PIERCE COUNTY — Pierce County has issued a draft Comprehensive Plan update package and invites the community to learn more about such topics as land use, transportation and regional parks at a series of open houses. “This is the community’s opportunity to learn how Pierce County will deal with growth in the unincorporated area over…
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Weekend weather warning – April 11
From Pierce County Emergency Management: A strong cold front will sweep across western Washington tonight. In addition to creating gusty winds, this front will usher in a colder air mass. Snow levels will be in the 2000 to 2500 foot range during the day Saturday. This means that the heavier showers or any thunderstorms that…
Pierce County CASA Program participates in Pinwheels for Prevention campaign
Watch for silver and blue pinwheels to appear around Tacoma and Pierce County. For the second year Pierce County’s Court Appointed Special Advocate (CASA) Program is planting pinwheels around town during April, which is National Child Abuse Prevention Month. The blue pinwheel has become a symbol for the happy, healthy, and carefree childhood every child deserves. There…
Pierce County opens application window for Historic Preservation Grant Program
Pierce County Landmarks and Historic Preservation Commission has opened the application process for the 2016 Preservation Grant Program. Grant requests can be made for historic preservation or history-related project proposals. For stabilization, restoration, or rehabilitation of Certified Local Government (CLG) register-listed buildings or structures, the maximum request is $15,000. For photographic/document preservation, historic markers, history…
Where We are Going & What We Need to Get There
From: Paul Pastor – Pierce County Sheriff We recently held our Sheriff’s Department Awards Ceremony for 2015 honoring those who have performed with special distinction over the past year. We honored 69 of our employees for valor, for life saving and for meritorious actions on behalf of the community. We also honored six citizens for…
Navigating your county government – from Jim McCune
[Editor note: the following is from an email County Councilman Jim McCune put out otday. It has a lot of helpful citizen information so we decided to post if for you.] Our daily lives can be complicated enough, then you get a postcard or an e-mail from a government agency (federal, state or local) seeking…
Editorial: Graham Community Plan update
By David M. Friscia Bottom up Growth Management at work in Pierce County Bloated “Community” Plan Rubber Stamped By the Graham Advisory Commission At the 6 PM Tuesday March 24 Graham Advisory Commission meeting, the Chair of the Graham Advisory Commission was in such a hurry to get a positive vote on the County Staff’s…
County unemployment in Washington State
Unemployment figures were released this week by county. The data is below.
The Updated Comprehensive Plan is Now Ready for Review
A draft of Pierce County’s Comprehensive Plan update is available. You can view the draft and see the current list of opportunities for participating in this process on the County’s website, http://www.piercecountywa.org/compplan. You are invited to review and comment on the Draft Plan using the Public Comment Form or by sending an e-mail or letter…
Section of 72nd Street East closed March 28-29 for vault installation
72nd Street East between Canyon Road East and 66th Avenue East will be closed from 7 a.m. Saturday, March 28 to 7 p.m. Sunday, March 29 while crews install pipes under the road for a new stormwater filter vault. The vault will remove contaminants from stormwater runoff before it enters Rody Creek. The closure will not impact local…
Annual county roadside herbicide applications start March 30
Pierce County roadsides will get their annual makeover this spring and summer. An initial application of herbicides to combat weeds along road shoulders will start March 30, and continue through June. Targeted noxious weeds and brush control applications will occur through the end of November as needed. Only federal- and state-approved herbicides are used. Workers…
Frederickson Meeting on transportation Mar 21
This is your friendly reminder about Saturday’s meeting. Bring your Frederickson transportation questions for the guest speaker. Hope to see you at 9 AM, @ Christ Christian Baptist Church, 8016 176th St. E. The Guest Speaker for our March 21st meeting will be Letticia Neal, the Section Manager of Pierce County’s Transportation Improvement Department. She…
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