Vaccination rates for Pierce County school children are improving, according to recently released state-wide school immunization data from the Washington State Department of Health.
As the weather around Puget Sound turns sunnier and warmer, many of us will be taking part in any number of outdoor recreational activities the area has to offer. Whether you’re out for a hike or bike ride with the family or playing an organized team sport, taking care of your knees, hips and other joints will go a long way in ensuring you can enjoy all of summer’s fun activities.
Question: I know water is great for my health and hydration, but I get really tired of drinking it all the time. Are there any other healthy alternatives that will allow me to hydrate just as well?
Gallery 2013 presents the black-and-white work of photographer Jeff Ross in a display running Thursday through July 2.
Summer begins June 21! So it is time to grab the pruners, gloves and first aid kits and begin to plan summer pruning chores.
If you’ve lived here most of your life and you’re older than 40, you probably remember Sonny Bellack’s auto repair shop. Back in the day, Sonny was an excellent mechanic who worked in a dilapidated lean-to garage that, 30 years after his death, remained a rather picturesque, photographic junk pile until architect and engineer Carl Sanders came along, cleared the site, and erect an attractive brick building where the “Suburban Soul” used to be located.
At last, summer is here! So it is time to grab the pruners, gloves and first aid kits and begin to plan summer pruning chores.
This weeks editorial cartoon by Frank Shiers, Jr. shows a young student concerned about special sessions interrupting summer break.
The Spotlight Players Theatre Troupe returns to Meridian Habitat in South Hill to offer two theater camps for kids. For youth, with little or no experience in theater who are ages 6-13, may attend a camp July 8-12 from 9am-1pm for a fee of $75.
For the second straight year, the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW) will restrict target shooting on the Wenas Wildlife Area after bullets sparked wildfires on the 114,150-acre property near Ellensburg.
Komen Puget Sound has awarded a grant totaling $116,660 to support Franciscan Health System’s Breast Cancer Navigator Program which benefits medically underserved minority women in Tacoma/Pierce County and surrounding areas.
Marianne Moore was born on November 15, 1887, in Kirkwood, Missouri. She emerged in the literary world as part of the Imagist movement; fellow Imagist poet H.D. had Moore’s first book published without her knowledge in 1921. Moore died in 1972.
Edna St. Vincent Millay was born in Rockland, Maine, on February 22, 1892. She produced a large body of writing, including some of the best-known sonnets of the twentieth century, while pursuing a Bohemian lifestyle in New York City’s Greenwich Village. Millay died in 1950.