News Talk KIT » union gap mayor http://newstalkkit.com Tue, 21 May 2013 16:47:43 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 Union Gap City Hall Will be Back in One Building by 2013 http://newstalkkit.com/union-gap-city-hall-will-be-back-in-one-building-by-2013/ http://newstalkkit.com/union-gap-city-hall-will-be-back-in-one-building-by-2013/#comments Thu, 29 Nov 2012 15:42:15 +0000 Lance Tormey http://newstalkkit.com/?p=194097 It is the city's temporary answer for a long-term problem: a modular unit will be placed on city-hall grounds.

It comes after dangerous mold forced employees out of city hall and police headquarters earlier this year. Now city offices are scattered across town.

"There'

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The city currently has a strong mayoral form of government, but if approved by voters, the city would run like Yakima

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]]> http://newstalkkit.com/change-of-government-on-the-ballot-for-union-gap/feed/ 0 kit Union Gap Releases More City Employees http://newstalkkit.com/union-gap/ http://newstalkkit.com/union-gap/#comments Thu, 28 Jun 2012 14:20:55 +0000 Lance Tormey http://newstalkkit.com/?p=152085 Employee turnover in Union Gap continues while the city is stuck in a hiring freeze. Two more city employees were recently fired.  Both the interim city clerk and executive assistant were shown the door

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]]> http://newstalkkit.com/union-gap/feed/ 0 kit Union Gap Looking To Serve Beer At Old Town Days http://newstalkkit.com/union-gap-looking-to-serve-beer-at-old-town-days/ http://newstalkkit.com/union-gap-looking-to-serve-beer-at-old-town-days/#comments Tue, 29 May 2012 14:45:37 +0000 Lance Tormey http://newstalkkit.com/?p=140475 Union Gap's annual festival to celebrate the city's history could come with a twist. The event organizers are pushing for a beer garden. Our news partner KIMA Action News reports Mayor Jim Lemon thinks it's a bad idea because of the new location. Union Gap's Old

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Dirt and debris are being removed to make way for an outdoors-man's paradise. however, this paradise won't be outside, rather indoors at the Cabela's outpost store in Union Gap. The Mayor Jim Lemon says the st

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