The Meridian Collision Center held its 4th Annual Rod and Custom Show in South Hill last weekend, and it served as a glorious beginning to the neighborhood block parties and community festivals coming to our area throughout the summer season. Continue reading
The 5th Annual Rainier Independent Film Festival brought three days of quality feature films and shorts, plus a bevy of documentaries and cinematic workshops to Ashford this weekend. However, the festival had to compete with blue skies and blazing sunshine, so the turnout was light, estimated by officials at about 200. Continue reading
by Paula Morris
My daughter was on her way to work last Thursday afternoon when she spotted the neighbor’s cat with something “largish” in her teeth. She slammed on her brakes, took off after the cat, and caught her before she could run away with her prey. Continue reading
by Bruce A. Smith
A Japanese TV film crew has been in the area this week, and on Thursday they interviewed me on the topic of DB Cooper – the legendary skyjacker who parachuted into the night air over western Washington in 1971 with $200,000 and has never been seen since, plus, his identity is still unknown. Continue reading
A Bethel School District bus was involved in a motor vehicle accident Tuesday afternoon in Roy. None of the ten students on board or the driver was injured, according to Krista Carlson, Director of Communications for BSD. Continue reading
A zoning request by the Bethel School District regarding its newly acquired acreage along 224th St, and submitted to the Graham Land Use Advisory Commission (LUAC) at its May meeting, has ignited a wave of protests from neighbors and land use advocates. Continue reading
Although the Memorial Day Weekend has its origins as a time to commemorate wartime casualties, it has also come to represent the beginning of summer.
We may not have gotten much summertime weather, but the festivals and special events, particularly outdoor ones, have begun. Continue reading
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 the Bethel Station shopping mall as a way to fight the blues of the economic recession and as a unique addition to bolster lagging sales. Continue reading
For the past ten months I have been able to claim “Newbie” status here in Graham, Washington, three months of which I have had the privilege of writing for the Mountain News under its hard working, able-bodied editor, Bruce Smith.
In this short time frame I have had experiences both new and inspirational. Continue reading
Although an unusual six-game winning streak has propelled the Seattle Mariners out of last place in the Western Division, many of the baseball fans heading to Safeco Field these days may not care, ironically, because they’re going to root for the other team.
The Mariners are considered a magnet team – a baseball club that attracts a significant number of fans across the full spectrum of Major League Baseball, not just a home-town crowd. Continue reading
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