The Tahoma track and field team is a month into the season and the medals are piling up.
Leading the way for the Bears in field events is senior Derek Eager. According to the Athletic.net Web site, Eager is ranked No. 1 in the nation throwing the 800-gram javelin. He pegged 218 feet, 7 inches at the Kent Invitational March 27, giving him the top distance in the country.
Tension between the Valley Medical Center Board of Commissioners has been increasing at the past few meetings and it reached a boiling point Monday.
The acrimony centered on a swirl of conflict of interest questions surrounding the construction of a free standing emergency department in Covington and audio taping commission meetings.
Maple Valley is looking for a few good women and men to form a golf course task force.
The clock is ticking on a number of issues surrounding the Lake Wilderness Golf Course that will need to be settled, according to city officials.
About 65,000 ballots will be sent to active registered voters in three districts on Wednesday for the upcoming special election.
In King County, elections are conducted by mail and ballots are sent to registered voters 20 days before each election in which they are eligible to vote.
Electricity is there to help brew your morning coffee, operate your computer, heat your home and run your television. We use electricity so often that we seldom think about the dangers.
Take a moment to think about how often you depend upon electricity and answer the following questions. Every question you answer with “no” is an opportunity for you to make your home a safer place to live.
Covington and Maple Valley police blotter for the week of March 29-April 2.
A 36-year-old Kent woman died in a rollover accident at 7:30 p.m. today, April 5, on state Route 167 south of 277th.
According to a report from the Washington State Patrol, the woman was traveling southbound on SR 167 when she swerved into the HOV lane to avoid slowing traffic.
We would like to extend our sincere appreciation and thanks to all of the businesses and individuals that donated to the Valley Girls and Guys fundraising event on March 19 at Green River Community College. We raised a total of $45,752, which is $15,000 more than last year. The evening would not have been such a success without the generous contributions from sponsors and donors.
A 42-year-old Black Diamond resident, Christopher Wise, has been charged with two counts of domestic violence manslaughter in the 2009 death of his 88-year-old mother, Ruby Wise.
The King County Prosecutor charged Christopher Wise with first degree manslaughter, domestic violence and second degree manslaughter, domestic violence.
MultiCare Health System is planning a town hall meeting for residents of south King County from 6 to 8 p.m. Wednesday, April 14 at Cedar Heights Middle School, 19640 SE 272nd St. in Covington.
MultiCare announced plans to build a 58-bed hospital in Covington and also will add a 24-hour emergency department adjacent to the existing MultiCare Covington Clinic.
The mother of a 15-year-old girl in Black Diamond called Mountain View Fire and Rescue at about 3:30 p.m. March 23 because her daughter’s hair became tangled in a fan. The girl was trying to dry her hair quickly. The fire department was call to disassemble the fan to remove the girl’s hair. Engine 98 arrived on location, safely removed her hair that was tightly woven around the shaft of the fan. The girl did not receive any injuries from this incident.
The mother was going to drive the girl and fan to the fire department. She was told to call 911 and report it was not an emergency and have the firefighters come to her house for an aid service call.
Maple Valley Fire and Life Safety invites the community to participate in the statewide earthquake drill from 9:45 to 10 a.m. April 21. The fire department encourage everyone to increase their knowledge and awareness of proper safety measures to follow before, during and after a disaster.
The labor dispute involving garbage truck drivers represented by Teamsters Local 174 has reached a crossroads and the resolution is unclear.
The drivers provide service to King and Snohomish counties including Maple Valley, Covington, Black Diamond and the surrounding area.
The union has been negotiating exclusively with the Houston-based Waste Management since March 31.
A pair of committees get to work this month to create educational specifications that will guide remodeling and expansion of Tahoma High School and Tahoma Junior High.
The purpose is to create a vision for how those schools could look in the future.
The Greater Maple Valley Area Council regular monthly meeting is scheduled for 7-9:30 p.m. Monday, April 5 at King County Sheriff’s Precinct 3 at the northeast corner southeast 231st Street and state Route 169.
The 2009 Maple Valley Fire and Life Safety annual awards banquet was Saturday, March 27 at Lake Wilderness Golf Course.
Kent School District Board President Debbie Straus and Superintendent Edward Lee Vargas are asking the district community to share their input regarding budget reduction options for the 2010-2011 school year.
Opening day for the second season of the Maple Valley Farmers’ Market is less than three months away and planning is going well, according to Victoria Jonas, who is president of the market’s Board of Directors, the manager of the market and a member of the City Council.
“Things are going well for us,” Jonas said via e-mail. “Vendors signing up, special events calendar filling up, we are going to have our first annual Chili Cook-Off on (Sept. 11).”
Covington Finance Director Rob Hendrickson presented the 2009 fourth quarter annual report with a dose of economic forecasting at the March 23 City Council meeting.
The numbers were much like the economy – some good and some bad.
Hendrickson noted it “looks like the state has turned the corner on the recession.”
A single penny can buy a pencil while 2,000 can pay for a year at a school in Pakistan or Afghanistan.
And that’s just what students from Rock Creek Elementary School were hoping for when they participated in the Pennies for Peace campaign from January through March.
