Tahoma School District officials will keep a close eye on spending this year, but will not have to lay off any staff.
In 2009 the Tahoma Board of Directors had to approve a budget with spending and staff reductions as a result of sharp reductions in state funding, according to information provided by district spokesman Kevin Patterson.
Imagine a town center in Covington. What should be there and how should it look?
The city’s downtown and town center is what the City Council will be imagining for the next several weeks as the members consider the zoning and design plan for the area.
Ball fields took a step forward Monday at the Maple Valley City Council meeting, but not unanimously.
The council voted 5-1 to approve a resolution adopting the Summit Park and ball fields master plan after considerable discussion about the Bonneville Power Administration 375-foot wide easement running diagonally across the park with 230 kilovolt power lines.
State Rep. Geoff Simpson is facing a high-wall of legal problems in his personal life as he attempts to mount another campaign for his legislative seat in his public life.
The legals troubles for Simpson became a criminal issue when the Seattle City Attorney’s office filed charges against him for gross misdemeanor assault, stemming from an alleged domestic violence incident that occurred at Seattle Children’s Hospital May 22.
OBSCENE PICTURE MESSAGES: 23500 block of Southeast 242nd Place. A 14-year-old girl received photos of an unknown male’s genitals on her cell phone.
Lake Wilderness will be treated with the aquatic herbicide Aquathol (active ingredient dipotassium salt of endothall) and Reward (active ingredient Diquat dibromide) within the next 10 to 21 days.
The Western Washington Family Forest Owners Field Day will be in King County for the first time this year.
The field day is scheduled for 7:30 a.m. Saturday, July 31 at Tahoma Junior High School, 25600 Summit Landsburg Rd, Ravensdale. Presentations begin at 8:30 a.m. and continue to 4 p.m.
Maple Valley Fire and Life Safety responded to seven fire calls between July 5-11. There was one cooking fire, one brush fire, two beauty bark fires and three residential structure fires.
Maple Valley officials and Goodfellow Bros will break ground on the intersection improvement at Witte Road and Southeast 248th Street at 5:15 p.m., Monday, July 19.
Goodfellow Bros are a Maple Valley contractor that was awarded the bid in June to do the work on the project which includes, according the city’s Public Works Director Steve Clark, building a roundabout and a number of other intersection and street improvements.
The city of Maple Valley’s Kids Festival is scheduled for 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, July 17.
This year there is even more to do than ever before. All children from toddler to 11 will find free activities at the festival this year. Good food (burgers and hotdogs), entertainment, face painting, crafts, the candy cannon, model airplanes, inflatable toys and interactive exhibits.
Mark Niver, 60, a top alcohol dragster from Phoenix, Ariz., died Sunday, July 11, at Pacific Raceways after his race car crashed in the shutdown area during the final elimination rounds at the 23rd Annual Northwest Nationals, according to the National Hot Rod Association’s website.
The King County Sheriff’s office reported a man died in a accident driving a dragster at Pacific Raceways this today, July 11.
Over the past five years, fire service organizations in Washington state have reported more than 1,300 fires caused by cigarettes in the wildland or cultivated vegetation. You may recall, a discarded cigarette ignited a brush fire in the median of Interstate 5 near Des Moines last July, blocking traffic and causing a 3 to 4 mile back up in each direction.
Kent’s Martin “Mitch” Mitchell is pedaling to Portland during the Seattle to Portland Bicycle Classic July 17-18.
Mitchell is collecting jars of peanut butter as a way to motivate himself to take on the 200-mile marathon ride.
The Seattle City Attorney’s office filed charges against State Rep. Geoff Simpson, D-Covington today, July 8, for gross misdemeanor assault in connection with a domestic violence incident that occurred May 22 at Seattle Children’s Hospital.
The Cruzin’ Passport program has a pair of fun events coming up for kids attending elementary schools in the Kent School District, including youngsters who attend school in Covington.
First is the Cruzin Cooking Class at Covington Multicare at 10am on July 16 for children ages 7-12.
ASSAULT:31000 block of 230th Place Southeast. At 7:30 a.m. officers were dispatched to a domestic dispute. Upon arrival the male said his girlfriend attacked him and had torn his shirt off. She had also attempted to prevent him from calling 911 several times. The female was cited for assault fourth degree domestic violence and interfering with reporting domestic violence. She was booked into Buckley jail.
Parades, fun runs, watermelon eating contests, food and art are on tap next weekend, July 16-18, during the annual Covington Days Festival.
Car crashes are the leading cause of death for children younger than 14 and the number of car crashes increase during the summer months – a time medical professionals call “trauma season.”
Glacier Park Elementary is getting a new roof this summer.
While Tahoma School District officials have a laundry list of capital improvement projects they wish to tackle someday if a construction bond is passed in the near future — the next two years — the roof at Glacier Park couldn’t wait.
