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Whether your want to join a local gym or start working out at home, Enumclaw-area trainers have some advice for you. Photo courtesy Metro Creative Connection

Life

Don’t let COVID put your fitness on hold

Local trainers give tips for getting fit and staying healthy for the new year.

SoHaPP — Science of Happiness and Positive Psychology

Life

Be more positive with a change in the brain | SoHaPP

Take the month of January to make yourself a more Positive you.

Eric Wooldridge, Trinity Lutheran Church

Life

How to respond when life gets strange | Church Corner

Look to the Bible for how to respond when chaos erupts.

Jorge Espinosa proposed to his fiancée Andrea Abbott on Cole Street last December, with help from local business owners. Photo courtesy Emily Cole / http://emilyanncole.com

Life

Meet me on Cole Street: couple gets engaged on Enumclaw’s main thoroughfare

Jorge and Andrea were on each other’s social periphery growing up — until a fateful night on Cole…

Cindy Ehlke, Calvary Presbyterian

Life

The gift that keeps on giving | Church Corner

Don’t think about presents; think about His presence.

Photo by Ray Miller-Still 
Visitors to Cole Street have been enjoying weekly “snow” events every Friday from 5 to 5:30, when portions of the street close to allow folks to enjoy food and drinks outdoors around fire pits (if the weather is clear). Going into January, the snow events are expected to move to Saturdays at the same time.

Life

At A Glance: January 2022 events

Listen to some music, play in the snow, and get to meet your local journalists.

SoHaPP — the Science of Happiness and Positive Psychology. Image courtesy the SoHaPP team

Opinion

Habits for Happiness returns for the next five months | SoHaPP

If we can teach ourselves to be more positive, kind, mindful, active, and grateful, our lives can vastly…

Ben Auger, New Spirit Church

Life

Diversity is God’s design | Church Corner

In 1963, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. said, “The most segregated hour of Christian America is…

Nolte State Park in the winter. The park is one of more than 40 participating in this years First Day Hikes event. Photo by Mary Janosik / Visit Rainier.

News

Nolte State Park, 40 more among First Day Hikes event

Ranger Annabelle Bailey plans to lead the 1.4 mile hike while talking about native and invasive plant species…

Jeff Pratt finishes cutting the family Christmas tree at Mt. Rainier Nobles in Enumclaw. Photo by Alex Bruell

News

Sawing around the Christmas tree

A Buckley family visits the Mt. Rainier Nobles tree farm to select their Christmas tree.

Image courtesy Public Health Insider

Life

Talking with teens about fentanyl | Public Health Insider

More than 350 people are expected to die from a fentanyl overdose in 2021.

2021 Toyota Corolla XSE

Life

Car review: 2021 Toyota Corolla XSE

By Larry Lark, contributor

2021 Mazda CX-30 Crossover

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Car review: 2021 Mazda CX-30 Crossover

By Larry Lark, contributor