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.
Category: Parkland
Parkland
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…
Oops, there goes your house by the lake…
By Marianne Lincoln Pierce County is proposing to adopt a significant change to the rules and regulations that affect Spanaway Lake and its associated creeks. This change is being implemented by the creation and passage of the Shoreline Master Program. The proposed Shoreline Master program would change the existing setbacks to buffers. The difference is…
Northern Pacific Coffee Company
By Marianne Lincoln PARKLAND, WA — Saturday evening, December 28, NPCC on C Street and Garfield in Parkland had a big event to help raise funds for the business to pay its rent. With most PLU students off on Winter break and most other people focused on the holidays, business has been slow. Earlier in…
Nordic Christmas Fest
Saturday afternoon, December 21, the Scandinavian Cultural Center at Pacific Lutheran University held its annual Nordic Christmas Fest. Local members and their families attended and feasted upon Norwegian Goat Cheese (Gjetost), Swedish Farmer Cheese, Creamy Danish Havarti, Danish Bleu, Seedless Grapes, Pickled Beets (Syltede robeter), Crisp Bread (Knäckebröd), Danish Pumpernickel, Pork Liver Paté (Lever postei), Pickled Herring,…
Garfield Book Company Holiday Party
PARKLAND, WA — On Thursday at 2:00pm, the Garfield Book Company, 208 S Garfield Street, Suite 101, Tacoma, near PLU, will have a Holiday Party. John Sundstrom of Lark & Steve Roberts of Wine Trails NW will be here doing cooking demonstrations and wine sampling! Stop by for an afternoon of fun, food, drinks, raffles, door prizes, gifts…
12 mile backup on I-5 at Mounts Rd packs Pacific Avenue
On the radio they called it a 12 mile backup. The accident at Mounts Road between Dupont and the Nisqually River on Southbound I-5 has commuters scrambling for alternate routes. Pacific Avenue in Parkland and Spanaway is packed and cars are hardly moving at the lights. If you need to get to Spanaway or point…
Winterfest at the Parkland School
By Marianne Lincoln PARKLAND, WA — The line outside was long, luckily it was above freezing Saturday morning and there was no rain. Volunteers in red shirts were scurrying everywhere, carrying trays with cups of orange juice and baskets with sausage and scrambled eggs or fresh pastries for those waiting. Moms, dads and lots of children…
Pierce Prairie Post 