Tahoma High graduate Ian Beckstrom will take the ice to play hockey with Utah State University’s club team this year after playing the past two season with the Seattle Totems Junior A Hockey club.
Members of the Covington Chamber of Commerce hit the links at Washington National for the annual Golf Classic Friday, Aug. 24.
In the nearly four years since members of Real Life Church discovered mountain biking trails on its property near Black Diamond an unlikely number of partnerships have formed.
Reese McGuire didn’t have much time to enjoy Kentwood’s 4A state baseball title in the spring.
While I was on vacation the week of Aug. 13 a letter from the Washington Newspaper Publishers Association arrived.
Time for a confession.
I had the opportunity to take a ride in a super gas car with an instructor from Frank Hawley’s Drag Racing School Aug. 1 but I couldn’t go through with it.
As soon as I realized I couldn’t do it I felt bad because Jason Fiorito, who is president of Pacific Raceways where the ride was supposed to happen, had personally invited me.
Water polo is growing in the Kent School District.
Maple Valley hosted a National Night Out celebration on Tuesday at the Glacier Valley Community Park.
Ed Cook believes in volunteerism so after serving on the Covington Economic Development Council it made sense for him to sign up for the city’s Budget Priorities Advisory Committee.
A Bellevue-based developer is assembling some chunks of land in Covington with the idea of bringing Red Canoe Credit Union to the city.
John Force, the legendary funny car driver who has won 15 championships in the class, was running around hugging and high fiving anyone who was willing at the starting line after his youngest daughter Courtney won her first national event Sunday at Pacific Raceways.
It was a local boy showdown, Maple Valley versus Covington, in the stock final Sunday at the 25th Annual O’Reilly Auto Parts Northwest Nationals at Pacific Raceways.
Ron Capps has plenty of fond memories of Pacific Raceways.
Capps, who drives the Napa Auto Parts funny car for Don Schumacher Racing, won his first national event title in a top fuel dragster in 1995 at the track which is just minutes from Covington, Auburn and Kent.
Jim Mabry hopes to bring home a Wally on his 61st birthday.
Like many professional drivers in the National Hot Rod Association, Steve Torrence, pilot of the Capco top fuel dragster grew up at the drag strip.
Ellensburg was all set to be the state capital in the summer of 1889 until a fire on the Fourth of July destroyed the town.
That’s the sort of history lesson, the kind of hidden gem Covington author Greg Oberst discovered while writing his second book, “Disasters of the Northwest: Stories of Courage and Chaos,” which was released last summer.
Covington musician Rae Solomon performed at the inaugural Covington Summer Concert Series July 27 at Kentwood High.
Patience seems to finally have paid off for Brad and J Johnson, owners of Johnson’s Home and Garden in Maple Valley.
Cody McDonough learned his colors as a toddler by memorizing which brand of motorcycle was associated with which hue.
This is the second of a two-part series which explores how businesses survived or even opened and thrived during the recession which began in 2008.
