Marijuana licenses for Benton and Franklin counties are public record and are obtained from the Washington State Liquor and Cannabis Board.BENTON COUNTYNEW APPLICATIONSCrusher Weed, 15505 N. Webber Canyon Road, Suite G, Benton City. License type: marijuana producer tier 2; marijuana processor. Application type: change of location.APPROVEDPure Tran, 233757E. SR 397,...
The U.S. Department of Energy plans to extend two key contracts worth about $23 billion at the Hanford site. The U.S. DepThe Office of RiverProtection intends to extend the tank operations contract with Washington RiverProtection Solutions, and the Richland Operations Office intends to extend theplateau remediation contract with CH2M Hill...
The Tri-City Development Council’s longtime executive president and chief executive officer has announced plans to retire.Carl Adrian told the TRIDEC Executive Committee he will retire at the end of January 2020 during an Aug. 12 meeting. Adrian has been with TRIDEC for nearly 16 years and is its longest serving...
NEWHIRES•April Castañeda, a seniorexecutive with 20 years of experience leading human resources programs atCaltech and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, has been named director of humanresources at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. Castañeda joins theDepartment of Energy laboratory after serving as assistant vice president forequity and equity investigations at Caltech in Pasadena,...
Retiring Richland schools chief hired on for next yearThe Richland School Board determined that “it is in the best interests of our schools that Superintendent Dr. Rick Schulte continue leading our district during the 2019-20 school year.”Board membersapproved a one-year extension of his contract during the June 25 board meeting.He...
President, Tri-CU Credit Union (formerly Tri-Cities Community Federal Credit Union)Number of employeesyou oversee:17Brief background ofyour business:Tri-CU (formerlyTri-Cities Community Federal Credit Union) is the only small local credit unionin the Tri-Cities, originally founded in 1969 by the IBEW #112 ElectriciansUnion, right here in Kennewick. We have grown rapidly the last decade,...
Bentonand Franklin counties received more than $1.8 million in state recreationgrants to pay for a variety of projects, including improving a Pasco boatlaunch, developing a Pasco sports complex, renovating Prosser’s pool and buyingland for a Benton City riverfront park and future sports complex.FranklinCounty received $1 million, and Benton County received...
Community-wideevents to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the Hanford B Reactor kick off inAugust.Theworld’s first large-scale nuclear reactor went critical for the first time onSept. 26, 1944. Builtin just under a year, the reactor and the 1,200 or so other buildings thatpopulated the Hanford site by that time were the...
Anew powder-coating company capable of handling oversize materials has opened inPasco.GreatAmerican Powder Coating and Eco-Blasting recently opened a 6,000-square-footfacility that boasts an oven 25 feet long, 8 feet wide and 8 feet high at 1620E. Salt Lake St., Building A.Thenew business also offers an environmentally-safe, mobile eco-blasting system.Thislarge-scale operation is...