After dialing in to the Aug. 16 council workshop though a conference call, Johnson “attended” the Aug. 23 regular council meeting via Skype, appearing from his hospital room at the University of Washington Medical Center on the projection screen behind the council.
After more than a year of dealing with orange cones and construction vehicles, drivers in Bonney Lake are only about a week away from hitting the open road as the Washington State Department of Transportation are nearly ready to open all four lanes of state Route 410 through Eastown.
Members of the council questioned county Public Works and Utilities Director Brian Ziegler for more than an hour during a presentation on the county’s plans to re-create a Flood Control Zone District that was formed and disbanded last year following a lawsuit from several of the cities within the county.
As Bonney Lake Elementary School begins to celebrate its 50th year, students and teachers are returning to a familiar campus and a familiar footprint, but a whole new school.
With the two rounds of ballots counted from Tuesday’s Primary election, East Pierce Fire and Rescue’s EMS levy is well on its way to passage and the races for fire commissioner and Sumner city council are closer to being settled.
Johnson will undergo what is known as an allogeneic transplant of stem cells into his bone marrow.
We are firing government workers at a faster pace than we can create public sector jobs, which actually creates a higher need for the government services we are cutting from. It’s a vicious cycle.
The city of Bonney Lake has received the final estimates on construction of the Eastown sewer system and they are about what was expected.
Now in its sixth year at Daffodil Valley, the program includes four different modules, all designed to get kids interested in the messier sides of science by allowing them to take things apart, rebuild them and invent new things the world has never seen.
The Bonney Lake festivities begin at 5 p.m. at Ken Simmons park before moving to the Lake Debra Jane Estates HOA Park at 6:15 p.m.
Movie-themed cancer fundraiser gets started at 6 p.m. Friday.
A Sumner-Buckley Highway warehouse purchased by the city of Bonney Lake will become a road extension for the future Downtown Plan.
On Tuesday, the third anniversary of Packer’s death, the department will dedicate the memorial, which included mementos from the former chief’s entire life, from his boyhood on a ranch in Montana to the tools of the trade he used while fighting the wild fire that claimed his life in 2008.
