A free disaster preparedness class is being hosted at Tacoma Community College and is open to the public and business community on January 31 and February 1, 2024. This course is designed to teach and encourage community members impacted by a disaster to prepare, take preservation actions and perform, as appropriate, light search and rescue response […]
A Christmas Carol – Harlequin Review
A CHRISTMAS CAROL by Charles Dickens, adapted and directed by Aaron Lamb. There are three important things to remember when it comes to inviting an audience to attend any theatrical adaptation of the 1843 story that taught the world the meaning of Christmas: First, stay true to the text as written by Charles Dickens, including […]
Author Alix Christie to Join December Art History Book Club Meeting
The Tacoma Community College Art History Book Club’s pick for December is “Gutenberg’s Apprentice,” and author Alix Christie will join the virtual discussion at noon on Dec. 6. Art History Book Club meetings are held in The Gallery (Building 4 at TCC’s Tacoma campus) and online on the first Wednesday of each month. Email […]
Tacoma Creates Expands Community Vibrancy
TACOMA, Wash. – Tacoma Creates funded 56 organizations whose missions are to advance arts, culture, heritage, and/or science in the 2022-2023 funding cycle. With $4.5 million in funding distributed through a competitive process, those 56 organizations provided more than 1,100 cultural programs and events for the community. This was the third funding cycle for Tacoma Creates, which […]
City Brings Home Top Honors in Television Programming Awards
The City of U.P. Communications team of Linda Seesz and Amanda Kleber, along with Pierce County TV members Dave Kellman and Peter Gudmonson, racked up scores of awards from the National Association of Telecommunications Officers and Advisors in the Government Programming category. They received an Award of Excellence and Award of Distinction for this video on the […]
Six daily roundtrip trains will operate between Seattle and Portland
Just in time for the holidays, WSDOT and ODOT are starting two additional Amtrak Cascades daily roundtrips between Seattle and Portland. Beginning Monday, Dec. 11, more trains will run in both directions – for a total of 12 trains every day between the two most popular cities on the route. The new schedule will see trains departing […]
Obituary Notices – November 30, 2023
Mountain View Funeral Home: George Trachier. Powers Funeral Home: Ilene Edith Whitman. Hill Funeral Home: Michael Shestopal Jr. Gaffney Funeral Home: Donald Abe Myers.
A Festive Holiday Celebration with The Midwinter Revels
Submitted by Puget Sound Revels, Tacoma Creates. Tacoma, WA – ‘The Midwinter Revels‘ is already flashing up on the marquee at Tacoma’s historic Rialto Theatre, promising a stunning spectacle of song, dance and holiday fun for people of all ages. This December, the show transports us to a medieval village in England along the Silk […]
Listening to Constituents
Submitted by Claudia Riiff Finseth. Apparently I am not done with the subject of public comments at our Pierce County government’s public meetings, after the LUAC meeting in Parkland-Spanaway-Midland on the 15th of November, 2023. Blame it on Arlie DeJarnett, my high school civics teacher. Mr. DeJarnett was also a Representative to the Washington State […]