The Pacific Science Center made a trip to Covington last Friday. The center’s science on wheels program stopped at Jenkins Creek Elementary to provide students with interactive experiences that were part of the “space odyssey” theme
The Black Diamond Farmers Market is accepting vendor applications for the 2015 season
The commission is in the middle of drafting recommendations to give to the City Council regarding what to do with two city-owned properties, Henry’s Switch and the 216th/276th Street parcels. A workshop was held last week to let the public voice their opinions about what they think should happen to those two properties
The Kent Regional Fire Authority continues to take steps to be more environmentally friendly and leave less of a carbon footprint with the lease of two all-electric powered cars
Students at Mill Creek Middle School are eager to share the wonders of the brain as part of Brain Awareness Week, March 16 to 22
The Covington City Council will a hold a public hearing on a proposed ordinance which extends interim zoning regulations for the production, processing, and retailing of recreational marijuana
A shortage of part-time and substitute employees has left the Tahoma School District seeking to fill quite a few openings
County Council approves placing levy lid lift on April 28 special election ballot
Expect temporary water discharge during construction, which is not to exceed 10,000 gallons per minute
Upcoming productions by Kentwood, Tahoma and Kentlake
Volunteers are needed to staff a committee that will recommend names for Tahoma’s two new middle schools, which open to grades 6-8 in the 2017-18 school year
Tanya Mroczek-Amador and her husband, Nelson Amador, founders and directors of the Corner of Love mission in Maple Valley, had more than $6,000 of medications and about $1,350 of personal items stolen from their car in a parking lot at a South Florida hotel
All subjects in the police blotter are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
The Maple Valley Planning Commission will hold their regular meeting at 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday, March 4
Dace’s Rock ‘n’ More Music Academy is competing in Hopelink’s Can Madness. The first weigh-in will be Friday, March 6
The Washington Department of Ecology delivered the final oil transportation study to state legislators outlining key recommendations to improve public safety in response to the rapid increase of oil transportation through Washington.
The Metropolitan King County today gave its unanimous approval to the appointment of David Pilgrim to the King County Landmarks Commission, representing local heritage organizations, Position No. 2
Becomes first Public Defender since position was created by voters
Approved an ordinance providing for the submission to voters in April a proposition authorizing a property tax levy for the capitol transition and financing cost for the Puget Sound emergency radio network project (Ordinance 2015-0016).
The Tahoma High School team that won this year’s “We the People: The citizen and Constitution” statewide competition came to the state Capitol last week as guests of Sen. Mark Mullet, D-Issaquah, and Sen. Joe Fain, R-Auburn
