Kent School District is encouraging all eighth-grade students who are eligible to sign up for the College Bound Scholarship by the deadline on June 30.
The Maple Valley Farmers Market will open at 9 a.m. on Saturday, June 16 at Rock Creek Elementary.
Recreational boating fatalities last year jumped to their highest levels since 1998 and boating under the influence (BUI) was the leading contributing factor, according to the U.S. Coast Guard’s report, 2011 Recreational Boating Statistics.
Maple Valley Rotary is proud to present the students of the month from Tahoma High School.
The majority of children who are removed from their homes because of abuse or neglect and placed into foster care are able to return safely to their families. King County Family Reunification Day, will be held June 29 from 12:00 – 1:00 p.m. at Seattle’s Pacific Science Center (with reception to follow), celebrates the efforts made by families to safely bring children back home after they have been in foster care.
Preserve Marriage Washington, foes of Washington’s new law authorizing civil marriage for same-sex couples, today submitted an estimated 232,000 petition signatures, virtually assuring a public vote this fall on whether to uphold or overturn the marriage measure, Senate Bill 6239. Sponsors planned to bring in at least 9,000 more signatures by day’s end.
King County leaders joined today with the city of Sammamish to dedicate a new command center for the King County Sheriff inside Sammamish City Hall, and to launch a new model for service delivery that will increase patrol time on the streets.
Families, friends as well as faculty came together Saturday afternoon at ShoWare Center in Kent to celebrate the class of 2012’s graduation from Kentlake High.
Kentwood High Principal Doug Hostetter had much to brag about Saturday afternoon at ShoWare Center in Kent during the graduation ceremony of the class of 2012, the 30th commencement exercises in the school’s history.
Maple Valley residents braved the rainy weather to attend Maple Valley Days on Friday, June 8 at Lake Wilderness Park.
King County joined with federal, state, and local agencies this week to test its capacity to respond to and recover from a major earthquake.
Regional Animal Services of King County (RASKC) and the Seattle Animal Shelter are teaming up to find homes for a number of Chihuahuas. The dogs were seized in October after investigators found them living in deplorable conditions in a home in Issaquah. The dogs have been in RASKC custody since then, and were living in foster homes pending the outcome of the case.
Rep. Jay Rodne is inviting local residents in the 5th District to participate in his telephone town hall meeting Tuesday, June 19.
King County Sheriff’s deputies are currently looking for a suspect involved in the vandalism of a patrol car near Kent.
The Wastemobile will be in the parking lot of the Fred Meyer store, 16735 SE 272nd St. in Covington, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. each day.
The city of Maple Valley will sponsor a pedestrian and bicycle improvement community workshop 6-8 p.m. on Wednesday, June 27 at the Lake Wilderness Lodge.
STAR 101.5 surprised Glacier Park Elementary teacher Paula Emery with the STAR 101.5 Teacher of the Week award Thursday.
Mountain View Fire and Rescue – Black Diamond Fire Department REport May 29- June 4
Surprise parties are fun and sometimes tricky to pull off.
Yet, the Maple Valley City Council pulled a big surprise off May 29 when it presented the 2012 Golden Maple Leaf award to Chuck Hardaway.
If bigger and better was what Relay for Life organizers hoped for this past weekend then they got their wish and then some.
