Love’s Truck Stop and Country Store to bring many new jobs

Sixty-five to 75 new jobs are coming to Ritzville. The long-awaited confirmation that a Love’s Travel Stop and Country Store would be located here, has finally come to fruition as a variety of legal filings and the general plans for the project become public.

Mayor Linda Kadlec proudly confirmed recently that plans are moving ahead with the project, which will be located on 9.688 acres of land along State Route 261 across the road from Big Bend Electric Cooperative.

“This is an addition to Ritzville that we have been looking forward to for the last 15 to 20 years,” Kadlec said. “We need limite...