Put Dallas Glenn behind the wheel of a race car and he can probably get to the finish line first.
Proof positive came April 3 at the National Hot Rod Association’s Summit Racing.com Nationals at the The Strip at Las Vegas Motor Speedway.
Kentlake graduate Kayleigh Perkins’ unlimited light hydroplane UL-72 Miss Foster Care caught fire and exploded today during testing trails on Lake Washington at the Stan Sayres Memorial Pits. Perkins was not injured, but had to jump out of the burning hydroplane and swim to shore.
Ground was broken April 14 on Maple Valley’s first major commercial development project since the city incorporated in 1997.
Work will begin in the coming weeks on Maple Valley Town Square, the future home of Fred Meyer, restaurants, shops and a 10,500 square MultiCare facility that will offer a variety of medical services.
MOBILE HOME FIRE: Auburn-Enumclaw Highway. Firefighters arrived at a fully involved mobile home fire on the Auburn-Enumclaw Highway at about 4:30 p.m.
Police blotter for Covington April 14-18.
Opening day of T-ball season in Maple Valley with plenty of swings and smiles | Slide Show
Another ruling has been issued in the legal labyrinth surrounding the YarrowBay master planned developments in Black Diamond, The Villages and Lawson Hills.
The state superior court Judge Cheryl Carey granted a motion to stay or stop the Central Puget Sound Growth Management Hearings Board’s compliance schedule set down for the city.
Anyone interested in learning to speak French is invited to a new French Conversation Group.
The group is open to people of all ages for anyone who wish to get to a point where they can speak fluent French.
There’s still plenty of time to sign up for the Covington-Maple Valley-Black Diamond Relay for Life event set for June 24-25 at Tahoma Junior High.
A King County Sheriff’s deputy shot and killed a 25-year-old man in the parking lot of a Burien apartment complex Sunday, April 17, following a high speed car chase. The man’s address on his car registration is in Covington.
He was shot 8:20 p.m. and died at the scene.
The South Side Dance Force brought poetry to life during performances at the Kent and Covington libraries.
King County Assessor Lloyd Hara is on the road again talking about property values and economic conditions past, present and future.
Since taking office in November 2009 he has made more than 300 presentations to the public explaining and discussing the effects of the Great Recession on the property values around King County.
Minors caught drinking beer at Lake Sawyer Park | Black Diamond Police Blotter
Supports of the Tahoma School District’s construction bond measure were out waving signs in support of the measure Friday near the intersection of S.E. Wax Road and state Route 169.
King County can register to vote in person at the King County Elections office through Monday, April 18 for the April 26 special election.
Former site of QFC in Covington will be the new home of Big Lots as well as a business to be revealed at a later date.
Let’s face it: Most of us consider a piano teacher to be of a certain type.
A kindly, proper, but strict lady. Less often a man. If so, he is a professorial-type perhaps with a rumpled tweed coat.
Not an elementary school teacher with five young children and a baby blue Elton John-like piano.
But then there is Maple Valley resident Rob Darling, a first grade teacher at West Mercer Elementary School.
Darling, 36, is in his third year of teaching elementary school, the last two at West Mercer Elementary School.
The music and games will play on next school year at 28 Kent elementary schools.
After a community uproar over proposed 2011-12 budget cuts to eliminate elementary music and physical education programs, the Kent School Board voted Wednesday night to keep each program and its specialized teachers from the chopping block.
Employment Security Department investigators identified nearly 7,000 people last year who lied, cheated, scammed and schemed in order to collect unemployment benefits.
These claimants collected more than $14 million in unemployment benefits through fraud – about 56 percent more than in 2009.
Walking along Witte Road near the Greater Maple Valley Community Center is that much safer lately as work on road improvements and a roundabout is nearing completion.
According to Dan Mattson, capital projects manager for the city of Maple Valley, sidewalks and landscaping have been installed and the work is “moving along nicely.”
