Meridian Elementary is offering a free recycling event. Donations are always welcome and benefit the PTSA – proceeds from the recycled materials benefit local charities.
I was looking forward to my kids going back to school so I could sit down and concentrate on some of my career goals. Contrary to popular belief, being a stay-at-home mom is not a career – it was a choice – but the hours are bad, the pay is low, and it has no career growth potential, so I really need a backup plan. It’s actually the kind of job you work yourself out of, although it never really ends.
Initiative activist Tim Eyman filed five measures, dealing with $30 car tabs, traffic cameras, supermajority for taxes, the initiative process and creation of an office of inspector general to investigate fraud.
By not printing full ballot measure text in Voters Pamphlet would save hundreds of thousands of dollars annually.
More drivers are returning to the State Route 520 floating bridge, a week after tolls began. Data compiled Thursday, Jan. 5, shows 59,200 toll transactions, the highest number since tolling began.
Two King County brothers were sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Tacoma for their roles in a marijuana production and distribution conspiracy announced U.S. Attorney Jenny A. Durkan.
State Rep Glenn Anderson, R-Fall City, today announced his candidacy for Lieutenant Governor in the November 2012 elections.
Mountain View Fire and Rescue Report for Dec. 27 – Jan. 2
Students from Kent and Maple Valley made the 2011 Scholastic Honor Roll Fall term at Oregon State University.
Maple Valley Fire and Life Safety is offering an adult, child and infant CPR/AED class at 6 p.m. on Jan. 30.
After fighting a house fire on Jan 2., Maple Valley firefighters returned to their stations to find a warm meal cooked by the Soup Ladies.
Covington is ready for the 2012 legislative session.
In early November the City Council adopted a legislative agenda that tackled a range of issues from transportation to state-shared revenues to commuter and passenger rail to unfunded mandates to economic development funding.
The city of Maple Valley is currently working on plans to replace the Lake Wilderness Dock, according to Parks and Recreation Director Greg Brown.
Basketball players from Rainier Christian High School assisted the Kent Food Bank over Christmas Break with their annual toy distribution.
In King County, 960 motorists were stopped and arrested for driving under the influence (DUI).
The Maple Valley City Council selected Councilmember Bill Allison as its new mayor at its Jan. 3 meeting.
Drivers should anticipate nightly detours this week on State Route 18 between Weyerhaeuser Way South and Interstate 5 as crews close all lanes to remove brackets and forms used build new concrete flyover ramps.
Maple Valley Fire and Life Safety Report Dec. 26 – Jan. 1
Covington has found a solution for code enforcement: Brian Bykonen.
Starting in February King County Metro will replace Route 149, which serves Maple Valley and Black Diamond, with DART 907.
