Despite losing both of his singles players to graduation, Sumner High boys tennis coach Chris Heacox thinks his team will hold its own with anyone in their league, including last year’s state champion Washington team.
A fire destroyed an office on the 14000 block of 16th Street East, in Sumner early Tuesday morning.
Students in Dieringer started school Tuesday, but Wednesday marks the first day of classes for students in the Sumner School District.
For the past several months visitors to Bonney Lake Police Chief Mike Mitchell’s office have been greeted by a large, blue pig with a Seahawks logo painted on the side, wearing a scarf.
The majority of my 55 years spent hanging out on this big blue marble we call earth, have been spent as a pessimist. The reason for this being, I used to tell myself, is that if I don’t expect good things to happen, then I won’t suffer mind-splitting disappointment when things don’t pan out exactly the way I hoped they would.
With 9 minutes remaining on the game clock, Auburn Mountainview let the ball, and the game, slip out of its hands. That fumble was all the Sumner Spartans needed to close the door on the Lions’ attempt at a win Friday night.
On the way to a 40-34 victory by the visitors, the Panthers and White River Hornets combined for more than 800 yards of offense – and did so in distinctly different ways.
A final movie and the Labor of Love Triathlon round out the summer season at AYP.
Though intended as a temporary project, Swatman said he has heard no indication that the park will go away and said because it is such a success, the only talk is about possible expansion, though there are no definite plans to do so.
“We were league champions last year, but that was last year,” Sumner High running back Tyler Salisbury said.
For some or most of us, the school-less wonder months went hand-in-hand with day trips to the local swimming pool. Summer without the pool is like a sundae without a cherry, a flip without a flop, Simon without Garfunkel, if you will.
In a three-way race for the two candidacy spots, Dumas took more than 41 percent of the vote, followed by Swanson with nearly 32 percent and former mayor and councilman Richard Lawson with a little less than 27 percent.
After dialing in to the Aug. 16 council workshop though a conference call, Johnson “attended” the Aug. 23 regular council meeting via Skype, appearing from his hospital room at the University of Washington Medical Center on the projection screen behind the council.