Police blotter for Covington and Maple Valley for June 11-19
Maple Valley Rotary recently handed out scholarships to a group of Tahoma High seniors, including one graduate who received a new scholarship named for a former Rotarian.
Organizers, vendors and customers kick off third season of Maple Valley Farmers Market.
The Maple Valley Police Department bicycle safety rodeo brought out the kids and the rain Saturday, June 18, at Glacier Park Elementary School.
It’s a small world for a pair of Kentlake High graduates.
Periodically we find ourselves experiencing moments that make us say, “It’s a small Navy.”
A group from Mattson Middle School staff members and students spent a morning collecting litter that has accumulated along the side 164th Street. Armed with hard hats, gloves, safety vests and garbage bags, the team collected rubbish thrown out of car windows and dropped by pedestrians. Flat tires, pop bottles, fast food wrappers and countless cigarette butts were picked up and disposed of properly.
The city of Maple Valley’s annual asphalt overlay program is scheduled to get underway June 21 through June 23 depending on weather conditions.
The deadly traffic crashes peaking for teens during the summer months of June, July and August, according to a release from AAA, a motor club.
River-spanning logs are relocated out of harm’s way, but site still must be evaluated for additional hazards.
This weekend marks the opening of the third season of the Maple Valley Farmers Market at Rock Creek Elementary.
As summer approaches local fire departments want to remind residents to be careful when grilling outside.
Employees of Windermere Maple Valley spent their Friday morning working in the city as part of the company’s Community Service Day
I have a confession.
This past weekend I draped my press pass around my neck and attended two high school graduation ceremonies — Tahoma’s and Kentlake’s — not because I felt obligated to do so for the newspaper but because I wanted to see a bunch of kids from both schools graduate.
Sharing has its upsides, particularly for smaller city governments such as Covington, Maple Valley and Black Diamond.
In recent months all three cities have hammered out agreements to share among themselves in a way they hadn’t before.
Like every other district in the state, Tahoma School District officials have been playing the waiting game, and as a result are just about to wrap up the annual budget.
Photos taken from Maple Valley Days 2011.
Kaitlin Duffy had never won anything in her life.
So when the ninth grader at Tahoma Junior High received an email informing her she had won the “Write a Bill” contest, “I screamed for a while.”
Mary Jane Glaser’s continual volunteer work in the community earned her the Maple Valley Golden Leaf Award from the City Council.
Musicians have a pair of opportunities to get their groove on this summer with the Carly Stowell Foundation.
King County Councilman Reagan Dunn announced today that he will run for state Attorney General in 2012.
Dunn, a former official at the U.S. Justice Department in Washington, D.C. and assistant U.S. attorney in Seattle, is seeking to succeed Rob McKenna, a two-term Republican attorney general who recently announced his campaign for Governor.
