Editor’s Note: These deaths bring to fifteen, the number of domestic violence homicides and corresponding suicides that I have covered as a reporter in the past three years in Graham, Eatonville, Roy, Spanaway and Kapowsin.
An Eatonville couple died Sunday afternoon in a murder-suicide incident, while a second shooting in Roy claimed the life of an unnamed adult male Friday, Pierce County Sheriff’s deputies announced today. Continue reading
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Today, The Mountain News welcomes award-winning baker, Beverly Marshall of Orting, to these pages. Besides being a master of pastries, Bev is also a former journalist with the Orting Gazette, and we are honored to have Bev join us here, and in particular, sharing the secrets of her rhubarb pie. Continue reading
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The following letter is an update on the situation in Japan that was written by a Baptist missionary named John Armagost. His message comes to The Mountain News via Carol Wright of Graham, who received it through her faith community’s prayer circle. Continue reading
Maybe it’s the genetics, but my family and I go nuts when we drive into an airport. Continue reading
Editor’s Note: Major League Baseball started the 2011 season yesterday with a few select teams, and today the Seattle Mariners begin their campiagn in Oakland. They’ll have their home-opener next Thursday against Cleveland at Safeco Field, and this short story is offered as a celebration of this wonderful sport. Continue reading
By Paula Morris
I lived a driven life prior to retiring.
I worked part-time as an R.N., did practicum work toward my doctorate and maintained a part-time counseling practice on weekends. Combined with this were homework and classroom studies, studying for my comprehensive exams, and combating the guilt of not being able to visit my eldest daughter and two grandsons as often as I would have liked. Added to all that was a fifteen-year relationship with a man who kept me entangled by manufacturing emotional tsunami’s every other week. Totaled, I had the ingredients for a breakdown, burn-out, meltdown – whatever. Continue reading
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After Japan, people are asking what they can do to prepare for emergencies. In the media we see that millions near the epicenter are struggling with obtaining the basics of life – food, water and adequate shelter, while the rest of their nation is coping with rolling blackouts, interruptions to work and transportation, and a growing concern with radiation. Continue reading
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. ->
A lively crowd braved a chilling rain Saturday to celebrate canine friendship at the 7th Annual Most Magnificent Mutt Show, held on the grounds of the Pierce County Fair at Frontier Park in Graham. Continue reading
Editor’s Note: Tonight begins a regular feature of the Mountain News on Friday nights – a piece of humor:
At first, I thought it was the rain. My new home of Yelm, Washington receives over sixty inches of rain per year, fifty-percent more than my old abode of Long Island, New York. So, things are a tad slippery around here. But whether it’s my Clark’s walkabouts, hiking boots or sneakers, none of my shoelaces stay tied. Since I’ve arrived in Washington, I’m double-knotting for the first time since I was six years-old. Continue reading
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