Kindergarten registration for the Steilacoom School District is set for March 25-29 at the district offices, 510/511 Chambers St. Registrations are done by appointment. Families must complete a packet in advance and provide a copy of the child’s birth certificate, a list of immunizations and proof of residence.
He’s gone from the Tribal Council to general counsel. Former "Survivor" castaway Nick Brown starts March 4 as new Gov. Jay Inslee's official lawyer.
A Steilacoom woman will be arraigned on first-degree animal cruelty charges this afternoon for allegedly neglecting one of her dogs so badly that every bone on his body protruded.
A 42-year-old woman who once managed four apartment complexes in Steilacoom faces a second-degree theft charge for allegedly pocketing tenants’ rent money.
He’s gone from the Tribal Council to General Counsel. Gov. Jay Inslee’s new lawyer, Nicholas Brown, is a former contestant on the show “Survivor.”
The Steilacoom High School Cheer Squad recently competed at the WIAA State Cheerleading Championships and won first place in the 1A/2A non-tumbling division for the third year in a row.
A 35-year-old Steilacoom woman was charged with first-degree animal cruelty for so badly neglecting one of her dogs that every bone in his body protruded.
Art Himmler, who led the Steilacoom School District for 15 years before becoming superintendent of the Omak School District three years ago, was killed in a car accident Thursday morning.
A 35-year-old Steilacoom woman is charged with first-degree animal cruelty for so badly neglecting one of her dogs that every bone on his body protruded.
A new report issued Monday by the Washington State Auditor’s Office says the Steilacoom Historical School District was overpaid nearly $1 million over two years because it overcounted enrollment in its online program.
The Steilacoom School Board voted to modify the 2012-13 school year calendar to reflect a release-time change for Wednesday, March 13. That day had been a scheduled one-hour early release day. But it also is a day for mandatory testing at the high school.
For a professor, Hillary Stephens does a pretty good imitation of a spaceship captain. Stephens is the coordinator of the new Science Dome planetarium at Pierce College, and at the dome’s public unveiling Saturday she had a roomful of children convinced they were visiting outer space.
Joint Base Lewis-McChord could lose some 8,000 soldiers by the end of the decade, according to an Army study released Friday.
A group of Steilacoom residents is asking town leaders for more time to purchase land that they in turn would donate to the town for use as a small park.
The state Auditor’s Office issued a finding Monday against the Steilacoom Historical School District and, in an unusual move, rescinded it hours later while it takes another look at past student enrollment in online programs.
Four storage rooms. Six weeks of labor. Twenty-seven inflatables. A $400 power bill. That’s just some of what you need to get the kind of holiday light display that’ll have the neighbors gaping in admiration and carloads of local tourists making pilgrimages to your house. It’ll take you weeks of set-up and weeks of tear-down, nightly maintenance and many post-Christmas shopping trips. But for two South Sound couples, turning their property into a miniversion of Spanaway's Fantasy Lights is definitely worth all the effort.
Port Steilacoom Distillery is a micro distillery started by spirits enthusiasts who will keep their day jobs working in health care. They’ll operate their tasting room in downtown Steilacoom on Wednesdays through Sundays.
A conservation group is seeking to buy the old Abitibi paper mill site in Steilacoom.
Steilacoom Historical School District Superintendent Bill Fritz will host an informal community conversation on Dec. 10, covering a wide range of participant-generated topics.
Serious long-range planning for McNeil Island can’t take place until the state figures out what to do with the Special Commitment Center for violent sexual predators.
Here’s the rundown of tree-lighting ceremonies for west Pierce County communities:
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