Today (March 28, 2024), in two separate actions, the Sound Transit Board approved an array of projects to provide better access to the South Tacoma and Lakewood Sounder stations. The projects include new station-supportive bicycle infrastructure, sidewalks and ADA improvements. Some of the highlights, developed in conjunction with the cities of Tacoma and Lakewood, are: […]
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Lakewood City Manager March 29 Info Bulletin
Read the Lakewood City Manager’s (John Caulfield) March 29 Info Bulletin to the Mayor and City Council online by clicking here.
Clover Park School District March 2024 Board Review
March 11 Regular Meeting During its March 11 board meeting, the Clover Park School District (CPSD) Board of Directors celebrated Classified Employees Week and heard reports from Deputy Superintendent Brian Laubach and Gravelly Lake K-12 Academy Principal Venetia Willis-Holbrook. More than 700 classified employees contribute greatly to the education of CPSD’s more than 12,000 students. The […]
The Lakewood City Council April 1 Meeting Agenda
The Lakewood City Council will hold a Regular Meeting on April 1 (7 PM). Access the agenda and access instructions here.
Public Notice on FY 2024 Annual Action Plan for CDBG and HOME Funding
30-Day Public Comment Period (March 29 – April 29, 2024) FY 2024 Annual Action Plan for CDBG and HOME funding The City of Lakewood, as part of the Tacoma-Lakewood HOME Consortium, plans to adopt its 2024 Annual Action Plan outlining spending plans for federally funded housing, community and economic development, and public services activities. The Plan […]
City of Lakewood responds to inaccurate information about Edgewater Park Master Plan update
Earlier this week a King 5 news story about the work the city is doing to improve Edgewater Park highlighted the city’s legal acquisition of a piece of private property to improve the park for public use. Specifically, the focus was on a court ruling allowing the City of Lakewood to use eminent domain to […]
Let’s Talk! – Wishing the Earth Would Swallow Me Up
Have you switched off your screens, and are you ready to ponder the above prompt? Wait – didn’t we already ponder something very similar at the very beginning of this column, “Let’s Talk!”? Something about a moment that defines awkwardness? Let’s recapitulate that I defined it as the moment when we get caught at something […]
Custer Elementary School: Enhancement versus Education
Submitted by John Arbeeny. Each week as a public service Lakewood CARES will be providing the real academic situation in response to schools highlighted in The Suburban Times by Clover Park School District (CPSD). This is data you will not find elsewhere on the CPSD website, board meeting agendas or “Inside Schools”; however it is […]
Letter: Before Sunrise, That First Resurrection Morning
It was the fastest quarter mile ever run in the history of women’s track. And it happened that very first Resurrection morning. Just tenths-of-a-second over 00:45 it still stands. Had Sports Illustrated been published then they’d have made a front cover. Theirs was a miracle, a true-life made-for-TV triumph long, long “before science invaded every […]