Black Diamond Miners Days opens this Friday and continues through Sunday.
The fifth annual festival will include merchants’ sidewalk sales all three days, a lunch hosted by Eastern Star on Saturday, a barbecue and chili cookoff and a wine-tasting (the latter at Mama Passarelli’s Dinner House) on Saturday, and a casino night Saturday.
For the second straight year, Green River Community College is hosting student leaders from Bangladesh for a Leadership Institute as part of a federal grant program funded by the U.S. State Department.
Citizens participating in a forum on Covington’s economic development came up with the following when asked for suggestions on how to build a lasting economy, examples of businesses that fit with the city, and unique opportunities for Covington:
Downtown Covington is booming with new development, but residents who attended an economic development forum hosted by the city want to see more of everything, from restaurants to shops to hotels.
King County Executive Ron Sims wants a 25-cent fare increase on Metro Transit buses to help offset rising fuel costs and avoid cutting any service.
In a few months, the privilege of using the boat launch at Lake Meridian might cost a few dollars.
The funds would be used to help maintain the launch, as well as to control weeds in the lake. The fee also could cut down the number of boats to help prevent overcrowding on the water.
A State Route 169 bridge across the Green River near Black Diamond has been declared safe for traffic following emergency repairs of the roadway last week.
James Koch wants to make sure fellow volunteer firefighters stay safe, so he is supporting Maple Valley Fire and Life Safety’s levy lid lift – Proposition 1 – which will be on the Aug. 19 primary election ballot.
Koch is part of the three-member Citizen Committee to Pass Maple Valley Proposition 1, along with Jim Blumenthal and Paul Bokar.
If the measure is passed by voters in the district, which includes Maple Valley and some Covington areas, it will allow Maple Valley Fire (also known as Fire District 43) to restore its property taxing level to $1.50 per $1,000 of assessed valuation, chief Tim Lemon explained.
Bill Blair, 69, an active member of the community who served on the city’s Planning Commission, died June 19 at his home in Covington.
The home of Darcy Burner, a candidate for Congress in the district that includes Maple Valley, Black Diamond and Covington, was destroyed in a fire Tuesday morning.
The Covington, Maple Valley, and Black Diamond branches of the King County Library System are seeking volunteers to teach beginning computer classes such as “Introduction to Computers,” “Internet Level 1,” “E-mail Basics” and “Microsoft Office Products.” Applicants will be trained to be NetMaster volunteers.
Tahoma Learning Community, a program affiliated with the Tahoma School District, offers offers art and sports camps and other activities this summer.
Late for work and showing no patience for traffic, a 23-year-old Bonney Lake man decided to apply plenty of zip to his high-performance motorcyclethe morning of June 27 – to the tune of 140 miles per hour.
Log jams adding to Green River’s danger
A proposed U.S. Senate spending bill includes $1.1 million for programs affecting the south King County area.
A countywide ban on the continuous chaining or tethering of dogs has been proposed by a Metropolitan King County Council member.
King County’s embattled animal care and control program has a new acting director to replace the old one.
The teenager who drowned June 20 at Lake Meridian was Isaih Goodwin, 14, a Kentwood High School student.
