School is out and Maple Valley Food Bank and Emergency Services staff and volunteers are busy getting ready for back to school.
The Covington Days Parade will begin at 10 a.m. on Saturday, July 21 and will affect traffic flow on Kent-Kangley and surrounding roads.
Sometimes the best way to avoid a traffic jam is to fly over it. That’s exactly what drivers will do in Federal Way once two new elevated ramps open between Interstate 5 and State Route 18. The first flyover ramp will open this afternoon, July 16, and the second ramp will open Monday, July 23.
The Black Library will host a DIY Angry Birds Live at 2 p.m. on Tuesday, July 31.
The Black Diamond Librar will host a Dream a Dream Concert at 10:30 a.m. on Monday, July 30.
Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Myles A. Ortiz, a 2012 graduate of Kentlake High School and Black Diamond resident, was recently was promoted to his current rank while with Marine Wing Headquarters Squadron One, 1st Marine Aircraft Wing, Okinawa, Japan.
Black Diamond will participate in the Chief for a Day event on Thursday, Aug. 16 in partnership with 26 Washington State law enforcement agencies and the Washington State Criminal Justice Training Commission.
For Clarification Purpose: No Business or Household Hazardous Waste will be accepted at the combined City Business Recycling Collection Event on Wednesday, July 18, 2012 At Cedar Heights Middle School, 19640 SE 272ND St., Covington, WA. 98042.
The Side Project performed at Lake Wilderness July 11 in the Maple Valley Parks and Recreation Department’s Music in the Park series.
Our Elections Division has counted the signatures for Tim Eyman’s latest initiative, I-1185.
A Canadian helicopter pilot who flew loads of drugs into the U.S. from Canada for organized criminal groups pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court in Seattle, just hours before he was to go on trial. Henry Rosenau, 61, of Armstrong, British Columbia, Canada pleaded guilty to conspiracy to import marijuana.
Maple Valley Fire and Rescue received the first call on a three alarm house fire at about 8:14 p.m.
Allissa Gustafson from Covington has been chosen as a finalist in the National America Miss Washington Pageant which will be held Aug. 10-12 at the Hotel Murano in Tacoma.
Nightly work on Witte Road will continue starting July 16 and ending on Friday, July 20.
The Covington City Council passed an ordinance at their July 10 meeting approving a petition to vacate approximately 80 feet of the southeasterly portion of 176th Place Southeast, adjacent to Southeast Wax Road.
The Covington City Council passed a ordinance at their meeting July 10.
The Black Diamond Library will host “The Dreaming Tree Play” at 10:30 a.m. on Thursday, July 26.
The Maple Valley Farmers Market will have games and prizes, face-painting and Donut Art sponsored by George’s Bakery for kids this Saturday, July 14. The Farmers Market will also have their annual scavenger hunt.
Agda Burchard left Southern California nearly two decades ago to earn her teaching credentials at the University of Washington.
In her story titled “The Numbers Game,” published in “Chicken Soup for the Soul: Boost Your Brain Power,” Maple Valley writer Diana Savage details the various methods she employs in order to effectively work with math, sometimes to comedic effect.
