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Gridders girding for first kickoffs
High school football teams are one week into their pre-season practices for the 2012 campaign that sees its first action next week. Graham-Kapowsin, Eatonville and Bethel put on the pads…
Fire levy defeated
Fire District 23′s levy in the primary election has gone down to defeat, but all is not necessarily lost. The district’s commissioners already plan to re-run the funding measure in…
Concert helps fight hunger
A free concert this Saturday at Glacier View Park in Eatonville will benefit the Eatonville food bank. Audience donations of non-perishable food and money will support efforts to meet local…
Barbed or barbless hooks? That’s the question
HOOK AND FUR By Bob Brown When it comes to barbless fishing hooks, there seems to be two major chains of thoughts regarding their usage. One group of fishermen believes…
Boeing encourages Pierce County connection
Boeing had some good news to share during the first Pierce County Aerospace Summit. A top official of the aircraft manufacturer predicted the global market will need 34,000 new airplanes…
Officials: Too much food going to landfill
Nearly one-third of Pierce County’s waste is food, making it the largest category of material being dumped at the county landfill. That’s the word from county officials who are taking…
New aid vehicle with federal help
By Pat Jenkins The Dispatch Eatonville Fire Department is in the running for federal money to buy a new emergency medical aid vehicle. The agency has applied for a federal…
Dispatch editorial: And the votes are in
Voters made some interesting and, in many cases, predictable decisions in the primary election that drew to a close last week. In the predictable column were the advancements to the…
Pierce County case highlights need for water pollution laws
By Billy Frank Jr. For many years we have said that enforcing existing state and federal pollution laws is one of the most effective actions we can take to recover…
Work that body
A group of Eatonville High School student-athletes have spent the summer getting in shape with a trainer who saw fitness in a new light after having a baby. Twice a…
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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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