It was a gut-wrenching decision, but Beth Madill knew she had to step away from something she loves.
The 20th Annual Community Summit, hosted by the Sumner/Bonney Lake Communities for Families Coalition, will be held March 21 at Bonney Lake High School.
Bonney Lake High School Culinary Arts teacher Kahale Ahina was selected as the 2013 ProStart Teacher of the Year by the Washington Restaurant Association Education Foundation. Ahina was also nominated for the 2013 National Restaurant Association Educator of the Year that will be announced at the ProStart Invitational in May.
Longtime Sumner residents are well familiar with the town’s 150-plus year history — if not in detail, then through family and word-of-mouth passage. But the story of the Rhubarb Pie Capital will soon be widely available in print, chronicled in an upcoming installment of Arcadia Publishing’s “Images of America” series. And anyone with a photo from bygone days is invited to contribute.
Sumner School District’s Board of Directors voted unanimously Feb. 27 to hire Dr. Sara Johnson — assistant superintendent to the Lincoln County School District in Oregon — as the next superintendent.
I had no particular sense about the importance of agriculture or livestock. Even though I lived in “The Breadbasket of the World,” (California) and one of the nation’s leading dairy states, I could not tell the difference between, say, a Holstein cow and a Jersey. I was a real heifer.
Attorney General Bob Ferguson learned the U.S. Dept. of Energy has now increased the number of identified leaking single-shelled radioactive waste storage tanks on the Hanford Nuclear Reservation from the one they reported last week to six—and they admit there may be more.
Deer and elk hunters have until March 31 to enter their name in a drawing for a 2013 multiple-season permit, which can greatly increase their opportunities for success in the field.
Pierce County Prosecutor Mark Lindquist charged Stephen Passmore, 49, with burglary and trafficking in stolen property for stealing and selling $1500 worth of scrap metal. The defendant was arrested and arraigned this week after being featured on Q13’s Washington’s Most Wanted.
Insurance Commissioner Mike Kreidler issued more than $2 million in fines against insurers, agents and brokers in 2012.
This bill, which is also known as the “Reproductive Parity Act,” requires health insurance plans that provide coverage for maternity care or services to also provide substantially equivalent coverage for voluntary abortions.
A Tacoma man who continued to deal drugs while illegally armed with a handgun even after his first federal arrest, was sentenced today to six years in prison and five years of supervised release.
An ordinance authorizing amendments to interlocal cooperation agreements for the disbursement of Conservation Future Tax levy funds (Ordinance 2013-0074).