The Tahoma High volleyball team ended a dramatic season Nov. 12 with losses to Mead and Jackson at the Class 4A state championships.
While the team may not have been a favorite to advance to the state tournament at the beginning of the season, the girls put the work in and it paid off with a trip to the Toyota Center in Kennewick, Wash.
The times are changing, at least in Maple Valley and Black Diamond.
Black Diamond will have a new mayor in 2010, Rebecca Olness, and two first-time City Council members, Craig Goodwin and William Saas.
Howard Botts has wielded the mayor’s gavel in the Black Diamond for more than two decades.
The budget discussion at Monday’s meeting of the Maple Valley City Council showed the signs and strains of challenging economic times.
City staff has proposed a .75 utility tax increase to pay for program enhancements and staffing. The tax increase has created discussion during the past few meetings and Monday brought additional, pointed questions from council members.
The Ensemble Ballet Theatre dancer will be preforming “The Nutcracker” in the December.
The production will be Dec. 4, 5 and 6 at the Renton IKEA Performing Arts Center.
The Covington City Council will soon be taking public comment and considering how the city’s downtown will look in the very near future.
A public hearing is scheduled for 7 p.m. Tuesday in the Council Chambers on downtown zoning and comprehensive plan amendments.
The Kentwood girls soccer team beat South Kitsap 1-0 today at Mount Tahoma High stadium.
The Kentwood girls soccer team takes on South Kitsap in the second round of the state 4A playoffs.
Tahoma High shortstop Taylor Smart proved hard work and talent payoff in both life and baseball, and now he is…
The Tahoma girls battled Skyline for 80 minutes and a couple of overtime periods before falling 1-0 in a shootout in the first round of the state 4A girls soccer playoffs at
The Lake Wilderness Elementary School honored veterans at an assembly Monday.
The school’s choir sang and Paloma Kunesh played her harp.
U.S. Sen. Patty Murray spoke at Tahoma National Cemetery Wednesday during the Veterans Day ceremony.
The King County Council passed a motion Monday concerning the Summit Place property that may extend the development deadlines.
The 156 acre parcel, known as the donut hole and owned by the county, is located inside the city near 228th Avenue Southeast and Southeast 272nd Street. The site is currently home to a county operated transportation maintenance facility and the back nine holes of Elk Run Golf Course.
The Maple Valley fire department is facing a shrinking budget and layoffs in 2010 like other government agencies across the state and nation due to the recession.
The Tahoma girls soccer team takes on Skyline in the first round of the state playoffs.
The Kent and Maple Valley fire departments responded to a house fire at 6:45 a.m. this morning in the 19200 block of S.E.267th Street, the Timberlane area of Covington.
The Kent Police Department confirmed the victim in a shooting incident in Kent is 37-year-old Mark Owen, son of Lt. Gov. Brad Owen.
Mark Owen is listed in satisfactory condition at Harborview Medical Center.
Black Diamond Proposition No. 1 bounced back to the yes side by three votes today.
King County Elections posted the latest results and the public safety services replacement levy had 660 yes votes and 657 no.
The Kentwood girls punched a ticket to the state soccer tournament Saturday
The Conks shutout Gig Harbor 3-0 at Art Crate Stadium in Spanaway Saturday in the West Central District III playoffs
Kentwood will play at Eastlake 7 p.m. Tuesday in the first round of the state playoffs.
The Tahoma girls soccer team will be playing in the state tournament after beating the Kentlake Falcons 1-0. That is the simple part of the story.
But the real story was about two teams of girls, going through a day of twists and turns, and in the end playing 80 minutes of the best high school soccer anyone could ask to see.
The state soccer tournament is one step away for either Kentlake or Tahoma.
