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.
The library will offer print and online tax aides to guide filers through the process of preparing their own tax return or finding the Internal Revenue Service forms they need.
The vehicle had left the roadway and was parked in a turn-in near Wendy’s fast food restaurant, in the commercial park on the eastbound side of 410 by the Park and Ride.
Sumner School District’s Board of Directors voted unanimously Wednesday to hire Dr. Sara Johnson — assistant superintendent to the Lincoln County School District in Oregon — as the next superintendent.
Maile Gagner, a Bonney Lake graduate and Central Washington University student, will co-host and perform at the quarterfinals competition.
The swearing in ceremony, presided over by Municipal Judge Ron Heslop, was held at the beginning of the city’s regular city council meeting and attended by police both in and outside BLPD, including Chief Brad Moericke of Sumner.
Thirty-five Olympians will showcase their individual talents and compete in a full team match-up beginning at 6:30 p.m. in the Panther gym.
The Auto Show will be held on the Buckley Log Show grounds May 18, and the club’s students are already working hard to pack the house.
As the Bonney Lake government has moved its executive, legislative and judicial departments to the Justice Center and as it prepares to move its Public Works Department into the old City Hall on Bonney Lake Boulevard, city officials have recognized that the buildings’ given names will no longer fully reflect their functions. The former city hall’s name would no longer reflect its resident departments at all.
Sumner High School’s students — and some adult Sumnerites — put their talents on display last week to raise money for Sumner community man Dean Inglin.
Somewhere between her first race in 1985, at age 12, and her retirement from competition at the 1998 world championship in Pamplona, inline speed skater Vicci King picked up 25 gold medals. She earned 20 in United States Nationals, five in World Championship competitions, and many more silver and bronze in both. In 2007, she was inducted into the USA Roller Sports Hall of Fame.
On Valentine’s Day evening, while some were sharing a romantic night with their sweetie, the Bonney Lake Lion’s Club and Don Stevenson passed the University of Washington Eye Institute an $8,100 love note.