The City of Lakewood, WA City Council will be holding a public hearing regarding obligation of American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) funds on September 3, 2024 at 7:00 pm. All persons may submit written comments about the amendments or testify in-person or virtually during the public hearing. HEARING DATE: Tuesday, September 3, 2024TIME: 7:00 P.M.PLACE: Lakewood […]
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Clover Park Rotary Annual Golf Tournament posts another success
Clover Park Rotary (Lakewood) held their 7th annual golf tournament on Saturday August 10th at the American Lake Hospital Golf Course. 108 golfers joined together on a beautiful Saturday, in support of the American Lake Veterans Golf Course and numerous charities supported by Clover Park, including: South Sound Wildlife Park on Phillips Rd, Children of […]
Pierce College’s Director of International Education selected for AIEA Presidential Fellowship
Pierce College’s Executive Director of International Education Cindy Schaarschmidt has been named a 2024-2025 Association of International Education Administrators (AIEA) Presidential Fellow. “It’s an honor to be selected for the AIEA presidential fellowship program,” Schaarschmidt said. “I look forward to working alongside such an accomplished group of fellow international education leaders this year and learning […]
Letter: Where Robert Frost and I Part Company
In Robert Frost’s “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening”, there is a lone wagon driver who pauses at dusk in his travel to watch snow falling in the woods. That part I get. To be where beauty abounds, where quiet pervades, where silence is broken by nothing at all because it’s just you, no […]
Lakewood Playhouse Flex Passes On Sale
Flex Passes are now available for productions in our 86th Season. You can use the 5 show pass for individual performances throughout the season, in whatever manner you see fit. Only $130 for five shows. The five plays in our 2024/2025 season all center the theme of building community in stories of belonging, understanding, acceptance and hope. Stephen Schwartz’s lively and […]
Lakewood Water District – Food Drive Update
Submitted by Lakewood Water District. We are halfway through August and are excited to report that we have already filled five boxes for the Emergency Food Network. Thank you to our customers who have donated! We are collecting donations until the end of August and we need your help to fill five more to reach […]
Letter: Just Walking Each Other Home
Seven years ago yesterday my wife and I bought two of the remaining limited-time significantly discounted “America the Beautiful Lifetime National Parks and Federal Lands Pass” thinking not only was it a good deal (my wife was Dutch and therefore frugal and definitely the brains in the family), but also that we would together return […]
Lakewood Library is getting close to opening
In July, workers paved the parking lot, finished putting in the floors and ceiling, and installed windows, furniture, and shelves at the interim Lakewood Pierce County Library. This month, library staff members are preparing the library to open with books and materials, and computers. Check out the video below which highlights the interim library as library staff prepare to open the […]
Letter: When the Forest Weeps
There is such incredible beauty when the forest weeps. Though the far shore of the tiny high mountain lake had disappeared in the mist seen wafting down over the top of the ridge and descending wraith-like upon the little meadow, the near shore was resplendent in splashes of color dominated by beautiful blue lupin but […]