Raymond G. LaMadeleine was being pursued by creditors in Pierce and Thurston counties and thought people had been trying to steal timber from the Roy-area property he’d been renting.
Pierce County sheriff’s deputies shot and killed a 50-year-old man Monday night after he allegedly opened fire while a SWAT team served a search warrant at his home near Roy.
A divided Bethel School Board has approved a preliminary budget plan that does not include closing schools or changing to an all-day, every-other-day kindergarten schedule.
As chum salmon make their way up Muck Creek, plans are set for the annual Roy Salmon Homecoming.
My mom died recently after a prolonged, ugly struggle with dementia and decreasing health due to her advanced age. We were so lucky to find a wonderful place for her to live out the last years of her life and would like to thank the caregivers who took care of her with love in their hearts and gentleness in their hands.
A 32-year-old Roy-area woman was killed Thursday morning when she lost control of her vehicle and crashed into a tree.
Two incumbents on the Bethel School Board face challenges this fall while a third is running unopposed in Pierce County’s third-largest school district, which serves more than 17,000 students and covers more than 200 square miles.
It used to be a junk yard. 18 acres of old truck-trailers, junked cars, airplane parts and drums of stored chemicals. Hard to imagine on Friday, as a dozen volunteers worked their way through wet grass to a healthy apple orchard, plucking crisp, ripe Liberty apples off the trees and filling 70 lug boxes with fruit.
The Bethel School Board on Tuesday night unanimously approved a two-year contract with district teachers that cushions them from a funding cut handed down by the state Legislature this year.
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