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Don’t let the flu bug bite
Flu season is here. The Tacoma-Pierce County Health Department offers the following advice on avoding the bug: Flu viruses are constantly changing. Each flu season, different flu viruses can spread,…
Neiditz choice for 9-1-1 director
Andrew Neiditz, the city manager for Lakewood since 2005, is expected to become the head of Pierce County’s new 9-1-1 emergency communications system. A panel of police and fire managers…
Charges filed against Graham horse owner
The owner of horses removed from a Graham farm by authorities who said the animals were living in unhealthy surroundings was charged today with 10 counts of animal cruelty. Pierce…
Bethel School Board getting new member
A former member is rejoining the Bethel School Board. Warren Smith was chosen by the board Tuesday over four other candidates for an appointment to fill a seat vacated by…
Memories of loved ones up in lights
Memories are burning bright once again on the Tree of Honor. The tree, which grows beside the Welcome to Eatonville sign at Nevitt Point on the Washington Avenue entrance to…
Utility customers getting a break
The town of Eatonville is giving its utility customers some relief on their water, sewer, garbage and electricity bills. The Town Council has approved lower utility percentages while also increasing…
Dead fish will fly
You can be one of the people doing the tossing when the Nisqually Stream Stewards’ first public salmon carcass tossing of the season is held this Saturday in Eatonville at…
School bus drivers helping needy families
Bus drivers in the Bethel School District will be collecting donations of holiday gifts and food for needy families Dec. 15 at four locations. The “Stuff the Bus” drive will…
Park leader feels ‘lucky and grateful’
By Pat Jenkins The Dispatch Randy King was ready to be superintendent of Mount Rainier National Park. From his boyhood in an outdoors-oriented family and his college job working in…
Bethel board close to getting new member
The Bethel School Board plans to pick its newest member Dec. 11. The board has scheduled a public meeting for Dec. 10 to interview the five applicants for a vacancy…
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Community remembers 9/11 victims and rolls up sleeves
By Nancy Ardmore Contributing writer Last Saturday morning at 9 o’clock, while 178 people from the Eatonville area looked on, a special U.S. flag was raised on the Eatonville High School flag pole. What made this flag special was that the stripes on the flag contained all of the names of the victims who died [...]
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