Archive for the 'Richland News' Category

Hope Solo: Richland’s Gold Medal Winner

Friday, August 22nd, 2008

HUGE congratulations to former Richland Bomber, and current Gold Medal Winning Goalie Hope Solo, who led Team USA Women’s Soccer to a 1-0 win over Brazil this week at the Summer Olympics in China. What an incredible accomplishment for anyone, but it’s even more amazing when you consider that this was the exact scenario — [...]

“A theme park next to the Chernobyl nuclear power plant”

Thursday, August 14th, 2008

That’s how the Los Angeles Times explains the growing tourism coming to Richland because of Hanford and the Hanford Reach National Monument. I know many Richlanders won’t like the comparison, but I’m a sucker for clever analogies, even if they are a bit suspect.
On the tourism/visitor front, the article talks about those uber-popular DOE tours [...]

Final Hanford Reach Management Plan Complete

Tuesday, August 12th, 2008

The US Fish & Wildlife Service has finished its final CCP (Comprehensive Conservation Plan) for the Hanford Reach area and posted it (in several parts, or as one large PDF) on the Service’s web site. Here are some highlights of the plan:

26,000 acres of land would be opened to the public, while about 2,000 would [...]

Richland Parks on the Chopping Block

Tuesday, August 12th, 2008

There’s been a lot of coverage in the local paper and TV news about the possibility of at least three Richland city parks closing down soon: Westwood, Barth and Greater Years parks. The city says the parks aren’t used very much and cost about $10,000 to maintain. Richland residents say the parks are used more [...]

Richland Boosts Benton County’s Average Salary

Thursday, August 7th, 2008

Interesting article in the Herald today about salaries in Benton County. According to the article, workers in Benton County have the third highest average weekly wage in Washington in 2007.
The county’s average weekly salary was $842, up 3.9 percent over 2006. By comparison, Franklin County workers earned an average of $593 in 2007, a [...]

George Prout Pool Closing Soon for the Summer

Tuesday, August 5th, 2008

We’ve talked about heading over to George Prout Pool for some swimming this summer, but as yet the McGee family has yet to follow through on that. And we’re running out of time to do it now: The poll will close for the summer on August 24. That’s less than three weeks away - yikes!
We [...]