The Lakewood City Council will hold a Study Session on July 8 (7 PM). Access the agenda and access instructions here.
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Lakewood City Manager July 5 Info Bulletin
Read the Lakewood City Manager’s (John Caulfield) July 5 Info Bulletin to the Mayor and City Council online by clicking here.
New Downtown Pride-Themed Mural Celebrates Stormwater Pollution Prevention
TACOMA, Wash. – The City of Tacoma’s new Public Works Artist-in-Residence, Natalie Dupille, with support from the Environmental Services Department and the Community and Economic Development Department’s Arts and Cultural Vitality Division, has created a new mural located at the corner of South 9th Street and Pacific Avenue and South 9th and A streets. The […]
Let’s Talk! – Leave the Trenches
What a prompt for pondering and discussion from my friend Tyrean Martinson’s book – Pocket Sized Jumble Writing 500 Prompts – this time, right? A lot of us know trenches only from books or from the movies – and thank goodness for that! My Master’s thesis in Literary Science was about WW I literature by […]
Letter: The Mountain is Yours. Go and Take It.
There was a time in Biblical history when in order to establish more property for a people in which to live they were given the mountain and told to go and take it. There was a time in our country’s history when “in order to establish a more perfect union” the Founding Fathers envisioned an […]
CPSD Superintendent Banner Earns Inaugural State Learning from Leaders Award
LAKEWOOD, Wash.—Clover Park School District Superintendent Ron Banner received the inaugural Learning from Leaders Award from the Washington Association of School Administrators (WASA) for his outstanding leadership of the Superintendent’s Youth Advisory Council (SYAC) and efforts to elevate student voice. This is the first year this award has been given and recognizes a WASA member’s […]
Lakewood’s Gabriel Zapf Named to Aurora University Spring 2024 Dean’s List
Aurora University has named Gabriel Zapf of Lakewood, to the Dean’s List for the spring 2024 semester. Zapf is majoring in Biology. The Dean’s List recognizes full-time undergraduate students who have earned a 3.6 grade-point average or higher. Founded in 1893, Aurora University is a four-year, private, nonprofit, accredited higher education institution located on a […]
New trustee, Lauren Adler, appointed to Pierce College Board
Lauren Adler, a former Pierce College student, lifetime resident of Puyallup and accomplished government affairs leader, is proud to join Pierce College’s Board of Trustees. A former President of the Associated Student Body of the Puyallup campus, Adler attended Pierce College from 2010 until 2012. Since then, Adler has established herself as a transformational […]
Across the Fence: Wunderbar
Even though you might not use the Germanism in the English language that I chose to discuss today, you will probably immediately understand its meaning. Wunderbar (pronounce: ‘voondah-bar), just like the German term wundervoll (pronounce: ‘voondah-foll), is translated as wonderful. There is no big surprise in the similarity of the words in German and in […]