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Friday

🎹 Steve Carver - Jazz Piano at The Emerald 🛍 Valentine's Day Pop-Up store shopping at Ethos Bakery 🎸 Chelsea Spence-Crane live music and tsp Bakeshop at Goose Ridge 🎺 Jeff Peterson at The Village Bistro 🎸 Bobby & Faith Live at Koko’s Bartini 🎸 Jack Jones live music at Mezzo Thai 🎾 Sweetheart Tennis Tournament at CBRC Tennis 💃🏼 Valentines Day Dance at Pasco Eagles 🎭 Stage Readings: "Facing Our Truth" at CBC Arts Center 🌠 “Cell! Cell! Cell!” Public Shows at CBC Planetarium 🏒 Tri-City Americans vs. Moose Jaw Warriors at Toyota Center 🎸 Jamie Nasario live music at Michele's 🎸 These Guitars Say Sorry live music at Copper Top 🎤 Monica Nevi headlines Jokers 🎸 Knutzen Brothers live music at Silos 🎸 Robin & Tiphony live music at 3 Eyed Fish 🎸 Free Agent live music at Crow's Nest 🎸 BI PROM with Stompin‘ Ground live music at the Branding Iron

Saturday

📚 Author Signing: Joseph Malik at BNKennewick 𑁍 Drop in Henna at Lotus of the Moon 🧠 Trivia at Richland Community Center 🎸 David Chavey-Reynaud live music at Bartholomew Winery 🎸 Zilliox live music at Mezzo Thai 🎸 La Adictiva live music at The HAPO Center 🎸 Firesides live music at RF McDougall's 🎸 Tupelo Joe live music at D's Wicked Cider 🎸 Vaughn Jensen Experience live music at Michele's 🎸 Jack live music at 3 Eyed Fish 🎸 Tejano live music at Kennewick Eagles

Sunday

🧘‍♀️ Beer + Yoga at Moonshot Brewing 🧘‍♀️ Free yoga at Lotus of the Moon 🎮 Modern Warfare Tournament at PLAYlive Nation

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Finley Elementary school sign Local levies show passing numbers, except Ki-Be Mayor Don Britain in court Effort to recall Kennewick mayor tossed after judge concludes a mayor cannot be recalled for actions taken not in an official capacity for the city Funding still up in the air for new Tri-City Animal Shelter Benton commissioners stand with sheriff’s employees after vote of ‘no confidence’ in Sheriff Jerry Hatcher ‘Exit, Pursued by a Bear,’ a revenge comedy, now open at the Uptown Theater Tri-City Herald owner McClatchy files bankruptcy as it repositions for privately owned digital future Kennewick Arts Commission looks for artist to design roundabout art piece Rollin’ owner expands this summer Franklin county narc keeps officers safe during drug testing Hanford's B Reactor Makes USA Today's 10Best

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Gordon Estate Tasting Room prepares to open in March with custom wine bar City of Richland seeks concessionaires Franklin County inmate Franklin County man with autism jailed after his family, local law enforcment leaders and advocates say there’s nowhere else to put him State changes course on Hanford high-level waste classification Richland student bandaging a person’s foot RSD to launch Academy Of Health & Sciences Canyon Lakes residents petition to stop construction blasting Officers behind Pasco Police Facebook page explain intent Registration closes Sunday for Miss Juneteenth 2020: a local scholarship program motivating African American girls Frozen II showing at CBC Planetarium, Feb 20 at 4:30 and 7 pm New TacoTime opens on Keene near Queensgate

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Franklin Co. prosecutor Shawn Sant, and Pasco’s former municipal court judge, Dave Petersen, to run for judge Trump administration slashes $700 million of Hanford funding in proposed budget request Capital building in Olympia Washington Tri-City Reps. Brad Klippert and Matt Boehnke push ‘Parents bill of rights’ in Olympia Chiawana High’s Isaiah Anderson on the left Southridge bowler, Nicole Omlor, wins 3A girls state championship. Chiawana wrestlers take 9 division titles KEPR imagines Tri-Cities in 2035 with input from local leaders Richland couple among thousands quarantined on cruise ship in Japan due to coronavirus outbreak Green2Go and Tri-Cities Animal Shelter partner to raise money for new shelter with portion of today’s sales Tri-Cities Dutch Bros. donating $1 from each drink sold on Feb. 14 to Second Harvest

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Pasco City Council and staff invite community members to City’s community forums Feb. 26, 7 pm at Tierra Vida Rec. Center, March 4, 7 pm at the HAPO Center Photo of a walking trail New ADA compliant walking, biking trail opens at McNary National Wildlife Refuge in Burbank Benton County corrections officers and clerical workers support deputy sheriff union’s ‘no-confidence vote’ against sheriff Hatcher Hanford cheer defends best in the nation title Bob Harrington Former WSU Tri-Cities academic director, Bob Harrington, named new director of the School of Hospitality Business Management Gallery Underground features new installation: work of photographer Barb Thrall Mid Columbia Mastersingers tune-up vocalists with Spring Choral Singer Workshop, March 7.

👈 Links from last week

Benton County logo Benton County deposits $740,216.79 in phishing scam. $23,015.35 left unrecovered John Trumbo and Bob Thompson Tri-Cities councilmember compensation ranges widely. Kennewick’s Trumbo and Richland’s Thompson at the top City of Pasco now accepting applicants for Arts and Culture Commission Benton City Council passes vote of no confidence in Mayor Port of Benton hires Joseph Walker as new airport manager Hanford crews demolish plutonium finishing plant’s main facility: ‘Z plant’ Benton County Board of Commissioners approves allocation of $12,500 for feasibility study to turn old Trios hospital into recovery center Badger Mountain Elementary plans won’t change after state blocks matching money, but Richland’s 12th elementary school still uncertain

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Tri-Cities Crime Spotters stop taking tips following death of crime prevention specialist Mike Blatman Franklin County Planning Commission ties vote for recommendation of Mirror Ministries house for sex-trafficking survivors in Pasco with dicussion tabled to first Tuesday of March Ye Merrie Greenwood Renaissance Faire is back on, organizers announce Richland releases new, anonymous tip reporting program for citizens to share information about a crime or suspicious activity windmills along a hillside Scout Clean Energy plans 24 miles of windmills along ridgeline of Horse Heaven Hills Yakama Nation objects to Colville casino or water park construction in Pasco Animal shelter room with a dog in a cage and a woman at the end looking into a cage New Tri-Cities animal shelter may house fewer pets. Shelter volunteer leads charge for bigger facility