The Covington Days Festival Committee is scheduled to meet at 1:30 p.m. this Friday at Covington City Hall.
RAISING UP KINDERGARTNERS
Drowning deaths in Washington have declined steadily the past 20 years but still happen more often than the national rate, according to the state Department of Health.
Thumbs up to the organizers behind April Pools Day, an an annual, statewide activity that will be marked locally at Covington Aquatic Center today.
He lied to us.
Fill those indoor flats, seed trays, egg cartons and small plastic pots, because this is the week to start vegetable seeds indoors for setting out later.
Stay at Home Fitness, operated by Miki Halvorson and Kelley Terwillegar, offers personal training for individuals and groups in the privacy of their clients’ homes in the Covington and Maple Valley areas. In addition to individual sessions, a co-op group (for women to bring their children to a host home for a one-hour workout), family exercising and “buddy” sessions are offered.
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King County’s educational booth will be among the attractions at the IKEA Environmental Fair today and tomorrow from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the store in Renton.
Rotary honors two Kentlake High math/science students
Maple Valley Pony, a youth baseball organization, is organizing a food drive for food banks serving Maple Valley, Covington, Black Diamond, Ravendsale and Hobart.
For the boys on the Tahoma High soccer team, it’s not so much a matter of wanting to turn back the clock.
The Kentwood fastpitch team needed a bounce-back win Tuesday afternoon.
BREANNE BILBREY
When the girls tennis season started a month ago, the Tahoma Bears barely registered even a blip on the radar screen of most coaches.
Tahoma’s Thomas Hammett thought his coach was joking.
Gov. Christine Gregoire launched her re-election campaign April 7 in south King County, a few feet from where she once sat after school while her single mother cooked flapjacks and flipped burgers.
Gubernatorial candidate Dino Rossi would push for an eight-lane bridge across Lake Washington, not impose tolls until the bridge is completed and add lanes to Interstate 405 between Bellevue and the Maple Valley Highway.