Archive | June, 2009

Children’s Museum has a new home

by Matt McGee on June 27, 2009 in Pasco News

We can happily update this post from a couple weeks ago with news that the Three Rivers Children’s Museum has a new home, and it’s staying right in the Broadmoor Outlet Mall facility. The new location is right across the parking lot, on the side where the Van Heusen outlet store is housed.
They’ve just started [...]

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Pasco High Honored by Newsweek

by Matt McGee on June 13, 2009 in Pasco Schools

Congrats to the Bulldogs!
Pasco High is ranked at No. 853 in Newsweek magazine’s list of the top 1,500 high schools in the U.S. Pasco’s been on the list the past four years, but this is their highest ranking yet.
Here’s how Newsweek describes the ranking system:
Public schools are ranked according to a ratio devised by [...]

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Can You Help the Children’s Museum?

by Matt McGee on June 11, 2009 in Pasco News

Update: The Children’s Museum has a new home. Details are here.
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You may have heard the news today — the Three Rivers Children’s Museum is losing its current space at the Broadmoor Outlet Mall and needs a new home. According to the museum’s web site, they have until the end of the month in their current [...]

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Pasco Fire Department in financial trouble?

by Matt McGee on June 7, 2009 in Pasco News

KEPR-TV ran a story last week suggesting that the Pasco Fire Department could be looking at a $300,000 budget shortfall this year. Why? Because people are spending less and the fire department gets most of its funding from sales tax revenue.
Fire Chief Bob Gear says the department is being more careful about monitoring work hours, [...]

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