Harman Center Trips and Tours has recently issued two publications providing travel options for 2019. One is the annual “2019 Trips & Tours Guide” highlighting destinations ranging from Seattle Mariners baseball games to whale watching to mystery trips. The guide is available at https://yakimaparks.com/assets/2019-Travel-Guide.pdf New for the first time this year is Harman Center Trips
Traffic restrictions will be in place on portions of East Viola Avenue and East Mead Avenue next Monday through next Friday, January 7th through 11th so crews can repair shoulders on the roadway. Lane closures for both East Viola Avenue and East Mead Avenue are planned Monday through Friday from 7:00 am to 3:00 pm
The Yakima City Council will hold its first regular meeting of 2019 at 6:00 pm on Tuesday, January 8th in Council Chambers at Yakima City Hall, 129 North 2nd Street. Agenda items for the January 8th regular meeting include: Issuing a School Board Recognition Month proclamation. Appointing a member to the Lodging Tax Advisory Committee.
A free Shakespeare production, a second annual iron chef event, projects to help the community, and much more are included in the Winter 2019 Newsletter published by the City of Yakima’s Harman Center at Gailleon Park. The newsletter covers activities at the center scheduled during January, February, and March. It includes event announcements, as well
The City of Yakima is encouraging area high school seniors to apply for a $1000 scholarship being offered by the Association of Washington Cities (“AWC”). The AWC 2019 Center for Quality Communities Scholarship will be awarded to six high school seniors in spring 2019. Application packets can be downloaded from the City of Yakima website
Yakima police arrested a suspect in an armed robbery that occurred earlier today and are searching for suspects in two other armed robberies that happened over the weekend. At about 7:50 am today (Monday, December 31st), YPD officers responded to a report of an armed robbery at the Conoco mini-market located at 1023 South 3rd
Emergency calls to 9-1-1 are directly reaching the SunComm center that serves several first responder agencies in Yakima County, but additional testing is being conducted to ensure intermittent outages experienced early this morning after a major outage occurred last night are completely resolved. If an outage occurs again, or if anyone calling 9-1-1 gets a
April Pools Day (a free family swim activity), youth soccer and winter co-rec volleyball are just a few of the seasonal offerings available in the 2019 Winter/Spring Program Guide issued recently by Yakima Parks and Recreation. The 16-page guide is available at Yakima Parks and Recreation offices (2301 Fruitvale Boulevard), as well as online at
Emergency calls to 9-1-1 are again directly reaching the SunComm center that serves several first responder agencies in Yakima County. On Thursday evening, an outage that originated with CenturyLink resulted in SunComm switching to a backup phone number. Emergencies could also be reported during the outage by texting 9-1-1. The outage affected 9-1-1 calling capabilities
Emergency calls to 9-1-1 at the SunComm center that serves several first responder agencies in Yakima County is being affected by an outage that is being attributed to an as yet undetermined issue originating with Century Link. Until the Century Link issues are resolved, people in Yakima County can call 509-457-0207. Calls will then be
