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554 students letter in valuable community service

Published May 26th, 2012 - 12:05AM

If we measure work the way we normally do, in dollars, we owe the 554 students assembled at the Hotel Murano this week about $1,206,966 worth of thanks.

49,000 people free from tobacco, thanks to him

Published May 23rd, 2012 - 12:05AM

A legal drug that tricks the brain into letting it attack the body offends Dr. Patrick Hogan III. It offends the Tacoma doctor so much that he’s volunteered the last 20 years, dragging its victims back from addiction.

Cancer center fights for own survival

Published May 21st, 2012 - 12:05AM

Tacoma’s Breast Cancer Resource Center is broke. The doors are closed, its three employees on furlough. Now executive director Janie Cunningham and colleagues Sarah Jones and Marti Curtis are following the advice they give to cancer patients: Fight it. Get your friends to fight it. Get your Facebook friends fighting, too.

reactions from local readers

Published May 19th, 2012 - 12:05AM

“Very disappointing. I would not buy or wear it. It took me a while to work out that it was 253 but I do not associate a gun with what makes me appreciate Tacoma. This is not a community building tool.”

Is this the right symbol for Tacoma?

Published May 18th, 2012 - 4:37PM

There's a nearly new 253 graphic in T-Town. It's a handgun with our iconic area code drawn into it from barrel to stock, and it’s sparking a countywide debate about art and commerce, history and image, grit and hearts.

Obese cat teaches tolerance; may he rest in peace

Published May 16th, 2012 - 12:05AM

Meow was a curiosity of a cat.

He broke rules to build community

Published May 14th, 2012 - 12:05AM

University of Puget Sound administrators kicked Dennis Flannigan out of school for messing with the way things are supposed to be.

Man awarded honorary UPS degree broke rules to build community

Published May 13th, 2012 - 5:41PM

University of Puget Sound administrators kicked Dennis Flannigan out of school for messing with the way things are supposed to be. Close to 50 years later, they gave him an honorary Doctor of Laws degree for the same thing.

Volunteers bring Lakewood home back into the light

Published May 12th, 2012 - 12:05AM

Glen Turpin did his best to turn his Lakewood home into a bunker. This week, 35 volunteers sweated to make it a house again.

She’s strong for neighborhoods but mortal in hospital bed

Published May 9th, 2012 - 12:05AM

Lisa Wojtanowicz has, as one of her friends put it, taken a long walk through a dark place.

Widow warns others of love scam

Published May 7th, 2012 - 12:05AM

Darlene knows enough not to be scammed by Nigerian princes, the claim fees for vast winnings in lotteries she didn’t enter and the widows of wealthy bankers who need her help to access a fortune in which she can then share.

If you’re nice, you too can achieve aloha

Published May 5th, 2012 - 12:05AM

This is a tale of a movie beach, a lost key and three pods of helpful Washingtonians on a tiny island.

New STAR Center is a community in a building

Published April 18th, 2012 - 12:05AM

Metro Parks Tacoma’s new STAR Center is unlike anything else in Tacoma, and it bids fair to be a model for the future. It gets the City of Tacoma, Pierce County, Boys & Girls clubs, Tacoma Public Schools and Joint Base Lewis-McChord collaborating on programs.

Let’s not stand for high rate of tribal youth suicide

Published April 16th, 2012 - 12:05AM

Last week’s sad death of Daffodil Princess Alexandria Cole will fall into the numbers that health experts use to alert us to risks. It will be swept into the statistics that governments use to allocate resources to the understanding and prevention of the things that kill us.

Love of pups proof enough of ownership

Published April 14th, 2012 - 12:05AM

Lavinia Goodman picked up her News Tribune at a convenience store Friday morning and whooped with delight. She had been frantic, looking for her two dogs – and there they were, on the front page.

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