The cheerleading squad from Steilacoom High School recently took first place in the 2A/3A state championships. They won the non-tumbling division with an earned scored of 205.
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.
Seventy-seven sailboats took part in Saturday’s 41st running of the Toliva Shoal Race, which begins in Budd Inlet and heads northeast to Toliva Shoal, not far from Steilacoom in Pierce County. It was the largest field in five years.
The Steilacoom School District is asking for public input to help find a new principal for the town’s high school.
The Steilacoom School District is asking for public input to help find a new principal for the town’s high school.
Kids in at least two Pierce County school districts might be able to avoid making up some class days lost to the January snow and ice storm.
The Pierce County Council Tuesday re-launched the process of creating a flood-control zone district, and this time dangled a carrot for areas rarely in danger of flooding: Some tax money collected could go to stormwater control.
The Steilacoom ferry terminal will close for four months starting the evening of Jan. 3 for renovations, Pierce County announced Friday.
It was just five days before Jake’s Bar & Bistro’s fourth anniversary when Jake Hathcock locked the doors of the Steilacoom restaurant for the last time.
It’s coming down to the same old arguments as Pierce County and its cities weigh the formation of a countywide taxing district for flood control.
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