The Valley Medical Center Board of Commissioners will continue meeting at 3:30 p.m., after voting on Monday to rescind a decision to meet at 6 p.m. that effectively could have resulted in the resignation of one of its newest members.
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Air Force Airman Brandon Gillespie, formerly of Maple Valley, has completed basic military training at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio, Texas.
Students from Cedar Heights Middle School have been crushing the competition lately as more than a dozen kids placed in three different academic contests.
Nishanth Sukasi is completing his first year in the All State Concert Band. He auditioned and was accepted as one of eight alto sax payers this past fall. The band is a part of the Washington Music Educators Association and has approximately 200 members.
Between the busy nights performing as a professional jazz musician and the jam-packed days teaching elementary-school band students, Darren Motamedy said the latter has become the more challenging career.
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Students and schools in Covington and Maple Valley have received King County Earth Heroes awards for their actions on behalf of the environment.
Be prepared for when the next disaster hits, and know that local agencies are prepared, too – more so if residents are able to help themselves.
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Ashley Skinner, a student at Kentlake High School, has been selected as the student president of the Washington Vocational Sports Medicine Association.
Rainier Christian Schools will be host a school and community prayer walk May 17 to emphasize prayer’s “importance.”
Whirring of helicopter blades overhead in this area aren’t a figment of your imagination. It’s Guardian One, the King County Sheriff Department’s patrol chopper.
Kent School District superintendent Barbara Grohe has announced her upcoming retirement, which will be effective June 2009.
King County Executive Ron Sims has proposed a sewer rate increase that he said would soften the economic impact on ratepayers who already “are feeling the pinch.”
Russ Hayden can’t help but smile these days. Success has a way of doing that to a coach.
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