Today marks the final installment of the three annual honors we hand out here at the Reporter.
Like the Male and Female Athlete of the Year honors, we do not take the Coach of the Year award lightly. First and foremost, it must be understood how much time and effort the local coaches put in each and every season. And while coaches get paid a stipend for their work, it hardly accounts for the countless hours they put in during — and outside — the season.
Fans of the annual Covington Days festival, a Seafair sanctioned event, will notice quite a few changes for the event which runs Friday, July 15 through Sunday, July 17.
King County Sheriff’s deputies and Maple Valley police officers caught a man who robbed the Maple Valley branch of Bank of America this morning 10 minutes after he fled the scene.
Barbara Jeanne Anderson, a former Kentlake math teacher, will stand trial on Sept. 12 for a charge of first-degree sexual misconduct.
In Ginger Passarelli’s view, “food is love.”
After it became clear how devastating the effects were from the tornado that hit Joplin, Mo., Passarelli posted on the Soup Ladies Facebook profile, “Have any of you felt a tugging to go to Joplin?”
Suzanne Wicker sees herself as part of a team of moms.
With that in mind, she set up a website where busy mothers could get information about children’s activities as well as buy and sell gear their kids had outgrown, and called it Team Mom Maple Valley.
Around 7 p.m. Wednesday an accident occurred on Witte Road a few blocks away from Kent Kangley Road that blocked traffic on Witte.
Business is good in Covington.
Someday when all the pieces fall into place the Tahoma School District officials would like to build a fifth elementary school.
Erick Walker and I have both spent countless hours trying to figure out the answer to a simple question.
Who should be the male athlete of the year?
Tayler Saucedo transformed himself in nine months.
He went from winless on the mound for Tahoma High’s baseball team as a junior during the 2010 season to 7-1 in his senior campaign, helping to lead the Bears to a South Puget Sound League North Division title, while also catching the attention of college coaches and professional scouts.
I have a confession.
This past weekend I draped my press pass around my neck and attended two high school graduation ceremonies — Tahoma’s and Kentlake’s — not because I felt obligated to do so for the newspaper but because I wanted to see a bunch of kids from both schools graduate.
Sharing has its upsides, particularly for smaller city governments such as Covington, Maple Valley and Black Diamond.
In recent months all three cities have hammered out agreements to share among themselves in a way they hadn’t before.
Like every other district in the state, Tahoma School District officials have been playing the waiting game, and as a result are just about to wrap up the annual budget.
Kyle Conwell has options.
If the 2009 Tahoma High graduate gets the right offer, he could be playing minor league ball in the Los Angeles Dodgers organization by the end of the summer, and if not he can head down to Abilene Christian University in Texas where he has a baseball scholarship waiting for him.
Maple Valley officials celebrated the completion of a roundabout at Southeast 248th Street and Witte Road Southeast on Saturday with a ribbon cutting.
More than 300 students celebrated their graduation from Kentlake High on Saturday afternoon at ShoWare Center in Kent.
An empty chair honored the memory of Sabrina Roberts, who died in February 2010, while a few rows from the front sat Zackery Lystedt in a wheel chair as a hero among Tahoma High’s 517 graduating seniors.
Karen Crowe, current president of the Maple Valley-Black Diamond Chamber of Commerce, has announced she will run for Maple Valley City Council.
Maple Valley Mayor Noel Gerken has announced he will run for election seeking a third term on the City Council.
