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Education bills alive in Legislature
By Kylee Zabel WNPA Olympia Bureau With the state Supreme Court’s McCleary decision mandating full funding for education by 2018 and policy bills out of the way, Washington lawmakers have…
Discussion of school’s fate, budget cuts continues
The Eatonville School Board is about a month away from a possible decision to close Columbia Crest Elementary School, most likely forever. That and other potential actions to improve the…
Four ‘sovereign citizens’ convicted
A Spanaway man is among four people who were convicted this month in federal court of a variety of crimes as part of the so-called “sovereign citizen” movement. Juries at…
AmeriCorps, Northwest Trek good match
They came from afar and conquered plenty. In just over a month, a team of nine AmeriCorps volunteers built a rock wall, replaced old fence railings with new ones, cleared…
Public health programs facing cuts
Some Pierce County health services may be trimmed or shut down by federal budget cuts. Tacoma-Pierce County Health Department is facing a budget cut of more than $1.6 million because…
Daffodil float relies on donations
Fund-raising and brainstorming have begun for Eatonville’s community float in the 80th annual Daffodil Festival Grand Floral Parade. As in past years, community members are banding to make the parade…
1,311 steps for charity
As the team from Fire District 23 arrived at the Columbia Center in Seattle March 10 for the annual Scott Firefighter Stairclimb, reality hit them. “It was an eye-opening experience,”…
Superintendent candidates (one from Norway) down to six soon
Twenty people have applied to be Eatonville School District’s next superintendent, but the field is expected to be much smaller by this weekend. The list of applicants – 16 of…
Fire destroys Ashford home, kills dogs
A home in the Ashford area was destroyed Monday in a fire that took the lives of six dogs belonging to the resident. The fire at 55514 315th Ave. E.…
Local Catholics exult over new pope
Catholic churches in Eatonville and the Graham area joined fellow Catholics around the world in marking the selection of a new pope last week. Jorge Mario Bergoglio, a former archbishop…
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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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