The Tahoma School District is transitioning to the new Common Core standards this year, including introducing the SMARTER Balanced tests.
The Black Diamond City Council unanimously approved the appointment of Christy Todd as city administrator at its special meeting and town hall Jan. 9.
The Maple Valley City Council approved an amendment to the city sign code allowing one portable sign per business, civic or community event in a 4-2 vote Monday night.
The perfect storm of bad timing and rapidly changing road conditions wreaked havoc on the Dec. 20 morning commute and caused staff and administrators for the Kent School District to re-evaluate the district’s snow policies.
The Tahoma School Board approved placing a maintenance and operation levy and a technology levy on the Feb. 11 special election ballot at the Dec. 17 meeting.
Residents of Forest Creek submitted a petition to the Puget Sound Educational Service District to move their subdivision from the Kent School District to the Tahoma School District.
One of Dave Gordon’s first acts as mayor of Black Diamond was to replace City Administrator Mark Hoppen Jan. 2.
After the final bell on a cold December day students at Kentlake High come to the green room to wait for their turn to audition.
The city of Maple Valley is expecting to finish in the red on the Lake Wilderness Golf Course budget this year, but is planning to break even in 2014.
The Maple Valley Planning Commission unanimously voted to recommend amending the city’s sign code to the City Council, specifically permitting businesses and civic and community events to have one A-frame or A-board sign.
Christmas and Disneyland, two of my favorite things, and Disneyland at Christmas, well, lets just say it doesn’t get much better than that.
The unusually cold weather caused the pipe to freeze and a sprinkler head in one of the classrooms broke and fell from the ceiling, sending water pouring into a classroom in Unit C and spreading throughout that building.
According to code.org, in the United State nine out of 10 high schools don’t offer computer programming classes.
Funding for several public works projects as well as supporting a reinstatement of liquor revenue sharing and supporting Covington’s project to widen Kent-Kangley at Jenkins Creek are the top legislative priorities for Maple Valley in 2014.
Participants in new Maple Valley Youth Symphony Orchestra program set to perform for the first time Friday night
Boys swim and dive season kicks off with the first dual meets this week for Tahoma, Kentwood and Kentlake in the South Puget Sound League North.
Kentwood DECA students are preparing for the sixth annual hypnotist show at the school where they hope to raise $4,000 for Ronald McDonald House of Seattle on Friday.
Managing decreased general fund revenues and a need to diversify Maple Valley’s tax base are the two main themes in the city’s 2014 preliminary budget.
Low income seniors may be able to get exemption on taxes related to schools
The city, which is in its first year of a two-year interlocal agreement with Kent for courts and jail services, saw increased costs this year which surpassed expected increases over the low costs under the previous interlocal agreement with Enumclaw.
