Marisol McDonald Doesn’t Match and The First Rule of Punk have each earned a 2021 Azia Books Award. Picture Book Category winner Marisol McDonald Doesn’t Match is authored by Monica Brown, illustrated by Sara Palacios, and published by Children’s Book Press. Young Reader Category winner The First Rule of Punk is written by Celia C. […]
Letter: Painting My Front Door
Submitted by Aaron Arkin. For 24 years, the front door to my little house has been white: much like many of the other front doors around town. But in my strolls through the neighborhood, I began to notice other front door colors, and how they seemed to enhance a home’s presentation from the street. Thus […]
Local students named to Whitworth University Provost’s Honor Roll
The following undergraduate students have achieved Provost’s Honor Roll status for the Spring 2021 semester at Whitworth University. To be named to the list, undergraduate students must maintain a grade-point average of 3.75 or better during the semester. DuPont Michael Martin Lakewood Samantha Nelson Ashley Suhre University Place Lauren Arkills Located in Spokane, Wash., Whitworth […]
PSE forms Equity Advisory Group as it develops its Clean Energy Implementation Plan
Puget Sound Energy has convened an Equity Advisory Group (EAG) that will advise the state’s largest utility on its Clean Energy Implementation Plan (CEIP) set by the state’s groundbreaking climate legislation passed in 2019– the Washington Clean Energy Transformation Act. The implementation plan is the company’s four-year roadmap that will outline clean electricity targets, actions […]
Amazon Flex didn’t deliver as promised, and now must pay
“Were you an Amazon Flex driver from late 2016 to August 2019? If so, you may be able to get the tips you earned that Amazon previously withheld. Several months ago, we told you the FTC filed a case against Amazon for keeping $61.7 million in tips drivers made while delivering for the Amazon Flex […]
Obituary Notices – June 12, 2021
Edwards Memorial Funerals Homes, Chapels and Crematories: Christa Zwicknagel Anderson Miraldi. Mountain View Funeral Home: Kazui Miller; Maurie Nagel. Fir Lane Memorial Park: Victoria Lynn Cronk.
It’s Official. Film, Art, Book Festival October 8-10
Submitted by Bob Lawrence. The 9th annual Lakewood Lakewood Film, Art, Book Festival is scheduled for the second weekend in October 2021 – 8th, 9th and 10th at the McGavick Center at Clover Park Technical College. Our last annual festival was everything we hoped for: hundreds of visitors, special guest presentations, 39 authors from 6 […]
Give Your Input for Transportation Planning
Submitted by League of Women Voters of Tacoma-Pierce County. Vision 2050, the regional growth management guidance for King, Pierce, Snohomish and Kitsap Counties produced by the Puget Sound Regional Council (PSRC), anticipates an increase of more than one-third of the current population by 2050 and a substantial increase in jobs. How should our transportation systems […]
Local students named to Marquette University’s spring 2021 Dean’s List
Local students have been named to the Dean’s List for the spring 2021 semester at Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. DuPont Roman de Guia is pursuing a Bachelor of Science in Exercise Physiology. Steilacoom, WA Elizabeth Still is pursuing a Bachelor of Arts in Criminology and Law Studies. To make the Dean’s List, students must […]