Buzz Brake and Steilacoom’s Dieter Mielimonka study the cedar bolt before splitting more shakes. Re-roofing the Wagon Shop at the Steilacoom Historical Museum July 19 won’t result in a commercial roofer showing up and slapping new shingles onto the historic building. Instead, this historic structure will get cedar shakes from ancient wood hand-split by hundreds […]
July 4 ice cream social in Steilacoom
If you like ice cream, the Steilacoom Historical Museum Association (SHMA) has a special July 4th offer for you! The association will hold an ice cream social on Independence Day, starting at 11 am and continuing until 3:30 pm. The ice cream social will be held at the historic Bair Drug Store in the heart […]
Concert at Steilacoom’s Pioneer Park
Thank you Dr. Kelly
Longtime Lakewood family practice physician Dr. Michael John Kelly has decided to leave his medical practice in Lakewood. He closes his office on Custer Rd. by the end of June. According to a letter the doctor sent to all his patients, Dr. Kelly opened his local office 20 years ago, moving here from a practice […]
Robinson retiring July 31 from CPTC
Tony Robinson, vice president for operations and facilities at Clover Park Technical College, will end a 35-year career at the Lakewood college at the end of July. He started at the school when it was part of the Clover Park School District. The college executive was born in England and came to the United States […]
Design Day for UP Playground
University Place organizations kicked off efforts to build the Playground by the Sound at a design Day Thursday. The activity was capped off with a community celebration and public showing of the preliminary design completed by a Leathers & Associates designer.
Changes coming to Steilacoom PO
Changes are coming to the Steilacoom Post Office but according to Tacoma Postmaster Robert Galtrude town residents shouldn’t notice the differences. Before the end of summer, Galtrude plans to move the four Steilacoom carrier routes out of the Steilacoom office and into the Lakewood office. He indicated the Steilacoom retail operation including sale of postal […]
Business women to learn about cargo handling at June 18 meeting
Do you know what a straddle carrier is? Got any idea the dimensions of a container carried on those cargo ships? Can you imagine how many half gallons of ice cream a cargo container could hold? Evette Mason from the Port of Tacoma will provide answers to these questions plus many more during the June […]
Fun in the sun
Hot summer-type weather has brought large crowds out to the mouth of Chambers Creek in Steilacoom for a variety of water fun. The Chambers Creek Park includes a trail along the creek and groups of young people have developed jumps and other facilities to enhance water activities. Nearby Sunnyside Beach, also in Steilacoom, has also […]