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Relay for Life teams in Maple Valley walk...
By TJ Martinell • July 2, 2011 9:37 pm

Participants in the Relay for Life June 24 and 25 at Tahoma Junior High walked through drenching rains and unseasonably cold weather for the American Cancer Society event.

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A game at the Black Diamond baseball field
Miner Leagues: And on the seventh day they...
By TJ Martinell • June 30, 2011 6:37 pm

I’ll be doing a series on the history of sports in Black Diamond.

It will be broken down into three main topics: how the sport was played in Black Diamond, some notable athletes and a few games worthy of remembrance.

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Birtane Dogrukol
Kent family searches for a way to stay...
By TJ Martinell • June 29, 2011 7:25 pm

Melih Dogrukol, a retired Turkish air force pilot, and his family are facing a dilemma.

The family may be deported back to Turkey once his work visa expires.

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First steps taken to bring the YMCA to Maple Valley
First steps taken to bring the YMCA to...
By TJ Martinell • June 29, 2011 7:14 pm

A trio of Maple Valley mothers envisioned the day when they will be able to drop their children off for a youth program while they exercise in a gym — all at the same place.

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Kaitlin Duffy
Tahoma Junior High student wins ‘write a bill’...
By TJ Martinell • June 15, 2011 7:43 pm

Kaitlin Duffy had never won anything in her life.

So when the ninth grader at Tahoma Junior High received an email informing her she had won the “Write a Bill” contest, “I screamed for a while.”

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Mary Jane Glaser presented with Golden Leaf Award by Maple Valley City Council
Mary Jane Glaser presented with Golden Leaf Award...
By TJ Martinell • June 15, 2011 7:41 pm

Mary Jane Glaser’s continual volunteer work in the community earned her the Maple Valley Golden Leaf Award from the City Council.

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David and Jenelle York received a card and rose after they were victims of identity theft.
Maple Valley couple receives card and rose by...
By TJ Martinell • June 13, 2011 8:44 pm

A rose in a vase and a thank you card is usually an expression of gratitude and thoughtfulness.
But when it is sent by an identity thief to his victims, it’s “like sticking a finger in their eye,” as Maple Valley resident David York puts it.

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David Stoecker stands next to a grave in the Maple Valley Hobart Cemetery during the final scene of “The Last One.”
Last film standing in Insomniacs Challenge
By TJ Martinell • June 10, 2011 11:31 am

Tahoma High group wins film making contest with movie “The Last One”

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Renovated Circle K opens in Maple Valley | Business
Renovated Circle K opens in Maple Valley |...
By TJ Martinell • June 9, 2011 8:42 pm

The 76 gas station on state Route 169 and Kent-Kangley Road opened its renovated Circle K Store last week.

Construction on the store started on March 8, roughly a year after owner Ghirmai Abraha, 42, decided that the station’s auto repair shop wasn’t financially viable.

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A competitor drives his tractor in the lawn mower races at last year’s Maple Valley Days at Lake Wilderness Park.
Gearing up for fun times at Maple Valley...
By TJ Martinell • June 8, 2011 10:13 pm

Organizers of Maple Valley Days are looking for anyone to help volunteer at the event set for this weekend at Lake Wilderness Park.
Cindy Webb, president of the Maple Valley Days Committee, stated that help is needed to assist the vendors in unloading their vehicles, as well as cleaning up the Park Sunday.

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Sue Wilson tells Bible stories to three girls Saturday at the Timberlane  block party. The day included events for the families in the community.
Timberlane community in Covington comes together with block...
By TJ Martinell • June 3, 2011 6:02 pm

An effort to bring together the Timberlane community transformed the notion of a free garage sale into a carnival-style block party Saturday.

Karen Evans, who runs the community service at Mountain Vineyard Christian Fellowship, stated a free garage sale was first proposed as a “mutual sharing” of material blessings.

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Pacific Coast Coal Company plans to reopen John Henry mine in Black Diamond
Pacific Coast Coal Company plans to reopen John...
By TJ Martinell • June 2, 2011 6:30 pm

Pacific Coast Coal Company has applied to resume coal production in the John Henry No. 1 Mine near Black Diamond.

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Gomer Evans Sr. left
Memories of a coal mining father in Black...
By TJ Martinell • June 2, 2011 6:20 pm

Gomer Evans’ Welsh family heritage and the story of a father’s years in the mines

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U-Top It offers self-serve style yogurt in Covington
U-Top It offers self-serve style yogurt in Covington
By TJ Martinell • June 2, 2011 1:11 am

U-Top It, a frozen yogurt eatery in Covington, sells its yogurt like Washington gas stations sell gas. The customer does it all themselves.

The idea came about after Jennifer Ketels, who founded U-Top It in 2008, spent 18 months researching other businesses which follow a self-serve style formula to come up with her own concept which would both sell frozen yogurt and be tailored for children.

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Tahoma high students play Captain Planet | News
Tahoma high students play Captain Planet | News
By TJ Martinell • May 27, 2011 1:51 pm

Tahoma High seniors gave Rock Creek Elementary students a different kind of test on May 19 — an air pollution IQ test.

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Hollywood inspires Kentwood trade show | Community
Hollywood inspires Kentwood trade show | Community
By TJ Martinell • May 26, 2011 6:28 pm

The Kentwood Trade Show set for June 1 is expected to be the largest ever, with 100 companies setting up booths in Kentwood High School gym.

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The master arm for the traffic signal at 228th Avenue Southeast and Southeast Kent Kangley Road after a King County transportation services dump truck hit it earlier this week.
Dump truck damages traffic light arm in Maple...
By TJ Martinell • May 26, 2011 1:40 pm

The signal master arm for the traffic light at 228th Avenue Southeast and Southeast Kent Kangley Road in Maple Valley was bent when a dump truck struck it earlier this week.

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5th District legislators see little money in state budget for local projects
5th District legislators see little money in state...
By TJ Martinell • May 23, 2011 3:16 pm

It appears state funding from Olympia for proposed public projects will be slim.

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The grave of Alice Gertrude Johnson in the Franklin Cemetery. The date of birth and death read: January 1
Maple Valley/Black Diamond heritage: Franklin the ghost town
By TJ Martinell • May 20, 2011 11:40 am

When I think of a ghost town, a tableau of the iconic “High Noon” spaghetti-western comes into mind. It is…

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Sun: “Still I dream of it”
Sun: “Still I dream of it”
By TJ Martinell • May 19, 2011 4:06 pm

The Beach Boys aren’t meant to be played in the middle of a tropical monsoon which is exactly what Western Washington has been going through.

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