• About 9 a.m. Feb. 22, an officer responded to a call by a citizen about damage to a business on state Route 410. Upon arrival the officer noticed the side entrance door was broken. There was no evidence of burglary and it looked as if the glass in the door was broken by a BB gunshot.
The Sumner City Council approved an ordinance Feb. 17 that increases the penalty for those paying their water bill late.
The day after a Sumner woman was found dead in her home, her daughter pleaded not guilty to two counts of murder in Pierce County Superior Court.
By a 4-2 vote, the Bonney Lake City Council passed an ordinance that would amend a section of the Municipal Code addressing building permits and permit applications.
Finding a more appropriate facility is among the many changes being suggested by a task force charged with examining the Collins Alternative Programs.
The Yelm Tornadoes led from start to finish, defeating the Bonney Lake High girls 60-50 in the first round of the Class 3A West Central/Southwest bidistrict tournament Wednesday at Clover Park High School.
Schools throughout the Sumner School District will host kindergarten registration week Monday through March 6 for the upcoming school year.
A 60-year-old Sumner woman was found murdered in her home Monday afternoon.
A quick stroll past the meat counter of a popular megastore Sunday afternoon prompted thoughts of Piggy Sue and others.
When the ribbon was snipped on a new floating bridge connecting Montlake to the eastside in 1963, a toll was collected to pay for its construction. It ranged over time from 25 to 35 cents and was lifted in 1979 when the bridge was paid off ahead of schedule. The I-90 bridge was never tolled, not when first opened in 1940, not when its companion bridge opened in 1963 and not when the new I-90 opened in the early 1990s.
There’s a move afoot in the United States to eliminate coal as a source of energy. Opponents prefer cleaner renewable energy, but coal provides more than half of our nation’s electricity and will for at least the next 20 years. There won’t be enough alternative energy for decades — if ever — to replace it.
I was standing on a street corner last week waiting for the crosswalk light to change. All of a sudden, a guy stepped alongside and distinctly said, “You know something? You’ve got a face like a smashed jack-o-lantern.”
