Rotary Club of Covington: Noon Fridays. Covington City Hall, 16720 S.E. 271st St., Covington.
It is often called “The Forgotten War” or “The Unknown War,” but many veterans remember it all too well.
The Memorial Day holiday weekend, something of a traditional start of the good-weasther season, should also be a time when people think twice before dipping into the dangerously cold waters in this area.
Tahoma High School cracked the top 1,400 in the United States in an academic ranking of high schools by Newsweek magazine.
As it has since it opened in 1997, Tahoma National Cemetery will host a Memorial Day ceremony in honor of Americans who have died in military service to their nation.
Kentwood sprinter Devin St. Clair faced his first significant challenge of the track season on Friday and Saturday during the West Central District meet at Mount Tahoma High.
The Tahoma High School Class of 1998 Reunion Committee still needs help finding “missing” gfraduates.
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The members of Girl Scouts Troop 1415 in Covington recently went to the Kent Resource Center to make stepping stones for Morrill Meadows Park, a Kent city park. Doing their work at the Kent Resource Center, the girls worked with an artist on the decorative stones, which project organizers call “pebble mosaic movers” and are scheduled to be placed at the park before June 15.
The Washington Dental Service Foundation SmileMobile will be at Meadow Ridge Elementary School, 27710 108th Ave. SE., on June 3-13. The fully equipped mobile dental clinic provides dental care to children with limited family income and accepts medical coupons and sliding fee scale based on family income.
Covington is going to be a little bit healthier this summer.
A special election next Tuesday will decide if King County Fire Districts 17 and 44 merge.
Kenneth Seng, who colleagues said made the public’s safety his “highest concern” while displaying leadership and “compassion” as a commissioner for Mountain View Fire and Rescue/Fire District 44, has died.
Corner of Love, a Christian non-profit outreach – birthed out of Shepherd of the Valley Lutheran Church – that is supported by local residents and churches, has something to celebrate.
When someone with an emergency calls 9-1-1, the voice that answers probably won’t ever make the news. In the south King County area, that voice often belongs to one of the call receivers at Valley Communications.
A community environmental project for Soos Creek is on tap this Saturday.
Students in the We the People class for seniors at Tahoma High School started the school year as students taking a government class to satisfy a graduation requirement.
