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.
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.
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.
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.
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.”
Mary Jane Glaser’s continual volunteer work in the community earned her the Maple Valley Golden Leaf Award from the City Council.
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.
Tahoma High group wins film making contest with movie “The Last One”
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.
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.
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.
Pacific Coast Coal Company has applied to resume coal production in the John Henry No. 1 Mine near Black Diamond.
Gomer Evans’ Welsh family heritage and the story of a father’s years in the mines
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.
Tahoma High seniors gave Rock Creek Elementary students a different kind of test on May 19 — an air pollution IQ test.
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.
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.
It appears state funding from Olympia for proposed public projects will be slim.
When I think of a ghost town, a tableau of the iconic “High Noon” spaghetti-western comes into mind. It is…
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.
