The duo, Skinny People Kissing, will be performing from 11:15 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 14 at Maple Valley Farmers Market.
The band members are Nick Foster, a Central Washington University graduate from Maple Valley, and Kelsey French, a Central graduate from Poulsbo.
Dennis Tompkins, a certified arborist, will discuss how to check the health and safety of trees and how to prepare for the coming winter storm season. The discussion is at 10 a.m. Aug. 21 at the Master Gardener Demo Garden, Fruitland Avenue and Pioneer Way East, Puyallup, across from the Washington State University Research and Extension Center.
The past spring was unusually cool and moist. Consequently, it was a bad year for diseases on certain kinds of trees such as cherries, flowering plums, dogwoods and other deciduous tree species.
The political playhouse is about to get thinned out following the Tuesday primary election.
Ballots for the mail-only primary election must be postmarked by Tuesday, Aug. 17 and the results will decide what two candidates will line up against each other in races in the 47th and 5th districts.
In a very short window of time two rapes in Covington were reported to the King County Sheriff’s Office. Law enforcement officials view the attacks as fairly unusual for the town of less than 20,000.
According to a news report from the Tacoma News Tribune, John Alan Carter, a suspect in a July 27 rape in Covington, has been arrested in near Florence, Ore.
Hospital beds were a hot topic during a state Department of Health public hearing Aug. 5 in the Kent library.
Bart Eggen, executive director from the Department of Health and Mark Thomas, an analyst with the department, set up the hearing, which opened at noon and lasted nearly five hours.
There have been a couple of breaks in the two rape cases in Covington.
Police Chief Kevin Klason said the King County Sheriff’s Office Special Assault unit has been investigating the two assaults. Covington contracts with the county for police services
ROCKS: Officers were dispatched to a vandalism incident that had just occurred to a woman’s vehicle. The woman said she was driving southbound on 228th Avenue Southeast and at about Southeast 312th Street a large object struck the top of her vehicle. Since this occurred at 1 a.m. there were no other vehicles in the area. The reporting party stopped immediately after hearing the first object hit her vehicle and then was struck by a second object. Through investigation of the area two large rocks were located. The woman was provided a case number and continued to her destination.
UNRULY PANHANDLER: 17400 block of Southeast 270th Place. A man was panhandling in the Walmart parking lot. If they didn’t give him money he would “swear and cuss at them.”
With just a week left until primary ballots are due, candidates for the 31st District State Senate seat are making their final push for votes.
Voters have plenty of choices this year, with two candidates on each side of the aisle tossing their hats in the ring for a shot at representing the area in Olympia.
Mountain Vineyard Christian Fellowship announced Andy Park and his band will be at Mountain Vineyard at 9:45 a.m. Sunday, Aug. 8, at Cedar Heights Middle School, 19640 S.E. 272nd Street, in Covington.
Park is a longtime Vineyard worship leader who now lives in Canada with his family. He began recording with Vineyard Music Group in the late 1980s.
Who would have guessed that nutrition labels could serve as a political football. We are talking about the fine print on the backside of the bags, boxes and cans our food comes in.
Work on the Witte Road roundabout has begun with tree clearing on the south side of the road this week.
The road is limited to one lane near the intersection of Southeast 248th near the library where the crew is clearing for the roundabout.
Auditions are scheduled for 3-7 p.m. Aug. 25, 26, and 30 and 10 a.m. to noon Sept. 1 at Shepherd of the Valley Lutheran Church, 23855 S.E. 216th St. Maple Valley. There is a $10 fee for auditions.
Students should prepare a two minute solo piece that reflects their playing abilities and will be expected to sight read. Students wishing to audition for debut orchestra may prepare a one minute solo or an excerpt from a band or orchestra book.
It’s back-to-school time, and although you might already have paper and pencils, put immunizations on your shopping list to make sure your kids are protected as they head to class.
Farmers are the heart and soul of any farmers market, and they are, indeed, the very core of the Maple Valley Farmers Market.
Between Aug. 12 and September 6 extra driving under the influence or DUI patrols will travel King County roadways in search of impaired drivers.
This Drive Hammered, Get Nailed will be the largest summer DUI enforcement campaign ever with 172 agencies participating throughout the state including officers from Covington, Maple Valley and Black Diamond.
Maple Valley Food Bank and Emergency Services is now collecting new school supplies. Flyers and collection barrels are out in the community. You can brighten a child’s back-to-school experience by simply picking up a flyer, purchasing supplies and returning them to a collection site by Aug. 22.
Tahoma High School math students scored high at the at the Mu Alpha Theta (MATH) National Convention in Washington D.C. July 25-30.
Tahoma was represented by nine students. There were 46 schools from the United States and Korea with 570 students competing for national math awards in 60 categories.
