Ione Perrin, a longtime resident of the Shadow Lake area and a pioneer of Maple Valley, will celebrate her 90th birthday during a reception in her honor Sept. 13 from 1:30 to 4 p.m. at Greater Maple Valley Community Center.
Rock for Reason, a Maple Valley youth organization raising money to build wells in Africa, has scheduled a fund-raising show for 7 p.m. Sept. 19 at Warehouse 91, which is at 21415 Maple Valley Hwy.
Lacy Hill was so nervous, her hands shook. Her sister, Cori, told her to stop shaking. “It’s just Tony Stewart,” she said.
King County residents can dispose of old household hazardous substances when the county’s Wastemobile visits Covington Sept. 5-7.
As another new school year begins, Tahoma School District and the Tahoma Education Association are part of a lawsuit that backers say is an attempt to bring about changes in the way Washington funds public schools.
This year’s senior class has already improved on the WASL performance of students in the class of 2008.
As students head back to class on Tuesday in the Tahoma School District, there are a few new things happening:
Their buildings are quiet right now – too quiet by their standards. But the five newest principals in the Kent School District are using their time to prepare for the first day of school next Tuesday, because they all know that when those doors open and the kids come piling in, the year moves very fast.
Workers planned to close a bridge on State Route 169 across the Green River Friday for work on an unstable…
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The annual Covington Storehouse Back to School barbecue was staged last Saturday, mixing free food and raffles with free support for children as they get ready for the start next week of the new school year.
For being relatively new, Cedarcreek Covenant Church is an old hand at hosting community gatherings.
Taking on the principal’s position at Rock Creek Elementary School is like coming home for Fritz Grere.
As it prepares for the start of the 180-day, 2008-09 school year next Tuesday, the Kent School District:
Carol’s Maple Valley Floral wants people to meet and make or renew friendships, and the business has free roses to help make it happen.
• Classes in the 2008-09 school year will begin Sept. 2 for Rainier Christian Schools, which has campuses in the Maple Valley, Covington, Renton and Auburn areas. The private system was founded in 1994, and in recent years it has averaged a total enrollment of about 915 students, including about 160 in high school.
By KRIS HILL The Reporter How people get around, as well as how much it costs, was the topic of…
David Lucavish remembers growing up in Tacoma in a neighborhood without fences where everyone knew each other, and he’d like to use that open-community concept as the cornerstone of his approach to serving on the Covington City Council.
It’s been a long time since Kelly Carroll hasn’t had to get up at 5 a.m. to get started on her work delivering food and clothing for R. Place of Refuge, the charity organization she runs out of her Kent East Hill-area home.
