There will be a ribbon cutting ceremony for Bounce It Up from 5-6:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 5 at the Diamond Square in Black Diamond.
In today’s dog-eat-dog world, change is constant and accelerating. Other countries are stealing our factories and jobs and are hungry for more. That is the new reality.
New members of the Greater Maple Valley Black Diamond Chamber of Commerce
Looking at the opinion polls, it’s easy to be depressed these days. Three out of four likely voters say America’s on the wrong track, consumer confidence has tanked, investors are sitting on the sidelines and job growth has stalled.
A steel beam from the World Trade Center New York’s 9/11 aftermath will be on display at this week’s World Trade Center Tacoma Globe Awards.
President Obama and the newly appointed Congressional federal debt reduction committee will need to look under every rock to find ways to save money and do things differently. Now, they’re getting some help from the private sector.
King County Executive Dow Constantine has named 21 finalists in seven categories for the first annual King County Executive’s Small Business Awards.
Multi-Service Center is seeking internship sites in area businesses and organizations for adults needing current on-the-job experience to prepare them for re-entry into the workforce.
At the same time President Obama and Congress were locked in combat over raising the nation’s debt ceiling, leaders of state manufacturing associations from across America were meeting right here in Washington.
Americans live in an idealistic world where, no matter what happens, we’ll still be able to go home at night and switch on the lights or pull into a filling station and gas up the family SUV.
The ballots for the “Best of Covington/Maple Valley/Black Diamond will be in the Friday, July 8 edition and the July 15, 22 and 29th editions
Later this month, state legislators will begin discussions about designing and implementing a health-care exchange.
If experience is a guide — and it is — Washington lawmakers should tread very carefully because recent events have shown how perilous such efforts can be.
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.
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.
The RE/MAX Leading Edge real estate business celebrated their grand opening May 19 in Black Diamond.
By 2025, the TransAlta energy facility in Centralia must replace coal with natural gas to generate electricity, but Washington has no gas to offer. Fortunately, we have neighbors with an abundance of gas — natural gas, that is — to ship to us.
State lawmakers in Olympia received a much-needed boost recently in the form of $320 million in new tax revenue, the result of a new tax amnesty program. The amnesty, first proposed in 2009 by State Auditor Brian Sonntag, was vigorously championed by the Association of Washington Business as a way to settle disputed tax assessments.
At the corner of 3rd Avenue and Lawrence Street in Black Diamond, the small Italian Fresh Pizza building has the veneer of a drive-by eating establishment.
A daily special of $5.99 for a 14 inch cheese or pepperoni pizza gives the impression that quality is sacrificed for speediness, a place for people on-the-go.
With a new device called Square, businesses can now have their customers make credit card purchases on iPhones or Android devices.
The technology is utilized by people like 25-year-old Levi Anderson, who runs Boyrista, a coffee stand he started two years ago.
As the price of gas passes $4 on its way to $5 a gallon, the finger pointing in Washington, D.C. has reached a frenzy as politicians rush to place blame. “Wall Street profiteers!” “Speculators!” “Big Oil!”