Last week Ryan Ryals announced his weekly column has come to an end.
For nearly two years Ryan has written a column for The Reporter. Producing a column every week is a much more difficult task than most folks imagine.
Saturday afternoon the public testimony concerning the development agreements for the two YarrowBay master planned developments in Black Diamond came to a close.
MultiCare announced July 12 due to cuts in Medicare and Medicaid from the state the health care company will be laying off 350 employees.
There was an early report of a car accident involving a King County Sheriff’s deputy on state Route 169 south of the Green River Gorge Bridge between Enumclaw and Black Diamond at about 9 p.m.
Covington Days bands from Dace’s Rock ‘n’ More Music Academy and Ryegrass | Slide Show
The development agreement public hearings for the two Black Diamond master planned developments, The Villages and Lawson Hills, began at 6 p.m. at the Sawyer Woods Elementary School.
The band Sealth with Dace Anderson performed at the Maple Valley Farmers Market Saturday.
The seventh annual Miners Day celebration at Black Diamond Saturday drew a large crowd for music, food and fun.
The Maple Valley Youth Symphony Orchestra performed during the Fourth of July activities at Lake Wilderness Monday.
Maple Valley celebrated the Fourth of July at Lake Wilderness Park Monday with an array of activities for the kids, live music, a pie baking contest, entertainment by the Maple Valley Youth Symphony Orchestra and a firework display.
The Maple Valley Farmers Market watermelon eating contest attracted a table full of willing and happy kids Saturday.
Tahoma High graduate Derek Eager picked up another championship June 23, winning the javelin event at the USA Junior Outdoor Track and Field National Championship at Hayward Field in Eugene, Ore.
Public hearings on the development agreement for the two Black Diamond master planned developments, The Villages and Lawson Hills, has been scheduled to begin in July.
My friend and colleague Dean Radford, editor of the Renton Reporter, wrote a story recently that attracted my feeble attention.
Apparently some of the Valley Medical Center board members decided a code of ethics, or how to act like mom said we should, was a good item.
It was a hot week for political announcements and the making of a political career.
Gov. Chris Gregoire announced she was not running for a third term as governor, Attorney General Rob McKenna said he was running for the Olympia sleepover in the mansion and King County Councilman Reagan Dunn said he intends to fill McKenna’s vacant chair.
Dirt is starting to move on the MultiCare Urgent Care site in Covington as the free standing 24-hour emergency department construction gets started.
City Councilwoman Linda Johnson announced she will seek a third term on the Maple Valley City Council.
The 68-year-old Council member stated she is running because, “I have a voice that needs to be heard on the Council, and so many citizens asked me to run again I couldn’t walk away.”
Kristine Hanson will return to the campaign trail seeking a second term on the Black Diamond City Council.
The two YarrowBay master planned developments in Black Diamond continue to inch forward despite legal tangles spreading across a couple of superior court chambers and the Puget Sound Growth Management Hearings Board.
A 64-year-old woman from Black Diamond was airlifted to Harborview with serious injuries following a head-on collision at about 1 a.m. Thursday, May 19, on state Route 169 near 383rd Street outside of Enumclaw.
