The city of Bonney Lake will officially oppose the approval of Sumner’s Orton Junction Urban Growth Area amendment before the Pierce County Regional Council Thursday evening.
Four councilmembers, a planning commission member and a city staff member all took part in the four-hour tour and discussion with members of the YMCA as preparations move ahead for a bond vote to bring a facility to the former Washington State University Demonstration Forest on state Route 410.
Following another busy and generally noisy Fourth of July holiday, the Bonney Lake Public Safety Committee is once again to revisit the legality of fireworks within Bonney Lake city limits.
After several years of hosting the event at Ken Simmons Park and then moving to Cedarview Park, the city this week announced that this year’s second event will move to the Lake Jane Estates community park around Lake Debra Jane.
As a stay-at-home mom with three kids, Christine Livingston has been finding ways to make her dollars stretch as far as they can for a while.
According to new reports put together by the city finance department, Bonney Lake saw larger than expected sales tax collection for March and April, marking the two biggest hauls for the months in the past five years.
Bonney Lake resident and Fennel Creek Corridor Advisory Committee member Marion Betzer this past weekend organized a tour to allow access through some private property for views and a history lesson about Fennel Creek.
Among the changes are removing references in the Eastown Sub-Area Plan to Eastown being a “Town Center,” so as not to confuse the region with the city’s pedestrian-friendly Downtown plan.
Due to the growth of the district in the past decade, the East Pierce Board of Commissioners has grown to 11 members – more than double the number prescribed by law (the board began the year with 12, but Commissioner Andrew Longstreth resigned this spring). Because of that, several seated members are forced to run against each other this fall as the board is now forced to contract.
Fireworks are illegal in both Bonney Lake and Sumner except for short windows around Independence Day.
The board this past week approved a memo of understanding between the district and the firefighters union to limit at 55 the number of volunteers in East Pierce’s program and to allow sleeper volunteers at two of the district’s stations.
A few months ago, I did a story about a truck hitting a house in Sumner. The 18-wheeler strayed into a small, residential neighborhood and, in attempting to turn around, the driver backed his rig into a house and knocked one of the community’s mobile homes off its blocks.
According to the residents, this is not an uncommon occurrence.
Drivers in Bonney Lake’s Eastown section will have one more obstacle thrown their way this week when part of 234th Avenue East is closed to officially move the intersection.
