Pierce County Sheriff receives school resource officer grant, officer to serve Franklin Pierce Schools PARKLAND, WA — On Sept. 27, the Department of Justice’s Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) division announced that Pierce County Sheriff’s Dept. received a COPS hiring grant for $125,000. The grant award is in partnership with Franklin Pierce Schools. The grant…
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Oct. 17 Earthquake drills
At 10:17 a.m. on October 17, 2013, hundreds of thousands of Washingtonians will “Drop, Cover, and Hold On” in The Great Washington ShakeOut, the state’s largest earthquake drill ever! All K-12 schools and districts are encouraged to participate in the drill (or plan a more extensive exercise). Major earthquakes may happen anywhere you live, work,…
High School football scores Sept. 19-20
Curtis over Bethel, 23 to 27 SLHS over Todd Beamer, 27 to 17 GKHS over Federal Way, 39 to 21 Franklin Pierce over Orting, 23 -21 White River over Washington, 43 to 14 Yelm over Stadium, 47 to 21
High School football scores Sept 12-13
Here are the scores from this week’s high school football games: Franklin Pierce 43, Sammamish 14, FINAL Centralia 58, Washington 32, FINAL Graham-Kapowsin 24, Curtis 14, FINAL [Editor note: Whoo, hoo!] Puyallup 47, Spanaway Lake 20, FINAL Tahoma 33, Bethel 7, FINAL
FP District receives CTE grant of $25,000 to support WHS engineering program
Franklin Pierce Schools has received an announcement indicating a grant award of $25,000 from a Washington State competitive grant program focused on building a stronger aerospace and manufacturing pipeline to employment. The grant is administered by the Office of State Superintendent of Public Instruction (OSPI). Grant recipients will implement components of the Core Plus curriculum…
Franklin Pierce School District welcomes new school board member
TACOMA, WA — The Franklin Pierce School District Board of Directors officially filled the vacant Director District 1 board seat at its last regular school board meeting. Mr. Doug Carlson, 47, was appointed to the vacant seat at the Tuesday, August 20 regular school board meeting following an interview of the candidates. He was officially…
Thursday football – Tahoma at Bethel
This season there are many Thursday Varsity Football games for the Bethel District high schools. On Sept 12, Tahoma will play Bethel at Art Crate Field. Come out a join in the local fun! Thursday, Sept. 12 Tahoma at Bethel (NL) (Art Crate Field) Friday, Sept 13 Curtis at Graham Kapowsin (Art Crate Field) Spanaway…
School begins at Bethel
SPANAWAY, WA — Today was the first day of school in the Bethel School District. This year, a full complement of classes are attending the Middle Schools. The 7th and 8th graders are joined by grade 6. The district elementary schools are now grades K-5; high schools are grades 9 -12. Out in Roy, the…
High school football season begins Sept. 5
SPANAWAY, WA — High school football season is now upon us. Beginning on Thursday, September when Graham Kapowsin High School plays agains Post Falls High in Idaho, Thursday, September 5. The friendly district rivalry game, Spanaway Lake vs. Bethel will be Sept. 6, at 7 p.m. at Art Crate Field. More Bethel sports schedules can be…
Giant beans and other magical things at the FP Farm
By Marianne Lincoln This is a story about giant beans. Unfortunately, they’re not magic beans; it might be handy if they were. At 11 inches, they are pretty impressive for green beans. They’re even being eaten as a food of choice by geese. No, not golden geese, Canadian geese. The beanstalks, although not leading to a castle…
Doug Carlson appointed to Franklin Pierce School Board
PARKLAND, WA — At the end of the meeting, following a late executive session, the Franklin Pierce School Board chose Doug Carlson, 47, the Pierce College Health Education Center Operations Manager to fill the vacant seat left by the resignation of Director Reva Palmer. Carlson has a wife and four chidren ages 19, 16, 14…
Old Parkland School chums meet at the park
Friday, August 16, classmates from the Parkland School met for a potluck. Food and frolic and even some singing by the Jensen girls was on order for the day. Some of you might recognize one of the Jensen girls, that would be our former county councilwoman Barbara Gelman. There are many notable locals that attended…
Pierce Prairie Post 