We are looking for creative and committed Parkland citizens to participate in the development of a community mural on the Parkland Post Office wall (located on the SE corner of the Garfield/C Street Intersection). We will be hosting a community forum on Tuesday, April 8 in the Garfield Book Company Community Room from 5:30-6:45pm. Please join…
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Wanted for Bank Robbery
From Crime Stoppers Wanted for Bank Robbery: Joseph Smith Pierce County Sheriff’s detectives need your help to locate bank robbery suspect Joseph Smith. A felony warrant has been issued for Smith’s arrest for two counts of Robbery in the 1st degree, one count of Attempted Robbery in the 1st degree, and one count of Theft…
Comprehensive Plan Update coming
Pierce County must review and update (if necessary) the Comprehensive Plan by June 30, 2015 The Pierce County Comprehensive Plan is an adopted policy document that guides County decisions related to growth and development in unincorporated Pierce County This planning document extends beyond land use patterns and permitted activity. It provides consistent policy direction for: Housing…
Happy 100th Parkland Light & Water!
On February 17, 1914, Parkland Light & Water was officially established. A group of folks from Pacific Lutheran University and forward thinking homemakers devised the idea of a mutual utility. This project was based on the way they ran cooperatives in Scandinavia. PL&W is the nation’s oldest mutual utility. It is a non-profit organization. E….
Blood Drive – locally
Cascade Regional Blood Services will be conducting the following mobile blood drives in your service area: · Thursday – Feb 13, 8:15am – 2:15pm at Franklin Pierce High School, 11002 18th Avenue East · Friday – Feb 21, 8am – 1:30pm at Bethel High School, 22215 38th Ave E · Monday – Feb 24, 8am – 2pm at…
Support Puyallup and Franklin Pierce Schools
A quality educational environment is an essential pillar of a community’s character and quality of life. Therefore, community support for its schools is critical. The Summit-Waller Community Association Board of Directors on behalf of our community membership encourages all voters to approve both levy propositions before the voters in the Puyallup and Franklin Pierce School…
Work on Pacific Avenue
Traffic Impacts SR 7 northbound Road work on SR 7 northbound at Milepost 52.36 near 112th St S beginning at 9:11 p.m. on January 26, 2014 until approximately 3:00 a.m. on January 27, 2014.
Letter from a lake homeowner
Dear Councilman Roach: Thank you so much for coming to our Spanaway Lake meeting about the Shoreline Management Plan. I am one of the concerned home owners on the lake. My house would be one of the homes that would be the label “Non Conforming” It was built in the early nineteen hundreds. Over the years…
Oops – there goes your house on the lake, part 2
By Sherry Haviland OOPS……….. There goes your house on Spanaway Lake, Tule, Steilacoom, American, Tapps, Kapowsin, etc. any body of water in Pierce County! Even creeks and ponds! All bodies of water will be subjected to new shoreline regulations from Dept. of Ecology, developed or not! Setbacks will no longer be the main criteria Buffers…
75 feet from shoreline – what do you have?
SPANAWAY, WA — Thursday Jan. 9, two meetings were held at the Spanaway Round Table Pizza. These meeting were to raise awareness among people living near Pierce County bodies of water that their shoreline are about to have 75 foot buffers created. What do you have in Pierce County within 75 feet of a creek, river,…
62 million reasons to protect the lake
SPANAWAY, WA — Lake property values, restrictions on construction and political posturing will be topic on the table Thursday at the new Round Table Pizza at 208th and Mountain Highway. Spanaway Lake properties represent around $62,000,000 in taxable value. Tule Lake may also be affected. The new Shoreline Management Project proposed by Deborah Hyde for Pierce County…
Pierce Prairie Post 