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    Articles by Alex Bruell
    The Green River, where a swimmer was swept away and drowned the summer of 2022. Image courtesy Enumclaw Fire Department.
    Don’t let the heat fool you: Rivers pose...
    By Alex Bruell • May 12, 2023 5:45 pm

    Advice from local rescue agencies on how to stay safe while cooling off.

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    Tacoma Rep. Jake Fey (D) speaks to the future of Washington state’s commercial aviation needs during a Feb. 16 House of Representatives transportation committee hearing. Photo via TVW.
    Goodbye CACC, hello CACWG?
    By Alex Bruell • February 23, 2023 11:20 am

    Legislation would create successor to much-debated airport commission

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    Alex Bruell, Sound Publishing reporter
    So long, and thanks for all the fish
    By Alex Bruell • February 7, 2023 9:00 am

    Reporter Alex Bruell is transitioning to the Federal Way Mirror full time.

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    This chart is from the National Park Service.
    Help a salmon, catch a brook trout
    By Alex Bruell • February 2, 2023 12:00 pm

    Mount Rainier Park relaxes rules on nonnative fishing to help native fish thrive

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    Sen. Phil Fortunato, R-31, Rep. Drew Stokesbary, R-31, and Rep. Eric Robertson, R-31.
    What Plateau legislators are pursuing this year in...
    By Alex Bruell • January 30, 2023 12:40 pm

    Police chases, tax credits, graffiti, and emergency powers — check out what’s on the table this session.

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    In this screenshot of a TVW recording, Washington State representative Tom Dent (R - Moses Lake) speaks during a conversation about the Commercial Aviation Coordinating Commission (CACC) during a Jan. 9 meeting of the House Transportation Committee.
    ‘We’re not finished:’ Legislators may take another crack...
    By Alex Bruell • January 25, 2023 9:06 am

    Rep. Tom Dent of Moses Lake says the current sites considered for a new airport “are wrong.”

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    The Rainier School in Buckley has been caring for people with mental disabilities since 1939, though originally under the name the Western State Custodial School. It was the first such facility in Washington state, though now it is one of four. Image courtesy The Rainier School
    In settlement, Rainier School agrees to closure of...
    By Alex Bruell • January 20, 2023 12:40 pm

    More than 50 residents will be affected

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    This image shared by WSDOT Senior Aviation Planner Rob Hodgman shows the challenges that come with trying to put a major airport in Southeast King County (circled in yellow). It intersects with the SeaTac airspace (showed in gray) and butts up against the Cascade Range, putting it an an awkward position to receive or send out flights.
    Untangling the dilemma of Washington’s new airport search
    By Alex Bruell • January 18, 2023 11:00 am

    While the state Department of Transportation is still examining whether Enumclaw would make for a good site, one official says the lack of airspace will make it nearly impossible.

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    Photo by Alex Bruell 
Japanese-inspired, Washington-based sushi joint Trapper’s Sushi is opening its newest branch at the heart of Enumclaw this month. Located at 1537 Cole Street at what was formerly Jackson’s restaurant, the Trapper’s location will celebrate a soft opening on Jan. 21 and 22 and its grand opening on Jan. 23.
    Trapper’s Sushi opens this month on Cole Street
    By Alex Bruell • January 13, 2023 12:00 pm

    Jackson’s is no more.

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    Photo by Alex Bruell
Behind the Howard Hanson Dam lies around 100 miles of prime fish-spawning habitat.
    Congress, Biden give go-ahead to Howard Hanson Dam...
    By Alex Bruell • January 10, 2023 12:24 pm

    A fish passage facility at the dam is being given more than $878 million for the project.

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    Drivers negotiate the Krain intersection without power Monday morning after a major windstorm knocked out power across much of the Plateau Jan. 9. In Enumclaw, tossed-around trash and recycling bins and downed branches signaled the effects of the angry winds. Photo by Alex Bruell.
    Windstorm knocks out power in Krain, east Plateau...
    By Alex Bruell • January 9, 2023 11:30 am

    More than a thousand people in the Plateau may be without power Monday morning due to a windstorm sweeping through…

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    Kyle Miller, one of more than 50 people who entered Enumclaw’s design-a-flag contest last year, had his design chosen to represent the city. Photo by Ray Miller-Still
    Enumclaw’s new city flag given high grade by...
    By Alex Bruell • January 6, 2023 3:00 pm

    The flag placed in the top quarter of U.S. cities

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    Photos by Alex Bruell One of two papier-mâché elves accompanying Santa Claus at the Mickelberry Christmas display.
    Walking in a winter wonderland
    By Alex Bruell • December 23, 2022 12:30 pm

    The Mickelberries are self-professed “Christmas freaks,” Sheri said: “Whether anybody even came and saw it, we’d still be putting up everything.”

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