The Covington City Council stayed on the steady course Tuesday by re-electing Mayor Margaret Harto and Mayor Pro Tem Jeff Wagner.
Harto was nominated by Wagner and unanimously elected by the members.
Covington’s form of government is council-manger with the mayor and mayor pro tem elected every two years following the November general election. The mayor and mayor pro tem are selected from within the ranks of the council and elected by the members.
A Maple Valley police officer was hit by a car during the investigation of an apparent kidnapping yesterday. The officer was transported to Harborview Medical Center.
Jan. 11
MACED: 16200 block of Southeast 256th Street. While sitting in her car in the parking lot of Foss Market a woman was assaulted by a man who doused her in the face with pepper spray.
Maple Valley Fire and Life Safety and the Maple Valley Community Emergency Response Team or CERT has partnered with King County/Land Resources Division to have sandbags available if flooding was to occur in the Maple Valley area.
According to a press release from the Washington State Patrol, King County holiday enforcement team successfully concluded Sunday with zero fatality collisions on King County highways throughout the 2009 holiday season.
The Green River bridge was restricted to one lane Monday morning and construction crews were on the scene, but the bad dreams of the bridge closing will not be returning according to the state Department of Transportation.
The Maple Valley Rotary will have two guest speakers at the next two Friday meetings.
At the Friday, Jan. 15 meeting, state Rep. Jay Rodne, R, North Bend, will be the featured speaker.
Every school in the Kent School District has events scheduled for the upcoming weeks and months to honor Dr. Martin Luther King in celebration of the holiday that bears his name.
Provide annual maintenance on smoke alarms by vacuuming them and changing the batteries, including those hard wired into the house electrical system.
The Maple Valley City Hall moved into its new location Friday and Saturday at the Dynamic Computer Services Organization/Windermere building at 22017 S.E. Wax Rd. next to the Post Office.
The Kent School District’s annual Technology Expo is scheduled for this month and this year’s event promises to be bigger than ever.
In the past the event bounced from school to school, but this year it is being hosted at the ShoWare Center to allow enough space for a new direction which will combine student projects with local businesses to show how what the kids are learning applies to the real world.
More than 600,000 people in King County have been vaccinated against the H1N1 influenza, but many people in King County do not yet have immunity and remain at risk to a virus that continues to circulate in the community.
You are surrounded by people with runny noses, coughs and sore throats. And now your kids are showing signs of being sick. But what do they have and should you be worried?
The Washington State Parks Commission announced of Flaming Geyser State Park near Black Diamond will be closed to vehicular traffic in most of the park due to electrical failure and public safety concerns stemming from a worn out and outdated system.
Maple Valley Fire and Life Safety is offering a free CPR class on Jan. 25th at 6 p.m. For further…
Maple Valley Fire and Life Safety firefighters and emergency medical personnel responded to a chimney fire at 11:23 a.m. Monday, Dec. 28, in the 21600 block of 290th Avenue Southeast.
Once on the scene, firefighters discovered the blaze had extended into the attic. The firefighters extinguished the fire and one person was transported to a local hospital.
Eric Knudsen knows how to build fences. But the local business owner wants to build something else, community support for Camp Casey, the outdoor-education program for Tahoma School District’s fifth-grade students.
Voters will decide in February whether to expand the King County Fire District No. 43 Board of Commissioners from three to five.
The measure, Proposition 1, will be on the Feb. 9 special election ballot.
The Tahoma Cheer Boosters silent/live dinner auction gala, “Shoot for the Stars”, is scheduled for 5:30 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 6 at the Maplewood Gold Course, 4050 Maple Valley Hwy. in Renton.
The cheerleaders have been working since June to acquire items from local merchants for the auction.
TRIPLE WHAMMY: 19000 block of Southeast 272nd Street. A driver involved in a two vehicle collision was found to be quite intoxicated by officers investigating the crash as well as driving with a suspended license and behind the wheel of an allegedly stolen car.
