Lives of low-income families and former military personnel in King County “are improving” as a result of about $7 million in assistance through a countywide levy approved nearly three years ago by voters.
Metropolitan King County Council members met June 16 in Federal Way to discuss amendments to how the county is governed.
Good news from the Party Patrol: Based on the number of arrests so far, the countywide crackdown apparently is discouraging underage drinking.
County’s sewer charges going up for next two years
Kent School District administrators are considering ways to shave $2.8 million off next year’s district budget in the face of increased financial challenges during the 2008-09 school year.
In a project next week that could cause lengthy detours for motorists, King County road crews are scheduled to replace a culvert beneath Kent-Black Diamond Road south of Covington.
The MultiCare Urgent Care Center in Covington is switching to longer morning, evening and weekend hours.
Tahoma School District officials would like to fix things up, but they’ll need money to do so and are considering putting a bond issue on the ballot next spring.
If the senior programs at the community centers in Maple Valley and Black Diamond want a motto for one of their increasingly useful services, they might try “Have van, will travel.” Or maybe, “Beat the gas prices.”
Both centers provide transportation for seniors who don’t have their own cars or, if they, can’t afford gas for them.
A Burien city official will become Covington’s parks and recreation director next month.
Based on the number of arrests so far, a county-wide crackdown apparently is discouraging underage drinking.
Forty people were arrested throughout King County on a variety of charges last weekend, the debut of the annual effort by police agencies to keep teenagers away from alcohol during celebrations of the end of the school year.
In Marty Hauer’s final days before cancer took his life at the age of 41, the firefighter made sure he did something for his 10-year-old son, Colton, that he had done so many other times over the previous years.
Last fall, Clark Kostohris, a third-grade teacher at Shadow Lake Elementary School, promised that he and several other teachers would kiss a pig if the school’s students met goals for reading.
The students did. And the teachers paid up last Wednesday by puckering up with a live piglet.
Without as much bang for their buck this year at the annual Fourth of July Splash fireworks show at Lake Meridian Park, organizers are asking residents and businesses to donate money to help fund the display.
Out with bottled water, say King County officials.
County government last week joined other jurisdictions around the country by banning the purchase of single-serve bottled water.
A brief look at events and people making news in the Covington/Maple Valley area.
King County Councilman Reagan Dunn, as part of his ongoing battle against methamphetamine and other drugs, unveiled an ordinance last Thursday that would provide another tool for law enforcement and homeowners to work together to combat crime in neighborhoods.
He announced the legislation at a press conference where he introduced Tom and Florence Pruitt, a couple who live in unincorporated King County near Renton, who spent 13 months accumulating evidence and documenting issues with neighbors who were running a meth lab out of the rental home.
The compost bin is not the place for potentially tainted tomatoes.
That’s the word from Cedar Grove Composting in Maple Valley in the wake of recent cases nationally of people becoming ill after eating tomatoes with salmonella poisoning.
Catch the Reading Bug, the children’s summer reading program of King County Library System, starts June 16.
