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Story time with a princess
Daffodil Festival princesses spent Feb. 23 reading stories to children at Pierce County Library System branch libraries. The participating princesses at the branches in Eatonville, Graham and elswewhere included Annelise…
Dawson’s a Viking
Kahlil Dawson, a two-way all-league performer for Graham-Kapowsin High School’s football team last season, is taking his talents to Portland State University as a defensive back. Dawson signed a national…
Leonard Iverson
Leonard Iverson passed away on Feb. 16, 2013. Services will be held Saturday, March 2, 11 a.m. at Olympia-Lacey Church of God, 5005 Lacey Blvd. SE., Olympia. There is a…
Katherine Wittwer
Katherine Wittwer, 94, passed away February 14, 2013 in Graham, Wash. Katherine was born to Frank and Katherine Mettler, December 20, 1918, in Everson, Wash. She graduated Valedictorian from Morton…
Otto Sorensen
Over 40 years of owning Sorensen’s Graham Garage & Towing, Otto B. Sorensen passed away at Good Samaritan Hospital on February 14, 2013. The family would like to give a…
Sequestration’s 5 percent hit on Mount Rainier
By David Graves As we rapidly approach the March 1 edge of the fiscal cliff, or government sequestration, details about how these across-the-board cuts could affect our national parks are…
Addresses left off property tax envelopes
Pierce County property tax statements that were mailed earlier this month were missing the county’s return address on the payment stubs. Not to worry, though, according to officials. The envelopes…
Becker part of tourism and trade committee
State Sen. Randi Becker has been named to the Legislative Committee on Economic Development and International Relations, a 13-member state panel headed by Lieutenant Governor Brad Owen and promoting Washington…
Teachers succeeding in push for high professional marks
For the fourth consecutive year, Washington has the second-highest number of new National Board Certified teachers, thanks partly to eight teachers in the Bethel School District who reached the professional…
Bethel expanding all-day kindergarten
All-day kindergarten, described by officials as a key to early-childhood education that leads to better students in later years, is expanding in the Bethel School District. The program will be…
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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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