OLYMPIA — A slower home-sales market and tighter lending standards have resulted in brisk business for Hometown Property Management, a business that manages more than 800 single-family rental houses in Thurston County. Co-owner Andrew Barkis says the business could manage more than 1,000 houses by next year.
OLYMPIA — Jon Jones, the new president and chief executive officer of Washington Business Bank, says he is on a mission to raise the South Sound profile of the six-year-old financial institution.
LACEY — Business opportunities between South Sound and China are high on Riley Moore's list of priorities.
OLYMPIA — Jeanette Hawkins gained political fame for issues such as promoting a downtown conference center, development of the Fourth Avenue bridge and installing traffic roundabouts while an Olympia city councilwoman.
TUMWATER — Three years ago this month, Joe Spancic's doctor diagnosed him with celiac disease, an intestinal disorder triggered by ingesting the food component gluten, found in wheat, rye and barley.
OLYMPIA — Providence St. Peter Hospital won a green business award last week from the Thurston County Chamber of Commerce, which cited the hospital's program of discarding used vegetable oil that volunteers convert to biodiesel fuel.
OLYMPIA — The average client of YWCA of Olympia supports a family on $650 a month, and about 54 percent of those who get weekly help with personal hygiene items or cleaning supplies are younger than 21, according to YWCA.
LACEY — For nearly three years, Celia Nightingale has been the director of the Small Business Development Center, a federally funded organization affiliated with South Puget Sound Community College that offers free business counseling.
OLYMPIA — Newly elected Olympia Mayor Doug Mah assumes the job with the city on the brink of several downtown construction projects and facing issues that could bring new regional economic development.
OLYMPIA — Bill Hutchinson took over as president of the Thurston County Realtors Association this year as the real estate market cooled off from record sales in 2006.
OLYMPIA — Capital Medical Center chief executive officer Michael Motte, 44, returned to the center last month after spending two years at a South Carolina hospital.
OLYMPIA — Mike Dexter doesn't mince words about his new role as executive director of the Olympia Lacey Tumwater Visitor and Convention Bureau.