Archive for June, 2009

PNNL Joins Flickr

Monday, June 22nd, 2009

This is kinda cool. PNNL has created an account and begun posting photos on Flickr, the super-popular photo sharing and photo community web site.

Sadly, all the photos are listed as “all rights reserved” — since this is government stuff, it would’ve been nice for them to share these images under a Creative Commons license. [...]

Hanford High School – One of the Best HS in USA

Thursday, June 11th, 2009

This is cool. For the second straight year, Newsweek magazine has named Hanford High School one of the top 1,500 high schools in the U.S. The Falcons are ranked #1435 this year — congrats!
Here’s how Newsweek describes the ranking system:
Public schools are ranked according to a ratio devised by Jay Mathews: the number of Advanced [...]

Richland Business News Roundup

Saturday, June 6th, 2009

Here’s another look at what’s going on in the Richland business community.

Edward Jones Investments has a new branch at 2735 Queensgate Drive. Troy Binfet is the financial advisor there.
New Horizon School of Massage has relocated to 290 Torbett St.
Sakura, a restaurant offering both Chinese and Japanese food, is now open on Keene Rd. It’s in [...]