 02/04/10 Heritage Financial Corporation announced today that Brian L. Vance, President and Chief Executive Officer will be presenting at the Sterne Agee Fifth Annual Financial Services Symposium to be held at the Peabody in Orlando, Florida on February 9th and 10th. Â Mr.
 02/04/10 VALLEY THEATER COMPANY. 7-9 p.m. Feb. 15-16. The Princess Theatre, 1226 Meade Ave., Prosser. For "The Man of La Mancha." Come prepared with a song and bring the sheet music; a pianist will be provided. 509-786-2180, www.valleytheatercompany.org.
02/04/10 FIRST FRIDAY ART WALKS. Visit participating galleries the first Friday of each month. * Downtown Yakima: 5-8 p.m. Info/list: Red Gallery and Studios. Open studio for adults and clay demostration in upstairs gallery and lounge. 509-469-2766, redgalleryandstudios.blogspot.com.
02/04/10 CASCADE WINE COMPANY. 5 tonight. Dennis Clauss and Laurel Cawley. 214 W. Yakima Ave. 509-972-2811. JACK-SONS SPORTS BAR: BLUES, BREWS AND BURGERS. Thursdays (except for comedy nights). Open blues jam: 7-9 p.m. Featured blues band: 9-11 p.m. 432 S. 48th Ave. 509-966-4340.
02/03/10 Matt Fairbank, the executive director of the Dispute Resolution Center, will conduct the assessment of Lower Valley wells.
02/03/10 The Teanaway Solar Reserve has selected Washington-based Potelco Inc., a Quanta Services, Inc. company, as an equity partner and contractor for the design and construction of a proposed photovoltaic solar project to be located 90 miles east of Seattle.
 01/14/10 This is a triple dose of bad news for real estate in Everett. These three separate bits of informati...
 01/09/10 Flags will be flown at half-staff Monday in memory of Grant County sheriff's Deputy John Bernar
 01/08/10 Associated Press - January 8, 2010 4:35 PM ET SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) - The Bureau of Land Management is seeking public comments on a proposed power transmission line that would cross central...
 01/08/10 The state Fish and Wildlife Commission is scheduled to accept public testimony on proposed updates to the Columbia River spring chinook policy and the Columbia River sturgeon management policy when it meets today and Saturday.
01/07/10 "THE VAGINA MONOLOGUES." 5 p.m. today. YVCC's Kendall Hall auditorium, South 16th Avenue and Nob Hill Boulevard. Faculty/staff, students and community members welcome. 509-574-4838.
01/07/10 FIRST FRIDAY ART WALKS. Visit participating galleries the first Friday of each month. * Downtown Yakima: 5-8 p.m. Info/list: Red Gallery and Studios, open studio for adults and clay demostration in upstairs gallery and lounge. 509-469-2766, redgalleryandstudios.blogspot.com.
 12/31/09 The state Department of Ecology is proposing to allow new groundwater withdrawals in central Washington's upper Kittitas County, a move that would enable developers to move forward on projects that have been on hold for months.
12/31/09 YAKIMA, Wash. -- A door is being cracked open for home-building to resume in upper Kittitas County after being halted for months by a ban on new water wells.
12/31/09 FIRST FRIDAY ART WALKS. Visit participating galleries the first Friday of each month. * Downtown Yakima: 5-8 p.m. Info/list: Red Gallery and Studios. Open studio for adults and clay demostration in upstairs gallery and lounge. 509-469-2766, redgalleryandstudios.blogspot.com.
12/31/09 WAREHOUSE THEATRE COMPANY AUDITIONS. Noon-5 p.m. Sunday and 7-9 p.m. Monday (call-backs). Allied Arts, 5000 W. Lincoln Ave. For "Almost, Maine." Parts available for men and women in their late teens, twenties and thirties. 509-966-0930 or mlabberton@aol.com.
12/31/09 YAKIMA, Wash.- From flash foods to fierce fires to deputies being shot at, Central Washington saw just about everything in 2009.
 12/30/09 Fourteen years ago, a pneumonia outbreak among bighorn sheep in Hells Canyon along the Snake River killed about 300 of the animals, leaving a scene one scientist called "like a war zone ... sheep lying dead everywhere you looked."
12/30/09 Because a pneumonia outbreak is so contagious and fatal, the idea of state wildlife officials killing a herd of Yakima River Canyon bighorn sheep is quickly moving from possible to inevitable.
12/27/09 A landslide swept across State Route 410 at 6 a.m. Oct. 11, blocking the highway about 10 miles west of Naches and creating havoc for homeowners and travelers for several weeks.
12/24/09 WAREHOUSE THEATRE COMPANY AUDITIONS. Noon-5 p.m. Sunday and 7-9 p.m. Monday (call-backs). Allied Arts, 5000 W. Lincoln Ave. For the production of "Almost, Maine." Parts available for men and women in their late teens, 20s and 30s. Info: 509-966-0930 or mlabberton@aol.com. | 
