As of 12:10 p.m. today, Pierce County completed its final tabulation of ballots in the November election, allowing them to be certified by the county auditor. The election saw a 78.89 percent turnout among registered Pierce County voters.
If the motto “experience matters” holds water, the Sumner wrestling team has little to mind going into the 2012 winter season.
The new taxing entity—comprised of council members—will meet for the first time in early 2013.
Every year, residents from Sumner and its surrounding communities gather at the unnamed bridge dividing Main Street from Valley Avenue East and watch as the steel framework is illuminated by thousands of Christmas lights.
In the “grandparent scam,” featured in an article last week, scammers call households they know to be occupied by senior citizens, and claim to be a grandchild or other young relative. The scammer will claim he is in trouble abroad and needs money wired right away.
Sumner’s girls basketball team is starting the 2012-2013 winter season with a veteran roster and new coaching staff.
Jacoby Miles, a 15-year-old competitive gymnast, was practicing on the uneven bars at Roach Gymnastics when a double back dismount went awry. As Miles described it to coach and gym owner Melanie Roach, she became “lost” in midair, losing a sense of her bearings and landing on her neck. She was transported to St. Joseph’s in Tacoma, then Harborview Medical Center in Seattle, where she underwent surgery Saturday to correct a dislocated C4 vertebrae.
The site home page was showing graphical glitches yesterday and today. The wonky appearance—pictures not loading correctly, objects appearing in places where they’re not supposed to, etc.—only happens on the site’s welcome page and seemingly only in the Google Chrome browser.
Before and after the election day news of legal marijuana in Washington state, speculation, misinformation, unanswered questions and “unanswered” questions have been lobbed from all sides. Will I be able to buy a joint from the 7/11? Does marijuana have an open container equivalent? How will marijuana be packaged and sold?
The first provisions of Initiative 502, the measure legalizing marijuana for recreational use at the state level, will go into place Dec. 6, pending election certification later this month. On that date, up to one ounce of useable marijuana will be decriminalized and the Driving Under the Influence of Drugs mandate will go into place.
Area residents should beware of a potential phone scam making a resurgence. A woman living near Bonney Lake almost fell victim to the “grandparent scam” earlier this week.
The Bonney Lake Chamber of Commerce hits its 30th anniversary this winter, and will celebrate with an invitation-only cocktail party at Kelley Farm Dec. 6.
The Sumner girls volleyball team took a run at the WIAA State 2A tournament Friday and missed. The Spartans were knocked out of state contention in two games against formidable opponents.