As we leave the winter weather behind us and enter spring, the Sumner Spartans baseball team takes the field for the new season. Casey Adcox returns as head coach for his ninth season at Sumner. Adcox has been coaching baseball now for 17 seasons.
What’s better than chocolate? Death by chocolate, obviously. The Bonney Lake Lions club is hosting its one and only annual fundraiser, Death by Chocolate, at 5:30 p.m. Saturday, March 12, in the Bonney Lake High School commons area.
Bonney Lake has tightened its firework legislation after a heated debate about whether fireworks should be banned from the city. The council passed Ordinance D16-04, which sets new times to launch legal fireworks and revises firework penalties, during the Feb. 23 meeting.
Coaches have compared notes, wrangled with intangibles and arrived at their all-league squads for the 2015-16 season. Here are the honored players – in both the South Puget Sound League 3A and 2A ranks – from the four area schools.
The Panther fastpitch team is eager to play ball after last year’s disappointing 8-12 record, said seven-season coach Andrew Sage. Bonney Lake will see many players from last season return to the team, including seniors Melanie Torr and Robin Morin, juniors Eleseana Quintanar, Kira Mitchell, Emma Sulkosky and Joey Ahern, and sophomore Raelyn Kimmel.
On March 1 officers were called to a report of a burglary. The reporting party told officers that meat was stolen from the freezer, as well as a plastic tote.
Officers were called Feb. 26 for a disorderly conduct report. An intoxicated couple had started arguing with other customers at a theater and with theater management when the couple refused to leave.
On Feb. 24 officers were contacted by a woman who reported the theft of her jewelry. The reporting party told officers two rings were taken from their hiding place, and the house had no signs of being burglarized.
Officers contacted a driver who had hit a curb and drove across part of the island on Veterans Memorial Drive Feb. 22. The driver told the officers the front left shock of the car popped off, which was why he was driving this way.
Officers were called Feb. 19 to a report of a back gate being unlatched, an unknown hooded man in the backyard and a mysterious car in his driveway. Officers arrived on the scene and advised he could have the car towed.
Starting this fall, area high school students must have received their two doses of chickenpox vaccine before they start classes. This will mark the end of a nine-year Washington State Department of Health chickenpox vaccine implementation plan that started requiring kindergarten students to get their second chickenpox vaccine dose in the 2008-2009 school year.
When I went to visit my friend Susan Perkins, an instructor of nursing at Washington State University, she shined a tiny light in my nose. Sure enough, she found some crusty little boogies.
The Washington State Liquor and Cannabis Board (WSLCB) will stop accepting marijuana retail license applications March 31, 2016 at 5:00 p.m. The WSLCB began processing retail applications on Oct. 12, 2015 to accommodate additional demand and provide additional access points before the medical and recreational marketplace are merged on July 1, 2016.
