Officers were called to a report of vandalism on March 5. The reporting party shows officers where his car was shot with what looked like a BB pellet several times. The reporting party also told officers he found similar damage to his bedroom window.
Officers were dispatched March 4 to a report of two adults shoplifting with their children. The adults, one male and one female, were trespassed from the store and placed under arrest for theft, cited and then released.
On March 3, officers were called to a driver’s report of her car being struck on the window by a small object. The reporting party told officers that she walked down the street and heard juveniles laughing, but did not see them.
Washington’s tuberculosis (TB) cases were on the rise last year, putting state and local public health officials on heightened alert. During 2015, the state’s TB rate rose by seven percent from the previous year. Across the globe, TB now kills more people each year than any other infectious disease, surpassing HIV/AIDS as the leading cause of infectious disease death worldwide.
The agenda and full agenda packet for the March 22, 2016 City Council Meeting are now available to view online.
Moviegoers at theaters throughout Pierce County can catch an important message about “Why smoke-free housing is important?” Tacoma-Pierce County Health Department’s Smoke-Free Housing Task Force produced the Public Service Announcement (PSA) to reach residents and property owners.
Pierce County News for the week of March 17, 2016.
For the last 20 years, Lt. Gov. Brad Owen (D) has served Washington well. Now, he is retiring and leaving the state senate as he found it—a dignified place to debate and enact public policy.
Pierce County roadsides will get their annual makeover this spring and summer. An initial application of herbicides to combat weeds along road shoulders will start Monday, March 28, and continue through June. Targeted noxious weeds and brush control applications will occur through the end of November as needed. Only federal- and state-approved herbicides are used.
It’s usually later in life that we see the more dramatic signs of aging, like gray hair, wrinkles, and lots of birthday candles on our cake. But we really start growing older from the time we are born.
Have you ever run into a friend some place you never anticipated seeing them? Perhaps you are at a mutual friend’s party, not knowing you’re both acquaintances with the host. Maybe you are at a Mariners game and while standing in line for a hotdog you see an old friend. Most of the time when this happens there is a sense of surprise and excitement. You both say at the same time, “What are you doing here?”
Little Marko was on fire. The man most know as Sen. Marko Liias, D-Lynnwood, was riffing on all the goodness in the supplemental transportation budget and dropping kudos to Gov. Jay Inslee along the way.
Washington’s legislators will have to play nice for just a little while longer.
