The final numbers, according to Pierce County Elections, show Egan receiving 8,915 votes to McElligott’s 8,899.
Cited for its use of the High School That Work model since it was opened in 2005, the home of the Panthers was on of six schools in Pierce County named to the list by Superintendent of Public Instruction Randy Dorn.
This holiday season police officers and volunteers in orange vests are patrolling parking lots, on the lookout for valuables left in cars that might be potential targets for criminals looking for a quick score.
The team took home the first-place trophy in the military category. They performed to a song called “Downtown Toyko Chase” from the “Fast and the Furious, Tokyo Drift” soundtrack.
Only 22 votes separate the contenders, prompting a hand recount of all ballots.
Despite a relatively small roster signed up so far, the Bonney Lake High boys swim team has high hopes for the upcoming season.
Bowen said for the past several years, the food bank has been serving an average of 1,200 families per month, up from about 300 per month in 2007.
Laurie Carter has offered to donate a quarter for every can of food collected by Bonney Lake city employees and convinced the mayor, two councilmembers and a department head to match her giving.
Sumner Mayor Dave Enslow was one of several local dignitaries taking their turn in classrooms around the Sumner School District Thursday as part of Educator for a Day, part of the 90th anniversary of American Education Week.
Calendars include pictures of the city before development, original families to the area and tributes to longtime residents who died last year.
A K-9 unit was called in to track and find the suspect, who led police on a foot chase through backyards in Sumner.
By a 4-2 vote, the council officially designated the road “Veterans Memorial Drive East.”
12-year-old Rachel Quick of Bonney Lake saves her allowance all year to spend at Christmas on children she has never met.
