Slade tells us that Blue Heron Blvd. will be paved on Tuesday, July 28, and Chukar Drive will be paved [...]
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Yakima River Flooding Expected This Weekend
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Kadlec Clinic Now Open in West Richland
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Hogs and Dogs Thrills West Richland
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From Cari’s Real Estate Blog
- Building Our New Home, Part 11 April 30, 2012My husband, Matt, and I are building our new home. This is the eleventh in a series of who-knows-how-many. I’m writing from the perspective of a buyer, and an agent, since I am both in this case. Actually, I think this is the last post on this subject! Eleven posts and six months later – [...]Building Our New Home, Part 11 is an article from Tri-Cities real […]
- Building Our New Home, Part 10 March 22, 2012My husband, Matt, and I are building our new home. This is the tenth in a series of who-knows-how-many. I’m writing from the perspective of a buyer, and an agent, since I am both in this case. The home inspection occurred on a Saturday morning, beginning at 9am. Home inspections generally last around 2 hours, [...]Building Our New Home, Part 10 is an articl […]
- New: Get Blog Posts by Email February 20, 2012I’ve added a new feature on this blog that makes it easier for readers to keep up with any and all new articles: You can now get my blog posts by email! It’s really simple. Just look for the email signup form that’s included below each article I publish. Here’s what it looks like (and [...]New: Get Blog Posts by Email is an article from Tri-Cities real estat […]
