Joel Martin

1 day ago | columbiabasinherald.com | Joel Martin

MOSES LAKE — The Moses Lake business community got a preview of the future of small business last week when the Chamber of Commerce unveiled its Chamber Catalyst Center downtown. “The first three years of a business are the most critical,” said Chamber Director Debbie Doran-Martinez. “Typically it’s five before you’re really solid.” That’s the hurdle that the Catalyst Center is designed to get past, Doran-Martinez explained, by nurturing startup businesses through those first few years.

2 days ago | columbiabasinherald.com | Joel Martin

MOSES LAKE — Ron Tebow has been a long trail, and it’s a long way from finished. “I’m halfway now,” Tebow said Friday. “Warden is right on half, 120 miles.” Tebow and his horse Olie have been riding the 251-mile Palouse to Cascades Trail, the primitive route that runs from the Washington-Idaho State Line to North Bend on the outskirts of Seattle. It combines the John Wayne Trail east of the Columbia River with the Iron Horse Trail west of the river.

3 days ago | columbiabasinherald.com | Joel Martin

MOSES LAKE — Moore Brewing Company hit a big milestone this week. The brewery and pub opened last May in the building formerly known as Broadway Bar & Grill, the Mighty Quinn, Barney Google’s or the Southshore Restaurant, depending on how far back you remember. Its first birthday celebrations included live music, a ribbon-cutting, crafts and a birthday party for co-owner Chris Moore, wrapping up with two comedy shows by Tanyalee Davis.

6 days ago | columbiabasinherald.com | Joel Martin

MOSES LAKE — Owners of homes along the shore of Moses Lake may see an improvement in the view from their docks after treatment the water received last summer. “Last summer, the lake saw a major breakthrough in water quality and for the first time in recent memory: the Rocky Ford Arm made it through the entire recreational season without a single harmful algae bloom advisory,” representatives of the water treatment company SePRO wrote in an email to the Columbia Basin Herald.

6 days ago | columbiabasinherald.com | Joel Martin

COLUMBIA BASIN — Live music, fundraiser dinners and arts and crafts. What are you waiting for? There’s something for everyone happening this week. May 9 H.E. Gritman Senior Center Fundraising Breakfast  Enjoy a homemade breakfast of pancakes and sausage or biscuits and gravy and sausage. Cost is $7 and all ages are welcome. All proceeds go to support the activities at the Senior Center. 7:30-10 a.m. at 118 W. Main Ave., Ritzville. Info: 509-659-1921.