It was as wild and woolly a town that could have ever been found on the frontier. Springing up at the confluence of the Snake and Columbia rivers, Ainsworth came before the cities of Pasco, Kennewick and Richland staked out identities.
Rosemary Merckx, 95, has a studio in her apartment where she paints what inspires her. She’d taken a break from art for a while, but then during the height of the Covid-19 pandemic, she had a renaissance of sorts.
Two new lifesaving devices are being installed at Badger Mountain to help improve outcomes if someone goes into cardiac arrest while hiking or riding on the trails. The automated external defibrillators, or AEDs, are going in at Trailhead Park at the base of the hill, and at the Badger summit.
There is another solution to isolation, and you will find it right in your own yard. Pick an agency that does good in your community and volunteer to be a part of it.
Headstones bearing the Wallace family name stretch out in a long line at the Evergreen Cemetery outside Benton City. They mark the final resting place of Steve Wallace’s parents, grandparents and other relatives.
Wallace, 67, hopes to continue the line but the 2.5-acre cemetery at 7 W. Corral Creek...