Erica Enders thinks there will be some fast runs this weekend at Pacific Raceways which hosts the National Hot Rod Association’s 24th Annual O’Reilly Auto Parts Northwest Nationals.
Finding some place to put students in crowded schools is a task a newly formed committee is tackling for the Tahoma School District.
The ad hoc student housing committee met for the fourth time since the school year ended on July 27 at the district administration building.
Sabrina Roberts would have graduated in June with Tahoma High’s Class of 2011.
Instead an empty chair was placed among the graduates in her honor.
Fathers and sons racing together in the National Hot Rod Association’s championship drag racing series is nothing new.
Johnny Gray, 58, of Carlsbad, N.M., has been racing since he was a teenager but his son Shane is relatively new behind the wheel of the car.
Nearly nine months ago Bob Woodruff decided he was going to quit drag racing after a nasty accident in his super comp car.
Woodruff, a Maple Valley resident, took his car to a race in Las Vegas in November with fellow super comp drivers Earl Cunningham and Paul Nolak.
Driving is a family thing for Steve Glenn.
Steve Glenn, who lives in Covington, has three sons who are all involved in racing one way or another.
Makayla Williams laid on the floor of Joy Kawaoka’s classroom at Cedar Valley Elementary next to her ‘mat man.’
Kentlake’s Site Council didn’t meet again before the end of the year and I felt like I needed a little closure on Joe Potts’ first year as principal.
Foster parents need a support system and a new group hopes to do just that for those in Covington, Maple Valley, Black Diamond and surrounding areas.
Sometimes the start of something is in some ways better than reaching the end.
That’s how Tiffany Holland, executive pastor at Covington Christian Fellowship, feels now that the church has completed the first phase of its construction project.
A 42-year-old Covington man was arrested after shooting his estranged wife, another man and his sister-in-law in the early morning hours Sunday at Club Galaxy at Muckleshoot Casino in Auburn.
It’s no small feat to open a commercial shopping center but it can be even more challenging to fill one up in the midst of one of the worst economic downturns in nearly a century.
A new chapter has begun for the site known as Summit Place or the Donut Hole in Maple Valley.
Under the covered play area at Jenkins Creek Elementary School Trudy Schug dribbled toward a kid-sized hoop guarded by a tiny blonde girl.
Steve Glenn can add another trophy to his collection.
Glenn, who lives in Covington, wheeled his 1955 Chevy Handyman’s Wagon to a final round victory over Mark Campbell’s hard charging Camaro to claim the Super Pro win at the ninth race of the Pawn X-Change Drag Race Series race July 16 at Pacific Raceways. Both drivers posted .024 reaction times in a race that was decided by inches at the finish line.
Despite the dreary weather the Covington Days Parade went off Saturday without a hitch while drawing an appreciative crowd on its new route from Jenkins Creek Elementary to Cedar Heights Middle School on Kent Kangley Road.
Come fall, when the leaves start turning orange and red, trick or treating, pumpkin carving and the rain distracts the region, Mountain Vineyard Christian Fellowship members will start moving into their new church.
As Covington officials celebrate the completion of one phase of road work they are gearing up for the next project — widening Southeast 272nd Street from the Jenkins Creek bridge to 185th Street Southeast.
In late April I walked into Darren Collins’ portable classroom at Tahoma High and thought to myself, “Ah, so this is what they mean when they say the portables smell.”
Maple Valley Fire and Life Safety personnel responded to a home on fire 26900 block of 232nd Avenue Southeast about 10:25 this morning, according to Fire Marshal Scott Webster.
