Category Archives: Spanaway

Comedy night at JR Whistle Stop delivers the laughs in Spanaway

  A packed house got their money’s worth of comedy last Thursday at JR’s Whistle Stop restaurant in Spanaway.  Over the past several months, owner John Reynolds (the JR) has brought professional comedy acts to his three-year old restaurant in … Continue reading

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Bethel seeks county code changes for electronic signs in Frederickson

  The Bethel School District launched its latest effort to win approval for electronic readerboards at last Monday’s Frederickson Land Use Advisory Commission meeting (F-LUAC).

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Rebuild of Sprinker ice rink receives praise from professional skaters and public

  The proposed $6.1 million rebuild of the ice rink at Sprinker Recreation Center in Spanaway is receiving enthusiastic support from the ice skating community, including several local professionals who use it as a training facility.

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Daffodil Parade in Orting delights thousands

   Although the 78th Annual Daffodil Parade lost its sunny skies somewhere around Tacoma, it still dodged the raindrops three towns later when the twenty-two Daffodil Princesses and their Queen, Claire Fleming, arrived in Orting Saturday afternoon.

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Update on domestic violence slayings in Spanaway

  The troubles of the Stewart-Sampels family came into sharper focus today as more details of this double-homicide-suicide incident have been revealed by police.

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Third domestic violence incident this week claims three more lives

  A high-speed chase on I-5 today ended in the driver’s suicide, and capped what appears to be another lethal domestic violence episode that claimed the life of his wife and their six year-old son.

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Town Hall meetings reveal a calming political mood

  Last Saturday, the triumvirate of 2nd LD legislators completed a two-week series of Town Hall meetings held throughout the district, and their words and tone reveal that the angry rhetoric of the past eighteen months has dissipated.

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Worker rescued after long slide down sewer pipe

  A worker was rescued Monday, March 21, after sliding 3,000 feet down a sewer pipe at the Chambers Creek Wastewater Treatment Plant, according to a press release issued to the Mountain News by the county’s Department of Public Works … Continue reading

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House church in Spanaway a beacon for youth

  A modest but modern house in a Spanaway sub-division has become an unlikely magnet for teens and young adults seeking a religious community.

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