There is no scientific explanation for why Mary Osheskie got tongue cancer. The 32-year-old Maple Valley resident does not drink or smoke.
Yet, when she went to see Dr. Prewitt in Tacoma in June 2009, that’s exactly what she was told.
The cities of Maple Valley, Covington and Black Diamond will be participating in the 28th Annual National Night Out (NNO), a crime and drug prevention event on Aug 2.
The King County Prosecutor’s Office filed charges today against a Covington man who is accused in the July 24 shooting inside a crowded nightclub at the Muckleshoot Casino in Auburn.
Maple Valley Fire and Life Safety and Maple Valley police officers responded to a dump truck accident on state Route 169 at 11 a.m. today.
The King County Council has adopted a new model for interaction between the county and residents living in the unincorporated communities.
For author Sarah Gerdes, who lives near Maple Valley, the path to publication has been nontraditional.
The Maple Valley City Council overturned the city’s ban on peddlers and transient salesmen at its July 18 meeting and establishing a new chapter in its transient sales ordinance.
City Manager David Johnston explained the ban on door-to-door sales had been a part of Maple Valley’s original municipal code and only until recently had not been a priority.
Compared to the other sports in Black Diamond, baseball truly was in a league of its own.
In the past, if you missed the bus on routes such as 168, you had to wait for an hour for the next one to arrive.
Now, thanks to a Regional Mobility Grant from the Washington state Department of Transportation, the number of buses has doubled on routes around Maple Valley and Covington and decreased the head way to 30 minutes.
Homeless people, compassion and human dignity are the major topics of “The Ave.,” a new play written by Maple Valley resident Ed Corrigan.
George and Susan Pearson have been selected as Covington’s “Citizens of the Year” while Richard and Ina Balash have been selected as “Honor Citizens of the Year.”
A new event being planned by the Covington Chamber of Commerce called the Taste of Covington is slated for Aug. 20.
The number of students who qualify for free and reduced meals in the Tahoma and Kent school districts is growing.
As a result summer lunch programs and food banks have seen a sharp rise in visitors at their facilities.
The city of Covington had a ribbon cutting ceremony to celebrate the completion of the state Route 516 Improvement Project on July 13.
The Maple Valley City Council approved a year-long moratorium on zoning for collective gardens and dispensaries for medical cannabis.
Though baseball was the most prominent sport in Black Diamond, soccer held a special mark among the Welsh and European immigrants. They brought with them a strong passion for the game they called “football.” Soon, their passion was passed onto other immigrants and Americans in town.
The YWCA celebrated the grand opening of Passage Point, Thursday, July 7.
At the turn of the century in Black Diamond the sport of boxing was a popular form of entertainment.
As a coal mining town, where all of the men worked long hours performing manual labor, it was capable of producing more than a few big, muscular men who could knock someone out with a single punch.
A soccer program for children with special needs in Maple Valley will be available starting in September.
Talking to the Dogrukols about their effort to remain in America to have access to medical services for their daughter made me think hard about the American Dream.
