The Greater Maple Valley Unincorporated Area Council regular monthly meeting is scheduled for 7-9:30 p.m. Monday, at the Maple Valley Fire Station on the Northeast corner of intersection of Southeast 231st Street and State Route169 across from the sheriff’s precinct No. 3.
The annual polar bear plunge into Lake Sawyer was another happily cold event organized by Ted Strand.
Ron Olness photographed the polar bear plunge into Lake Sawyer on New Year’s Day Sunday.
Four people were shot at a house party in the 6200 block of S 117 Place in the early morning hours of New Year’s Day. Deputies went to the residence after receiving a 911 call and discovered three men and one woman had been shot.
The holiday break ends tomorrow with Central Puget Sound drivers headed back to work and school. Tuesday’s more typical commute will also start the long process of traffic resettling into a new normal that includes state Route 520 tolling.
At 10:25 p.m. units from the Kent and Maple Valley Fire Departments responded to a report of a possible house fire in the 18800 block of SE 269 Street.
Washington State Patrol Troopers across the state arrested 161 drivers suspected of being impaired by drugs or alcohol over the recent Christmas holiday weekend. That’s down from 194 arrests during the same period in 2010 and does not include arrests made by local sheriff’s deputies or city police officers.
Capt. Kyle Ohashi from the Kent Fire Department is reporting firefighters are on location of a commercial fire that is under control.
Maple Valley City Council meeting set for 7 p.m. Tuesday at Lake Wilderness Lodge
Free recycling will no longer be offered at the Cedar Falls, Enumclaw, Houghton, Renton, and Shoreline facilities. Services will remain the same at Skykomish, Snoqualmie Pass, and Vashon.
The second morning of tolling on the State Route 520 bridge Friday went much like the first – smooth sailing. Traffic was even lighter this morning than the first day of tolling and alternate routes Interstate-90 and SR 522 experienced no travel delays.
UP2U Dog Rescue of Covington has joined other animal welfare organizations in the area that list their homeless pets on Petfinder.com, the oldest and largest database of adoptable animals on
the Internet.
Oywak just returned from the Republic of South Sudan. He is a manager for the Sudan Microfinance Institution (SUMI) stationed in South Sudan and he works there for six months every year.
Oywak, who now lives in Covington, travelled by foot, train and plane to many places including Egypt, Italy and Iraq. He arrived in Washington state in 1998.
Prosecutors and several state lawmakers want longer sentence ranges in vehicular homicide and vehicular assault cases.
The King County Flood Warning Center has issued a Phase II flood alert for the Green River, where controlled water releases from a dam could result in very minor flooding along portions of the river without levees upstream of Auburn. The Flood Warning Center opened at 4 p.m. on Thursday, Dec. 29, to closely monitor conditions.
It’s been years and millions of dollars in the making, but tolls on State Route 520 began Thursday morning.
The King County Sheriff’s Office has started to move in to its new satellite precinct office in Covington.
It has been a busy year here at the Covington-Maple Valley-Black Diamond Reporter.
There have been plenty of stories to keep the editorial staff on its toes ranging from uplifting to puzzling to triumphant to distressing.
Here we recap the 10 biggest stories of the year at the Reporter with the list coming in no particular order.
The State Court of Appeals sent out a decision Tuesday reversing a ruling from the Central Puget Sound Growth Management Hearings concerning the two YarrowBay master planned developments, The Villages and Lawson Hills.
Before he was even sworn into the office, soon-to-be council member Sean Kelly already learned a vital lesson about politics.
“It’s hard to please everybody,” he said. “You do the best you can and make sound decisions that people can discuss.”
