School starts tomorrow morning, business-as-usual. Teachers will welcome students into their classrooms to begin another year of education.
But there was an important difference, sight-unseen: those teachers will not be working under contract.
School starts tomorrow morning, business-as-usual. Teachers will welcome students into their classrooms to begin another year of education.
But there was an important difference, sight-unseen: those teachers will not be working under contract.
Low turnover can be hard to come by in high school sports, but the Bonney Lake High girls golf team is in the lucky position of retaining its entire roster from last year.
“We didn’t have any seniors last year,” coach Sharon Lovinger said. “Unfortunately we do have seniors this year, so we will lose some of them after this season.”
Sumner High School’s girls swim team carried home a third-place state trophy and left six school records shattered in their wake at the close of the 2010 season. In South Puget Sound League 2A, they were undefeated champs. And the Spartans’ 200 freestyle relay team won the school’s second title.
Summer’s almost over; in my opinion, not a moment too soon. The middle months of the year aren’t made for the husky gentleman. They’re not made for any adults, really. Few jobs put responsibilities on hold for three months, even for the important business of exploring new and exciting lawn chairs for shirtless drinking.
For some or most of us, the school-less wonder months went hand-in-hand with day trips to the local swimming pool. Summer without the pool is like a sundae without a cherry, a flip without a flop, Simon without Garfunkel, if you will.
In a three-way race for the two candidacy spots, Dumas took more than 41 percent of the vote, followed by Swanson with nearly 32 percent and former mayor and councilman Richard Lawson with a little less than 27 percent.
City council voted unanimously Aug. 15 to approve the formation of a Local Improvement District, paving the way for improvements to the intersection and the rest of the 136th Avenue corridor from 24th St. E. to 16th St. E.
The awards were announced Tuesday and Thursday at the annual Awards Luncheon and monthly district board of directors meeting, respectively.
The Sumner School District’s Board of Directors voted 3-2 Wednesday to enter into a third party pool management agreement with Bonney Lake Aquatics.
Though the museum has housed its late 19th/early 20th century collection for more than 30 years, the Sumner Historical Society is trying to bring it an order that will last into the future.
Word came Saturday from Salvation Army’s corporate operations that the evangelical charitable organization’s Sumner store and donation center would close Aug. 27.
The language change—which does nothing to prohibit public comment as usual—is part of an overhaul of the language and some procedure of the council rules of order and conduct.
Months of planning and development, and a weekend of marathon construction, culminated Monday evening in a substantial face lift for Sumner’s Main Street alleyway.