The city’s Parks & Rec department is looking for public feedback to help set priorities and let city staff know how well they’re doing their jobs. It’s a quick survey – just 7/8 questions – and you can access the survey from the city’s web site.

The cities of Richland and Kennewick have created a new survey for residents to give some input on the future of the western side of Colunbia Park. It’s only five questions, so it’ll take just a moment out of your day. You can take the survey here. It’s open until August 17th.

If the Richland Library isn’t the best of the city libraries … I’d be really shocked. Especially after finally being able to get inside the newly renovated Richland Library during its ribbon-cutting ceremony on Friday. The place was packed — I think the Herald said/estimated 400 people were there. I showed up with the kids [...]

Thx to @tturner33 on Twitter comes news that Money magazine has included Richland on its new list of the Best Places to Live 2009. In fact, Richland is ranked #51. Just north of Richland is the Hanford Site, where the plutonium used in the atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki was made. That history has remained [...]

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. [...]

UPDATE: This is an old post from 2009. To see current info about the George Prout pool schedule, click to this post: George Prout Pool: 2010 Schedule/Hours —————– If the warm weather these past couple weeks has you thinking about a swim, the George Prout Pool will be ready for you starting on June 11. [...]