Tag Archives: Washington County

Downeast Maine Scenic Bicycle Tour

The East Coast Greenway Trail Scenic Bicycle Route is over 2,600 miles from Key West, Florida to Calais, Maine. The last stretch of this scenic bicycle route is from Ellsworth to Calais. This 138 mile downeast bicycle route will allow you to tour breathtaking coastal scenery, travel through historical villages, and wind through the blueberry […]

Greenwood, Washington – Seattle’s Top Neighborhood

Check out Greenwood Washington, one of Seattle’s top neighborhoods… As late as 1800, Greenwood was actually a cemetery, and Woodland was called it until 1907. In 1907 the bodies were removed and the neighborhood was paved in place of housing. The oversized lots are 5,663 square feet, but some are now being subdivided for newer […]

Construction Starts on $2.9 Billion Southern Illinois Power Plant

Construction has officially started for the $2.9 billion Prairie State Energy Campus in Southern Illinois. The Peabody Energy complex is the largest private capital project in the region. The 16-hundred megawatt supercritical power plant is what is called a mine-mouth power plant, designed to burn coal mined from an adjacent coal mine using the most […]

Best Places to Live in Oregon (2011)

This article, the twenty-fourth in a 50-state series, ranks the best places to live in Oregon based on three criteria: (1) median household income (adjusted for cost of living); (2) educational attainment (% of residents 25 years and over who have earned a bachelor’s degree or higher); and (3) property crime rates per 1,000 residents […]