There will be a couple of new faces at the King County Fire District No. 43 Board of Commissioners meetings.
Following the voters approval of Proposition No. 1, the board has expanded from three to five members. The commission oversees Maple Valley Fire and Life Safety which is also known as Fire District 43.
Waste Management garbage truck drivers represented by Teamsters Local 174 went on strike at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday affecting King County, including Maple Valley, and Snohomish County.
Michael Gonzales, spokesman for Local 174, said the union went on strike because of “unfair labor practices. We are trying to get them to come back to the table and negotiate. All they do is say, ‘this is their final offer.’ That is not negotiating.”
At 11:59 p.m. Thursday, April 15 the Black Diamond Hearing Examiner, Phil Olbrechts, released his decision stating the final environmental impact statement for The Villages and Lawson Hills to be adequate, which allows the master planned developments to move to the next round.
Tanya Amador has been leading Christian missions through her organization Corner of Love to San Ramon, Nicaragua for a decade, but her most recent trip was one of the most memorable.
Tanya and her husband, Nelson Amador, are the founders of the Maple Valley-based Corner of Love and act as executive directors of the nonprofit organization.
Nelson Amador was raised in northern Nicaragua and his father Alberto Amador, was the mayor of San Ramon where Corner of Love is based.
The contract dispute between Teamsters Local Union 174 and Waste Management continues with no resolution in sight.
The union represents garbage truck drivers working for the Houston, Texas-based Waste Management.
The contract between the union and Waste Management expired March 31, but the drivers have continued to pick up garbage, recycling and yard waste on schedule.
Paying the bills flared into a hot topic Monday at the Maple Valley City Council meeting.
City Councilwoman Linda Johnson walked out of the meeting rather than vote on paying a bill from the Seattle law firm Foster Pepper.
Covington officials are hoping for a hospital to be built in the city, and the City Council passed a resolution supporting the idea.
The members passed the resolution unanimously calling on the Washington state Department of Health to issue a Certificate of Need for a hospital in the city.
The only medical institution currently seeking a Certificate of Need for a hospital in Covington is MultiCare.
The King County Sheriff’s office has scheduled a community notification meeting 6-8 p.m. at Cedar Heights Middle School regarding two level 3 sex offenders living in the area.
The Tahoma baseball team took an 8-5 win at home over Kent-Meridian Thursday after falling behind early.
On a cold afternoon, the Bears went down 4-2 after the first inning, but the boys kept swinging the bat, running the bases and throwing until taking the lead in the fourth.
Bear Metal, the Tahoma Robotics team, competed in the 2010 Microsoft Seattle Regional FIRST Robotics Competition at Key Arena March 27-28.
The team won the Industrial Design Award with its robot during the competition.
MultiCare is on the planning road to build an emergency department and 58-bed hospital in Covington to serve the south King County area.
MultiCare has scheduled a town hall meeting to gather information from the public about the projects from 6-8 p.m. April 14 at Cedar Heights Middle School, 19640 S.E. 272nd St. in Covington.
Work on Covington’s downtown plan revision is in the home stretch, according to Planning Manager Richard Hart.
“The consultant completed their study in September,” Hart said. “We took all of the policy recommendations out of that document and put those into the new downtown plan element of the comprehensive plan.”
That downtown element was one of a handful of changes to the comprehensive plan that were adopted in December.
The Tahoma track and field team is a month into the season and the medals are piling up.
Leading the way for the Bears in field events is senior Derek Eager. According to the Athletic.net Web site, Eager is ranked No. 1 in the nation throwing the 800-gram javelin. He pegged 218 feet, 7 inches at the Kent Invitational March 27, giving him the top distance in the country.
Tension between the Valley Medical Center Board of Commissioners has been increasing at the past few meetings and it reached a boiling point Monday.
The acrimony centered on a swirl of conflict of interest questions surrounding the construction of a free standing emergency department in Covington and audio taping commission meetings.
Maple Valley is looking for a few good women and men to form a golf course task force.
The clock is ticking on a number of issues surrounding the Lake Wilderness Golf Course that will need to be settled, according to city officials.
A 36-year-old Kent woman died in a rollover accident at 7:30 p.m. today, April 5, on state Route 167 south of 277th.
According to a report from the Washington State Patrol, the woman was traveling southbound on SR 167 when she swerved into the HOV lane to avoid slowing traffic.
A 42-year-old Black Diamond resident, Christopher Wise, has been charged with two counts of domestic violence manslaughter in the 2009 death of his 88-year-old mother, Ruby Wise.
The King County Prosecutor charged Christopher Wise with first degree manslaughter, domestic violence and second degree manslaughter, domestic violence.
A large group of children participated in the 14 annual The Greater Maple Valley Community Center egg hunt Saturday, April 2, at Lake Wilderness Park.
Tahoma High athletes Tate Latimer and Derek Eager had big days at the Arnie Young Invitational Saturday, April 3, at Renton Memorial Stadium.
The Tahoma track and field team traveled to Auburn High Thursday, April 1, and both the both the boys and girls teams won.
The girls took home a dominating 109-41 victory.
Tate Latimer won two events taking the 100-meter sprint in 13.35 seconds and the 100-meters hurdles in 15.51 seconds.
Sarah Jeric took the 300 hurdles in 51.33.
