Annual street maintenance work by City of Yakima Streets Division crews will impact daytime traffic at the intersection of 34th Avenue and Englewood Avenue from Wednesday, October 2nd through Friday, October 4th. The 34th Avenue and Englewood intersection will be closed to through traffic from 7:00 am until 3:30 pm each day on Wednesday, October
Tuesday, October 15th marks the end of the irrigation season for the vast majority of residential and business customers in Yakima. That’s the day that the systems operated by the City of Yakima’s Water/Irrigation Division will be shut off until next spring. The few other irrigation systems that operate independently from the City systems will
The Yakima City Council holds its next regular agenda business meeting on Tuesday, October 1st, 2013. The meeting begins at 6:00 pm at YakimaCity Hall. Items on the October 1st agenda include: – Consideration of proposed 2014 state and federal legislative and administrative priorities – Conducting a public hearing to consider extending a moratorium on new
The second in a series of fall community clean up events sponsored by the City of Yakima is scheduled for Saturday, September 28th and will target District 2, which is primarily south of Tieton Drive between 40th Avenue and 1st Street. A free drop off site will be open from 8:00 am to 1:00 pm
Earlier this year, the Yakima Arts Commission, an advisory group appointed by the Yakima City Council, developed an idea to harness the creativity of Central Washington artists to help invigorate windows of empty downtown storefronts by displaying their work as part of a new project called, “Windows Alive!”. Based on similar projects that have proven
Work on the City of Yakima’s ongoing grind and overlay project will impact traffic from September 23rd through September 27th on 16th Avenue and 40th Avenue as well as roads in the surrounding areas. Beginning on the evening of Monday, September 23rd and lasting through the morning of Friday, September 27th, significant activity along 40th
The Yakima City Council held its most recent regular agenda business meeting on Tuesday, September 17th. Action taken by the Council on September 17th included: – Setting a public hearing date of October 1, 2013 to consider extending a moratorium on billboards and digital signs – Approval of an agreement with HBB Inc for streetscape
Yakima Transit will once again be providing free shuttle bus service to the Central Washington State Fair from the Gateway Center parking lot. The Yakima Transit shuttle bus service is a fast and easy way to get to and from this year’s fair. Each day of the fair, which runs this year from Friday, September
Annual street maintenance work by City of Yakima Streets Division crews will impact daytime traffic on 66th Avenue between Englewood Avenue and Scenic Drive from Tuesday, September 17th through Thursday, September 19th. That section of 66th Avenue will be closed to through traffic from 6:00 am until 4:00 pm each day on Tuesday, September
An ongoing project to resurface several key sections of Yakima streets this summer and fall will impact traffic on sections of 16th Avenue, Walnut Street, 40th Avenue, and Summitview Avenue and Tieton Drive from September 16th through September 19th. The intersection of 40th Avenue & Tieton Drive will be closed Monday, September 16th at 8:00
