The King County Sheriff’s Office has launched online reporting for a variety of crimes, suspicious circumstances and traffic complaints.
The service is available to citizens living in unincorporated King County, as well as the 12 communities that contract for police services from the Sheriff’s Office. That’s over 500,000 people.
Women who can’t lose weight quickly enough can add yet another tool to the ever-growing arsenal of fad diets. Here’s…
Ellery Akers is a California poet who here brings all of us under a banner with one simple word on it.
The facts are clear and simple. According to a study recently published in “Health Beat,” the newsletter of the Harvard Medical School, March 1 edition five lifestyle habits are considered responsible for heart disease and many other widespread illnesses that plague us today. They are smoking, lack of sufficient physical activity, weight problems, poor eating habits and excessive alcohol consumption.
Mitch Fund could have been a mathematician or a physicist. Ultimately he realized he was a musician.
But he’s not the kind of musician — his first instrument is drums but he plays piano, as well — who wants to get up on arena stages night after night and play for tens of thousands of people.
Fund, 20, is the kind of musician who wants to teach the next generation while continuing to be a student of his craft.
I have forgotten how to have fun. It’s rather pathetic, but I realized the other day I struggle to have fun in my every day life. I was contemplating my inability to have fun and thinking of all the times I’ve had fun: partying in my 20’s, dating, getting married, delighting in my little kids, watching them discover the world. It was somewhere in the “delighting in my little kids” when I think I stopped having fun.
Peggy Shumaker lives in Alaska, but she gets around the world. Here she takes us with her on a ninety-foot dive into colorful mid-Pacific waters
Western Washington barbershop quartet singing competition begins with the semi finals at 7-10 p.m. Friday, March 18 at the Green River Community College, Lindbloom Student Center. 12401 SE 320th S, Auburn.
This Sunday hundreds of mountain bikers will descend on Real Life Church’s property on the edge of Black Diamond.
It is an event that is part of BuDu Racing’s Singletrack Cycles West Side mountain bike series. BuDu has run the series for seven years, explained Deanna Muller, who is an event manager for the organization that coordinates the series.
Tahoma Drama presents Disney’s “My Son Pinocchio: Gepetto’s Musical Tale” starting March 11 at the Tahoma Middle School Auditorium.
Directed by Earlene DeLeon, the show involves more than 80 students in sixth through ninth grade, who have put in hours of time rehearsing after auditions in November.
A friend saw a refrigerator magnet that read, PARENTING: THE FIRST 40 YEARS ARE THE HARDEST. And lots of parents, thinking their children have moved on, discover one day that those children are back. Here Marilyn L. Taylor, Poet Laureate of Wisconsin, writes of that.
The Consumer Price Index (CPI) for all foods is projected to increase this year by 2 to 3 percent. If that doesn’t sound particularly alarming to you, consider this: While the average costs for processed foods continue to remain relatively stable, fresh food items, like meat, dairy products, eggs, vegetables and fruits are all much more expensive now than they were a year ago.
Beatrice Wambui may be young, but she’s got big plans.
At just 16, the Kentlake High School student already has a national leadership law forum under her belt, and she’s continuing her studies in earnest, in hopes of pursuing a law degree.
Mark Fisher is a mountain climber.
He’s also a teacher, a father of three, a husband and associate pastor at Maple Valley Presbyterian Church.
And he’s found a way to bring all those things together with his love of climbing mountains.
Community singers, ages 12 through adult, are invited to join the Maple Valley Youth Symphony Orchestra at the fourth annual community choir concert.
I love poems that celebrate families, and here’s a fine one by Joyce Sutphen of Minnesota, a poet who has written dozens of poems I’d like to publish in this column if there only were weeks enough for all of them.
Calling all solo singers ages 7 to 15 to audition for the 2011 Maple Valley Idol, Jr. competition.
A recently released study on diet sodas suggests that the no-cal or low-cal versions may be kinder to your waistline but bad for your heart and even your head.
Singer-songwriter Rebecca Cohen featured act at Maple Valley Creative Arts Council ‘Open Mic’
