Every year the Pierce County Council has meetings located in each Council District. These are typically evening meetings and are in addition to the regular Tuesday afternoon meetings of the Council. Coming up soon are these two in-district meetings: June 5, 2024Council District No. 7 In-District Council Meeting on Wednesday, June 5, 2024, at 6:00…
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A Tale of Two Wetland Specialists
by Claudia Finseth27 March, 2024 Last week the Tacoma News Tribune carried some interesting articles related to the Hearing Examiner meetings that had just wrapped up on the proposed use of the Spanaway Marsh for a high-density development. The plan is for a tiny home village for people experiencing chronic homelessness at the end of…
Frederickson Resource Fair, June 6
The Pierce County Thriving Together Resource Event is a free event that’s ideal for local small business owners and entrepreneurs to network and learn about free resources available to help businesses thrive in Pierce County. We’re sending you this information to make sure you know about the event and can help to share with your…
Conservation Futures Information Sessions
If you have an organization located in Pierce County, you may be eligible to sponsor or steward a conservation project through the Pierce County Conservation Futures program. The next application funding cycle begins in 2025, and we want to ensure that your community doesn’t miss the opportunity to participate! Conservation Futures strives to ensure a high quality…
Please, protect the water – a poem
TO THE HEARING EXAMINER Please, protect the water at the heart of our community—The Spanaway Marsh may mean little to some, but not to us. It is our arterial blood,our breath, our home. We are done with the hundred-year destructionof filled-in wetlands, re-routed streams,toxic human pollution and buildings too closeto these arteries of life. We are done with…
Saturday walk at Spanaway Marsh
By Marianne Lincoln Spanaway Concerned Citizens is raising money to fight a Pierce County Executive’s project to build a village of tiny homes to house homeless individuals with drug, alcohol and mental health problems. These are the hardest people to bring into a stable housing situation. There is a plan. (You can see it at…
Historical road from Nisqually to Spanueh Station
Historical information on Spanaway, Spanueh Station of the Puget Sound Agricultural Company, and native uses of the area Testimony for the Hearings Examiner on Pierce County Village, April 29, 2024 To local Indians, the area was referred to as “spáduwe” – “where [camas or fern] roots are plentiful”.[1] Multiple tribes used the area for hunting…
Village deadline for written comments April 22
Regarding the April 29 hearings on the Tiny Home Village, Pierce County Village, or whatever they are calling it this week…. All written comments & concerns should be submitted in writing to the Hearings Examiner by Monday April 22nd, for his review to: pchearingexaminer@piercecountywa.gov If you have no idea what I am talking about, read…
Advanced Air Mobility for new eVTOL craft
The era of George Jetson is beginning to arrive. The Federal Aviation Administration is starting discussion with states and local communities about how to safely bring these vehicles, Vertical Take Off and Landing (eVTOL) to our communities. We need to consider where they will land, a new invention called the Vertiport will need locations. Advance…
April 13 – South Sound Sustainability Expo
For anyone who has interest in ways to save energy, money and resources, this may be an very interesting event to attend. The South Sound Sustainability Expo is being held in Tacoma at the University of Washington Tacoma Campus from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. One of the participants is the Craft Supply Swap, hosted…
Planning your county – hearings April 2, 9, 11
The Planning Commission will hold a public hearing on the Draft Comprehensive Plan and Draft Capital Facilities Plan and Council Initiated Amendments over the course of three days. The hearing will be opened on April 2 at 9:30 a.m. it will be continued to April 9 at 9:30 a.m. and then to April 11 at 6:00 p.m. See below for ways to…
Blue Zones Project Parkland-Spanaway Announces New Partnership with Pierce County Parks
Spanaway, WA – [Monday March 18, 2024] – Blue Zones Project Parkland-Spanaway is thrilled to announce a groundbreaking partnership with Pierce County Parks, aimed at bringing transformative health and wellness programming to the local community. This exciting collaboration will kick off in April 2024 at Sprinker Recreation Center, offering a brand-new series called Blue Zones…
Pierce Prairie Post 