Karl Hoseth, a teacher at Spanaway Lake High School, is the winner of the History Teacher of the Year award from the Mary Ball Chapter of the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution.
A Tacoma man with four prior DUIs was arrested early Sunday after driving the wrong way on state Route 7 in Spanaway and hitting three vehicles, according to the Washington State Patrol.
Pierce County sheriff’s deputies have arrested a Spanaway man they believe killed his mother with a chair and severely injured his father with a vacuum cleaner during a drug-fueled rage Monday night.
The Bethel School Board has appointed Stanley Chapin to represent Director District No. 3, which covers the Elk Plain-Spanaway area. He will fill a vacancy left by the resignation of board member Marianne Lincoln.
The Bethel School Board today will interview candidates for two openings on the School Board. The openings follow the recent resignations of Joy Cook and Marianne Lincoln.
Unexpected costs related to potential safety issues at a Bethel School District construction project will be discussed at a special meeting of the School Board tonight.
The Pierce County library system picks a book every year for county residents to share in the Pierce County Reads program. This this year the book strikes close to home. Jamie Ford’s “Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet,” a 2010 New York Times bestseller, sets a bittersweet childhood romance squarely in one of the Northwest’s – and America’s – most controversial events: the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II.
The Bethel School Board is seeking two new members following a pair of resignations, including a board veteran who won re-election to her seat in November.
School enrollment numbers are leveling out in Pierce County’s largest suburban districts, slowing a trend that saw these districts explode with new housing and kids in the 1990s and early 2000s while urban Tacoma’s student population steadily declined.
The new Children’s Museum of Tacoma is free for all (or at least pay what you can), which should be celebration enough for those of us looking for fun stuff for our kids. The new space provides physical excitement and sensory stimulation for kids of all ages, even teenagers.
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