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Obituary Notices – May 24, 2024
Fir Lane Memorial Park: Steven A. Goings; Willle C. Lee; Harold J. McKendry. Powers Funeral Home: Carlina Serrano Tadena; Michelle Renee Steen. Edwards Memorial: Maria Alma Flores Yamat. Mountain View Funeral Home: Kristi Ann Parsons.
Letter: Housing densities in Lakewood and a proposed tax incentive for multifamily housing
I’m way overdue on posting an update to an issue I raised here in April. Thanks for your patience. This has to do with the proposal to create financial incentives for developers to build apartments and condos in the pink spaces you see in the map. Here’s what’s going on: – A divided City Council […]
The Lakewood Elks Memorial Weekend Upscale Resale
Submitted by Ciara Musgrove, Lakewood Elks #2388. Huge Upscale Resale Memorial Day Weekend. Open to the public from 12 pm-5 pm, Friday and Saturday, May 24-25. Prices starting at $5. Designer Wear, shoes and hand bags. Home decor, jewelry, heels, shoes and boots! Men, women and children clothes. The Lakewood Elks #2388 is located at […]
Partners for Parks campaign tops $2 million in Community Support
LAKEWOOD — Partners for Parks is pleased to announce they have received a $350,000 capital grant from the Norcliffe Foundation. Partners for Parks is deeply grateful for this extraordinary grant and vote of confidence taking fundraising for the H-Barn Project at Fort Steilacoom Park to more than $2 million in gifts and multi-year pledges. […]
My Career: Pierce College alumna turns her experience into thriving career
In 2015, Shontieka Adeogun was a student at Clover Park Technical College studying nursing. She’d already finished earning her GED from CPTC but was starting to feel like nursing wasn’t for her. That’s when she was introduced to Pierce College’s emergency management program. “When I started in emergency management, I had no idea my […]
Prom and Circumstances at Tacoma Musical Playhouse
Peg and I had no idea what we were in for at Tacoma Musical Playhouse and their latest production “Prom.” We weren’t completely blind. I had checked some details about its Broadway run. I’ve seen enough to know it would be both funny and meaningful. As soon as I opened up the program, I knew […]
Public Hearing: Multifamily Tax Exemption/Residential Target Area
The City Council of the City of University Place will hold a Public Hearing on Monday, June 3, 2024, as part of its regular meeting beginning at 6:30 p.m., to consider amendments to the Northeast Business District Residential Target Area relating to exemptions from property taxation for a new or rehabilitated multi-family housing, under Chapter […]
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