Submitted by Tim Marsh, Lakes High Class of 1966. It’s been more than 55 years since Nora McNerthney John was a Lakes High School student. She has never forgotten her favorite teacher at the school: Charles Croasdill. He taught her journalism classes and was adviser of the ‘Lakes Ledger’ student newspaper of which she was […]
FAB 2022 next 2023
Submitted by Bob Lawrence. The 10th annual FAB (film, art & book) festival just wrapped up for this year. Hundreds of visitors witnessed special guest presentations, musical performances, ballroom and ethnic dancing/instruction with active participation from our visitors, authors from 4 counties, over $2000 in prize money for the winning artists and 5 great films. […]
See Sayuri Fukuda work with our young artists
Hilltop Artists announcement. Sayuri Fukuda is our guest artist this October! Sayuri Fukuda was born in Ibaraki, Japan and graduated from the Joshibi University of Art and Design, Craft, Glass in Tokyo. After graduation, she worked as a glass blowing artist at Glass Studio Silica and as a studio assistant at the Uzawa Glass Studio. […]
Letter: Concern with Pierce County Village
Submitted by Penny Cooper Howard Friends of Spanaway Lake has worked hard to form a Lake Management District that the property owners approved… thereby taxing themselves, to work on water quality issue. The Pierce County Village project Pierce County Executive Bruce Dammeier recently introduced intends to add more septic systems that will directly feed into the lake than are […]
Bob Woodward in Tacoma
Tacoma Arts Live announcement. TACOMA, WASH.— Tacoma Arts Live presents Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist and bestselling author Bob Woodward – 50th Anniversary of Watergate on Sunday, November 13 at Tacoma’s Pantages Theater. Tickets start at $39 and are on sale now. With an illustrious career that has spanned reporting on ten presidents, Woodward’s work is as relevant today as […]
CPSD Staff Spotlight: Jessica Jorgensen
A Clover Park School District story. Our CPSD Staff Spotlight this week features Dower Elementary School counselor Jessica Jorgensen. Jessica joined the district as Dower’s school counselor 11 years ago. Both of her parents were elementary educators, and their work left a lasting impact on Jessica. “Seeing our life growing up, I knew I wanted […]
Say hello to Odin
Tacoma Police Department social media post. Meet one of our new K9’s in training, Odin, a 14-month-old male German Shepherd. Odin and his handler, Officer Johnson, are halfway through the 400 hours of training they will finish before taking the state test to become a certified generalist K9 team. Go Odin!
Lakewood Community Cleanup, Nov. 5-6
City of Lakewood social media post. Save the date: Lakewood Community Cleanup is Nov. 5-6, 8am to 2pm. This is for Lakewood residents only. Last car accepted 1:45pm. To keep things moving we’ll continue our 5 min unload time limit. See flier for what is accepted or not accepted. Or visit: cityoflakewood.us/refuse/#commun…
Pierce County COVID-19 data update: Cases, hospitalizations and deaths
Tacoma-Pierce County Health Department announcement. A data security breach at one of Washington’s hospital organizations continues to affect data on cases and associated hospitalizations and deaths. Today’s COVID-19 data is likely incomplete. It is not clear how long this will last. On October 25, our current COVID-19 7-day case rate per 100,000 is 54.4 for […]