The Pierce County Council unanimously passed the amendments to its Comprehensive Plan and along with it amendment U3a, the Orton Junction amendment to the city of Sumner’s Urban Growth Area.
This is a Farm Fresh Produce Pumpkin Patch slideshow 2011
Testimony will be heard at 3 p.m. in the County Council chambers, 930 Tacoma Avenue South, Room 1045 in Tacoma.
Executive Director Arla Holzschuh retired at the end of September, turning in her letter of resignation Sept. 29, which became effective Sept. 30.
The East Pierce Firefighters will be at the Bonney Lake Safeway this weekend wearing pink t-shirts and collecting donations to go to breast cancer research.
With the cancellation of bus routes throughout East Pierce County, seniors have been one of the groups most affected by the change, leaving many stranded for rides when they used to visit the center, or even worse: unable to get to medical appointments.
The blotter is summarized from police reports and does not make a judgement on the subjects’ innocence or guilt. All accused are innocent until proven guilty.
City council is preparing for a mid-biennial budget amendment as property tax revenues continue to fall.
You hold in your hands a valuable document, an active part of your community that has told cradle-to-grave stories of the Enumclaw Plateau for more than a century.
And, contrary to nattering of some, we’re not about to go away. Like Mr. Twain famously said, rumors of our death have been greatly exaggerated.
I am not sure if anyone besides me has noticed, but we are lucky and blessed here on the Plateau and the valley below when it comes to watching high school girls participate – and often excel – in sporting events.
I’ve lived in the Sumner School District for over 50 years and taught at Sumner High School a number of years, so good schools are important to me.
The alleged murder of Mary Mushapaidzi by her boyfriend Mthulisi Ndlovu on Oct. 2 brought the problem of domestic violence to the front page of the papers again, starting off National Domestoc Violence Awareness Month in a way no one had hoped, but making it impossible to ignore.
For their second day using the new parking system, things were moving along pretty well, if a little slowly, Thursday at the Bonney Lake Food Bank, where the need of the community long ago outgrew the building’s four parking spaces.