Summer started just in time for the 23rd Annual Northwest Nationals at Pacific Raceways, just minutes from downtown Covington, when qualifying began Friday afternoon.
Maple Valley officials and Goodfellow Bros will break ground on the intersection improvement at Witte Road and Southeast 248th Street at 5:15 p.m., Monday, July 19.
Goodfellow Bros are a Maple Valley contractor that was awarded the bid in June to do the work on the project which includes, according the city’s Public Works Director Steve Clark, building a roundabout and a number of other intersection and street improvements.
Parades, fun runs, watermelon eating contests, food and art are on tap next weekend, July 16-18, during the annual Covington Days Festival.
Maple Valley’s Four Corners subarea plan has picked up steam again as the Planning Commission works on a recommendation for a concept for the final piece of the puzzle — the northwest quadrant.
There has been a sticking point on this portion of the plan, however, which has held up progress on adopting that portion along with other circumstances and projects the city’s planning department needed to work on.
This weekend, Brad Plourd will try to get back to basics at his hometown track, Pacific Raceways.
Plourd, who grew up in Maple Valley, will be racing in the National Hot Rod Association’s Northwest Nationals in Super Stock and Super Comp Sportsman classes.
Coming to Pacific Raceways evokes sentiment for top fuel driver Shawn Langdon as well as one of his crew members, Wes Barber.
Langdon is fond of the Northwest Nationals because it’s the first place he got a national event win in Sportsman racing in 2002.
Greg Oberst enjoys his day job working in marketing for a Seattle based retail company because it allows him to flex his creative muscle.
But lately, he’s been writing in a whole other niche, and in the spring Canadian publishing company Overtime Books put out his first book, “Washington Sports Trivia.”
Courtney Thompson has a resume a mile long.
The 2003 Kentlake graduate won three state championships with the volleyball team, was the 2002 Washington state Player of the Year, valedictorian of her class, has a slew of Pac-10 volleyball records set during her time playing at the University of Washington where she helped the Huskies to their first-ever national title in volleyball in 2005.
Playing the waiting game just wasn’t working anymore.
It became clear to Maple Valley officials waiting for federal stimulus money to pay for a roundabout at Witte Road and Southeast 248th was going to take too long.
Cancer gave Pat Rannow and her husband Arvid a one-two punch in 2009, but the Maple Valley couple has been fighting back and nowhere was that more evident than June 25 during the Relay for Life fundraiser at Tahoma Junior High.
There will be some shuffling of principals in the Kent School District as four Covington schools will have new principals effective July 1.
Meetings have been set to gather public input to help Maple Valley officials and the members of the Lake Wilderness Golf Course Task Force to determine the course’s future.
A cool and slightly damp morning didn’t diminish the excitement for the opening day of the second season of the Maple Valley Farmers Market on Saturday (June 19).
Nearly two dozen students at Cedar Valley Elementary got to end the school year on Friday with a bang by throwing pies at their teachers.
Trying to select one female athlete that stood out above all the rest of the talented student-athletes at Kentwood, Tahoma and Kentlake was so difficult we decided to select one from each school this year instead.
It started out simply enough under another name five years ago as a way for Dace Anderson to teach guitar lessons.
Now as Dace’s Rock ‘N’ More marks its fifth year in existence quite a lot has changed.
Things seem to just come together for the folks at the Carly Stowell Foundation.
First the foundation grew so quickly it had to slow down and assess before moving forward on some major goals and fundraising.
In November Chuck and Elena Stowell hosted the foundations second major fundraiser in Auburn. They started the foundation in honor of the memory of their daughter Carly who died suddenly of a heart arrhythmia in April 2007.
This Sunday is Father’s Day and this year I am looking at it in a whole new way.
After my dad died in 1986, Father’s Day became a non-holiday, there was no reason to celebrate it.
Among the carnival rides, elephant ears and corn dogs, booths for organizations, vendors and businesses on Saturday afternoon at Maple Valley Days, a throw down was under way.
Ginger “Mama” Passarelli, founder of the Soup Ladies and owner of Mama’s Steak and Pasta in Black Diamond, challenged Cedar Grill owner Cindy Gregory to a chicken soup throwdown
State representatives Glenn Anderson, R-Fall City, and Jay Rodne, R-North Bend, will host a district-wide telephone town hall at 6:50 p.m. on June 17.
