Thomspon Hill Development Project Gets a Green Light
Nov 4, 2009 Kennewick Real Estate
The idea is to build 27 homes on 23 acres on the north side of Thompson Hill in Kennewick.
I’m all for progress, and I think those homes will have some amazing views and I don’t even think they’ll clutter up the landscape on the currently pristine hillside.
However, next time you’re in the vicinity of Thompson Hill, take a good look at it. It’s awfully steep. The article states that they plan to set a portion aside that cannot be built upon due to its slope. I’m simply saying I’d set the whole thing aside!
Entire Kennewick School District is on Twitter
Nov 3, 2009 Kennewick Schools
This is pretty cool. The entire Kennewick School District is on Twitter. And by “entire,” I mean the district itself and every one of its schools. It’s cool because Twitter is a great, great way to get news and information from sources you want to “follow.”
Now, some of the schools are slow in starting to use Twitter appropriately, but here’s a screenshot of the Washington Elementary account — they’re using it exactly as it should be used:
How great is that? The school is sending out quick updates to parents and other interested persons. Hopefully all the schools will follow Washington’s lead and turn their Twitter accounts into something beneficial for the parents and community.
If you’re interested in following the Kennewick school(s) that your kids attend, or the ones that are in your neighborhood, here’s the full list of KSD Twitter accounts.
District
http://twitter.com/ksddistrict
Elementary Schools
http://twitter.com/ksdamistad
http://twitter.com/ksdcanyonview
http://twitter.com/ksdcascade
http://twitter.com/ksdeastgate
http://twitter.com/ksdedison
http://twitter.com/ksdhawthorne
http://twitter.com/ksdlincoln
http://twitter.com/ksdridgeview
http://twitter.com/ksdsouthgate
http://twitter.com/ksdsunsetview
http://twitter.com/ksdvista
http://twitter.com/ksdwashington
http://twitter.com/ksdwestgate
http://twitter.com/ksdmcpp (Mid-Columbia Parent Partnership)
Middle Schools
http://twitter.com/ksddeserthills
http://twitter.com/ksdhighlands
http://twitter.com/ksdhorseheaven
http://twitter.com/ksdpark
High Schools
http://twitter.com/ksdkamiakin
http://twitter.com/ksdkennewick
http://school.ksd.org/phoenix
http://twitter.com/ksdsouthridge
http://twitter.com/ksdtritech
Bridge to Bridge Task Force Meeting on Thursday
Nov 2, 2009 Kennewick News
The Bridge to Bridge/River to Railroad Task Force has its next meeting on Thursday of this week — November 5th at 2 pm in the council chambers at Kennewick City Hall. You probably know that this part of town — the revitalization of it, in particular — is one of the city’s main priorities.
At this week’s meeting, the task force agenda includes a review of some results from recent online surveys about the project area and how locals view things like shopping, transportation, real estate, and recreational opportunities. One of the telling survey results shows the challenge that downtown businesses have in attracting new customers:
The text is a bit small (sorry), but it shows that, for all 11 products/services listed, people are more likely to shop somewhere other than the downtown Kennewick area. Perhaps not surprising, but it puts numbers to the challenge that people have been talking about for a long time. The survey was answered by a little more than 100 people, about 2/3rds of whom are Kennewick residents.
That’s just one of the interesting survey results that I assume will be discussed this week. If you want to see a larger version of those results, or the many other survey results, visit the Task Force web page and click on “Agenda Packet” under “November 5, 2009.”
