Puget Sound Energy announcement. As the weather gets colder, Puget Sound Energy’s (PSE) community team set out to help make winter a little warmer across the communities PSE serves. Through PSE’s 2023 Warm Winter campaign, 75 nonprofits spanning 10 counties received contributions totaling $200,000. See the complete list here. These funds support three critical components of […]
Online Open House for South Tacoma Station Access Improvements project launches
An online open house is now available to learn more about planned improvements around the South Tacoma Sounder station to increase accessibility to and from trains and around the area. The online open house provides information on proposed improvements (subject to refinement or change) and asks for public feedback on improvements to prioritize. Go to the open house […]
Obituary Notices – December 14, 2023
New Tacoma Cemeteries and Funeral Home: Bobby Lee Lott Jr. Mountain View Funeral Home: Evelyn Age; Alexandra Rose Barnum; Oliver Cardwell Jr; Lavon Hall; Sebastian Anthony James. Powers Funeral Home: Donald Joseph Auvil.
DTNW’s Celebrates 35th Year with Magical Nutcracker December 16, 17
Submitted by B. J. Coleman. Celebrating their 35th Anniversary, DANCE THEATRE NORTHWEST will charm children and family audiences with magical performances of the timeless holiday production THE NUTCRACKER. Storyteller, Ardythe Fleener, will set the stage for each scene, taking us into the living room of the Stahlbaum house with its enormous Christmas tree, into Clara’s […]
Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer
Very at ease, wearing a smile in a Seattle Seahawks T-shirt, Chris Serface welcomed a sold out audience to “Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer.” He had a great delivery on three Rudolph specialty Drinks: The Bumble, The Rudolph, and the Fireball. The Rudolph, with a combination of vodka and cranberry, kept calling to me, but I […]
THE TRESCOTT FILES: Perspectives on the Sound of Silence
The “sound of silence” might sound to some, in the same sense as the Procol Harem song, “Whiter Shade of Pale,” a play on words. But if you’ve ever been in a recording studio with no ventilation fans and experienced the hearing of nothing, then you know the sound of silence. Sometimes you can experience […]
Advent Calendar December 14: Telling Stories
Nothing is more relaxing and creating ties than doing things together – as a family, as friends, as partners in life. One of the coziest is sitting together and telling stories. Whether it is sharing the background of family traditions or talking about an especially funny or tense Christmas, about your favorite things to do […]
Detour routes for Lakewood road closures
The city saw its second road closure go into effect Dec. 11, 2023, for its latest road improvement project. The closure impacts Hipkins Road SW between Steilacoom Boulevard and its intersection with Angle Lane SW. A detour routes drivers from 104th Street SW, to the open section of Hipkins Road SW, to Angle Lane SW, to […]
In the Book Nook with … Tessa Floreano
Author Tessa Floreano, who works as a content strategist on large corporate websites, lives on Ames Lake near the farming community of Carnation, WA. She has been writing since 2009 and seriously since 2014. Her first book was published with The Wild Rose Press in 2022. Her 1920s romantic mystery, “Slain over Spumoni,” won First […]