Memorial Day service at Tahoma National Cemetery
At the request of the attorneys for the defendants, a decision on whether to seek the death penalty for the Christmas Eve murders of six family members – four of them from Black Diamond – has been delayed until late this summer.
A bigger library for Black Diamond is ready for its coming-out party.
Crestwood Elementary School students felt the aftershocks of the earthquake in China and the impact of the cyclone in Myanmar through a social-studies project in teacher Leslie Marshall’s sixth-grade class.
A special election next Tuesday will decide if King County Fire Districts 17 and 44 merge.
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“Fiddler on the Roof,” presented by the Kentwood Players, will be performed tonight at Kentwood High School’s Performaing Arts Center.
Kenneth Seng, who colleagues said made the public’s safety his “highest concern” while displaying leadership and “compassion” as a commissioner for Mountain View Fire and Rescue/Fire District 44, has died.
They attend rival schools, but Kentridge’s Lauren Sewell and Kentwood’s Rui Li are anything but bitter foes.
I have recently read two articles in your paper that speak to the continual questioning of some of the Valley Medical Center Board of Commissioners’ ethics. I was dismayed in 2006 with the annexation fiasco and began following the news concerning Valley Medical Center.
Let me first say that I work full-time, live in a working-class neighborhood (no upscale residence for me, no favored consumer status), and my kids go to public school. And you don’t need to worry that you pay for my healthcare. I also pay a separate health insurance premium through my work, plus office deductibles, just like most people do. I also don’t mind paying taxes for schools and emergency services used as common resources by the community.
Thumbs up to the proposed merger of Fire Districts 44 and 17, if for no other reason than it just makes sense. And that might be the best reason of all.
The third week in May is blooming with colors, and now is the time to feed and weed.
The Tahoma School District’s Russell Ridge Center is accepting pre-registration for the 2008-09 school year.
Corner of Love, a Christian non-profit outreach – birthed out of Shepherd of the Valley Lutheran Church – that is supported by local residents and churches, has something to celebrate.
SPENCER BALDWIN
The game swung back and forth all night. But just when the Kentwood Conquerors needed it to swing back their way, it didn’t.
Catch him if you can