The long-term closure of the venerable Kummer Bridge – the most direct link between Enumclaw, Black Diamond and all points north and south – will certainly cause aggravation as drivers add 10 to 15 minutes to their commutes.
White River High School students will be given the opportunity Friday to accept Rachel’s Challenge.
Pierce County Developmental Disabilities is seeking individuals who would like to serve on the Developmental Disabilities Advisory Board. The board assists and advises Pierce County officials on services to individuals with developmental disabilities.
The Buckley Board of Adjustment will turn its attention to a proposed hot dog stand during an upcoming public hearing.
White River High School teachers Pamela Stern and June Shattuck are seeing positive results from the first-year reading program they are using.
Visitors young and old attended a Nov. 12 public hearing regarding the city of Buckley’s 2009 budget.
The Enumclaw Plateau Historical Society museum building will be the recipient of a $25,000 Heritage Facilities and Arts Equipment funding grant for rehabilitation.
• A resident of the Wynalda Drive area called police about 11:30 a.m. Thursday, reporting that an elderly man was going house to house asking for directions and appeared lost. An officer responded, was able to get an address from the man’s identification and provided the man a ride to that address.
City of Enumclaw offices will be closed Nov. 27 and 28 in observance of the Thanksgiving holiday.
Police now believe one bad decision led to another and, eventually, a group of White River High School students had hung a Barack Obama doll in effigy in a school stairwell.
As Gale Creek rushed over its banks in Wilkeson during the recent steady rains, it worked its way across Wilkeson Elementary School’s playground, encroached on one of the historical school’s portable buildings, surrounded Dennis and Sandi Smith’s home and then rushed across state Route 165 into oncoming traffic.
A line of perhaps two dozen cars and trucks sat motionless Friday morning, idled about seven miles east of Enumclaw as work crews cleared mud, rocks and large trees from state Route 410.
The Enumclaw School Board was expected to give the nod to district officials to place an $8.4 million capital facilities levy for school improvements and instructional technology on the Feb. 3 ballot at its regular meeting Monday night.
