Submitted by Clover Park Rotary. King 5 News visited Lakewood’s South Sound Wildlife area to feature the ongoing work of Clover Park Rotary and the Northwest Youth Corp. Thanks to an Urban Forestry Grant, Clover Park Rotary was able to have a crew of young college age students from the NW Youth Corps onsite for […]
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FREE Trees – 10,000 Trees for the Pierce County Community
Submitted by Sally Larson of the Tahoma Audubon Society & the Chambers Bay Women’s Club. Join together with Tahoma Audubon to give nature its best hope. Tahoma Audubon is offering free bare root native trees to the Pierce County community. Native trees are important for better health, water conservation, soil enrichment and provides a home, […]
January 2024 Business Showcase: Veterans Roofing
Veterans Roofing started in Lakewood 14 years ago, but owner Jose Gonzales is a life-long Lakewood resident. He graduated from Clover Park School District schools and chose to return to Lakewood to start his business. An Army veteran, Gonzales wanted to name his company something that reflected not only his values and experience, but those […]
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 […]
Through fresh eyes
Pierce County Executive, Bruce Dammeier announcement. To start with, this blog is not being written by Chat GPT or any artificial intelligence (AI) – and it took me considerably longer to write than last week’s blog by Brian Hardtke! And I am not even writing it from Pierce County. I am in Austin, Texas as […]
A balancing act
Pierce County Executive, Bruce Dammeier announcement. This week I presented my (final) biennial budget to the Council. Months of data gathering, analysis, presentations, debate, and decisions ended for me and the Finance team, and the process now moves to the members of our legislative branch. For the first time, the priorities for how we allocated […]
University Place Deputy K9 Capture?
At 08:25 am, on August 18 our University Place deputies responded to a call of a stolen vehicle at the Cemetery at 9200 Chambers Creek Way. As the Sergeant was getting close a Lakewood and Steilacoom Officer had arrived as the vehicle started to leave. The Sergeant was able to pull over and deploy his […]
Spaceworks Tacoma Seeking Creatives to Join Public Arts Programs
Spaceworks Tacoma has put out a call for artists to participate in its Public Arts Programs. Applications are currently open and are due by 11:59 P.M. on September 4, 2023. Artists can apply by visiting https://www.spaceworkstacoma.com/apply-to-streetside-artscapes/ Spaceworks is seeking visual artists from the Pacific Northwest who Any individual artist or artist team in the Pacific Northwest […]
Get Lost
Pierce County Executive, Bruce Dammeier announcement. While I love our community year-round, there is little doubt that our spectacular outdoors shine especially bright in the summer! There is so much to do and enjoy! My summer weekends are packed with people and activity, and I wish I could fit even more in. Summer weather […]