The King County Library System (KCLS) will ask voters to approve a property tax levy lid lift for one year
The measure will be on the Feb. 9 special election ballot, which is mail-only.
The Maple Valley Youth Symphony Orchestra played the U.S. and Canadian national anthems tonight at the Seattle Thunderbirds’ game at the ShoWare Center in Kent.
The westbound lanes of state Route 18 will remain closed until at least Wednesday, Jan. 20, after a second slide brought down approximately 1,500 cubic yards of mud, rocks and debris across all westbound lanes of the highway Thursday evening, Jan. 14.
Fifth grader Clayton Stults declared, “Bill Gates is a genius,” as he logged onto a wireless server using a brand…
As members of the Association for Librarian’s Services to Children gear up to debate who will win the John Newbery Medal, students in Angela Ramsey’s fifth grade class from Grass Lake Elementary have been pondering the same issue.
Donald Hayes of Covington pled guilty to a lesser charge of attempted voyeurism on Nov. 12 in King County Superior Court, according to Dan Donahoe, spokesman for the King County Prosecutor’s office.
Hayes, 54, was originally charged with felony voyeurism Aug. 10 after he was accused of videotaping a 13-year-old girl while she undressed in a spare room in his home.
A mudslide on state Route 18 in Auburn has closed the westbound lanes at state Route 167 while geotechnical experts will assess the stability of the slope to determine whether state Department of Transportation crews can safely begin removing the debris.
The Maple Valley police officer hit by a car Tuesday is in a rehabilitation facility and will be for an extended period of time according to Police Chief Michelle Bennett.
The 22-year-old officer was responding to a kidnapping report from a 12-year-old boy, which turned out to be a hoax, when he was struck by the car.
Students at three Tahoma schools will have brighter classrooms and hallways soon thanks to the installation of new lighting ballasts and lamps paid for with a combination of energy grant funds, rebates from Puget Sound Energy and school district funds.
Voters will have a chance to cast their ballots in a Feb. 9 special election on a pair of levies for the Tahoma School District.
First is the educational and operational programs levy, which accounts for about 20 percent of the district’s annual budget.
A new decade has brought new faces to the Maple Valley City Council with Councilwoman Erin Weaver and Councilman Bill Allison.
With just a pair of meetings under their belts, Weaver and Allison both said the transition is going smoothly so far, and they’re both looking forward to tackling a number of issues and challenges the city is facing alongside their fellow council members.
The Covington City Council stayed on the steady course Tuesday by re-electing Mayor Margaret Harto and Mayor Pro Tem Jeff Wagner.
Harto was nominated by Wagner and unanimously elected by the members.
Covington’s form of government is council-manger with the mayor and mayor pro tem elected every two years following the November general election. The mayor and mayor pro tem are selected from within the ranks of the council and elected by the members.
A Maple Valley police officer was hit by a car during the investigation of an apparent kidnapping yesterday. The officer was transported to Harborview Medical Center.
Jan. 11
MACED: 16200 block of Southeast 256th Street. While sitting in her car in the parking lot of Foss Market a woman was assaulted by a man who doused her in the face with pepper spray.
Maple Valley Fire and Life Safety and the Maple Valley Community Emergency Response Team or CERT has partnered with King County/Land Resources Division to have sandbags available if flooding was to occur in the Maple Valley area.
According to a press release from the Washington State Patrol, King County holiday enforcement team successfully concluded Sunday with zero fatality collisions on King County highways throughout the 2009 holiday season.
The Green River bridge was restricted to one lane Monday morning and construction crews were on the scene, but the bad dreams of the bridge closing will not be returning according to the state Department of Transportation.
The Maple Valley Rotary will have two guest speakers at the next two Friday meetings.
At the Friday, Jan. 15 meeting, state Rep. Jay Rodne, R, North Bend, will be the featured speaker.
Every school in the Kent School District has events scheduled for the upcoming weeks and months to honor Dr. Martin Luther King in celebration of the holiday that bears his name.
Provide annual maintenance on smoke alarms by vacuuming them and changing the batteries, including those hard wired into the house electrical system.