Growth Management Hearings Board denies motion to invalidate ordinances approving Black Diamond developments
Maple Valley Fire and Life Safety firefighters responded to a Saturday morning house fire and discovered a suspected massive marijuana growing operation occupying three floors of the home.
Nearly 900 marijuana plants were found with an estimated street value of $900,000. Each plant is consider to be worth about $1,000. Samples have been sent to a lab to confirm the plants are marijuana.
The AT&T plan to purchase T-Mobile for a cool $39 billion has been hot news the past week.
I am hoping this means I will no longer need to stand in the street and wait for a cement truck to nearly run me over before I finally get those funny little connection bars.
The Tahoma Junior High Drama Club presented “My Son Pinocchio” March 11-19 at the Tahoma Middle School Theartre.
The play was directed by Earlene DeLeon, produced by Ronda DenHerder with musical direction by Carrie Sleeper-Bowers.
A 40-year-old Maple Valley man, Troy Allen Hewitt, was charged with second degree murder and first degree assault by the King County Prosecutor today, March 23, in superior court.
Hewitt is alleged to have stabbed to death James Reed III and wounded Reed’s 49-year-old father with a knife, March 20, following a bar fight at the at the Red Dog Saloon located at 18605 S.E. Renton-Maple Valley Road in unincorporated King County.
The King County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office filed a first-degree sexual misconduct charge Tuesday in Superior Court, a class C felony, against Barbara Jeanne Anderson, a Kentlake High School teacher.
The 37-year-old math teacher is alleged to have had sexual contact with a 17-year-old male student who was in her class at the school.
The King County Sheriff’s office reported a woman teacher at Kentlake High teacher was arrested and booked into the King County jail Thursday, March 17, for investigation of sexual misconduct with a minor, first degree, a class C felony.
Sgt. John Urquhart, spokesman for the King County Sheriff’s Office stated the 37-year-old woman is alleged to have had sexual contact with a 17-year-old male student.
The Kentwood fastpitch team played Bothell to a 1-1 tie Saturday at home.
Bothell went up 3-1 in the top of the seventh, but the Kentwood girls did not get an to swing the bat in the bottom of the seventh due to a time limit on the game.
Spring is right around the corner which means the Tahoma High baseball team is back between the lines.
Coach Russ Hayden is in his 19th year at the helm of the Bears baseball program and carries a career record coming into the season of 241-147-4.
Hayden said the team has only just started practice and played one game, but, the early results were impressive.
Robert Hughes was driving on the Auburn-Black Diamond Road today at the precise moment when a blue pickup drove off the road into Covington Creek. Because Hughes and four other men were there, a man’s life was saved.
The pickup hit a guardrail and rolled into the creek at about 4 p.m. today, March 15, on the Auburn-Black Diamond Road near Camp Berachah in the 19800 block of Southeast 328th Place.
New director brings three decades of experience in planning.
The legal gymnastics surrounding the appeals of the YarrowBay master planned developments in Black Diamond took another turn March 4.
A hearing was scheduled before Superior Court Judge Cheryl Carey March 4, but the proceedings were put on hold once the parties reached an agreement calling for a direct review by the court of appeals concerning a ruling from the Growth Management Hearings Board.
The sweet science.
The term is usually associated with boxing. An equally entertaining ballet of the ring is politics, and if you listen carefully, the first whispers of the political system have begun.
From hospital boards to city councils to state races the moves are being made early and quietly.
The census numbers are in and the counting of noses has revealed some interesting trends.
The U. S. Census Bureau released the facts and figures from the 2010 census, and as expected, Maple Valley and Covington experienced considerable growth. Over the last 20 years Black Diamond has seen a significant increase, jumping from 1,422 in 1990, to 3,970 in 2000 and topping out at 4,151 in the 2010 census count.
Last snow of the season?
Maybe.
With the first day of spring about two weeks away, the snow that began Feb. 23 with about four inches accumulating around Black Diamond, Covington, Maple Valley and surrounding area may be the last of the white weather we see until the next snow season.
State Sen. Cheryl Pflug and several health care facilities are on a collision course over a freestanding emergency room Senate bill in Olympia.
Pflug, R-Maple Valley, is the prime sponsor of Senate Bill 5515 that would place a two-year moratorium on the construction of freestanding emergency departments. During the moratorium period the legislature would study whether the state should impose regulations on the construction of freestanding emergency rooms.
I’m looking for a small sign from above.
Nothing too fancy. I’m not asking for an omen with a bird flying backwards. Just something simple telling me what in the heck I should do with all the pokey things attacking me in my yard and explaining why my stupid grass is growing in the middle of winter.
It was a party time at the Greater Maple Valley Community Center Feb. 18 with two special birthday celebrations.
Walt Brookins was celebrating his 90th birthday and Elwyn Weide was marking up 100 years.
Brookins spent an active life working as a fisherman, a crewman aboard a luxury yacht when he was younger and then 40 years at Boeing.
The National Weather Service has issued a winter snow advisory for the Seattle area today, Feb. 24.
Snow fell over night around the Covington, Maple Valley and Black Diamond area with some places reporting four inches or more.
The legal wheels are in motion around the master planned developments The Villages and Lawson Hills in Black Diamond.
Following the Feb. 15 Growth Management Hearings Board ruling remanding back to the city the ordinances approving The Villages and Lawson Hills, the City Council passed a resolution in response to the decision and the developer of the projects, Kirkland-based YarrowBay, filed an appeal in state superior court.
