77 sailboats take part in race that ends at Toliva Shoal, near Steilacoom
- 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.
The cost of locking up sexually violent felons on otherwise vacant McNeil Island is growing, and that could make the Special Commitment Center a target for budget cutters. But nobody on the mainland is clamoring to have 300 sex offenders in their backyard.
Pierce County bomb technicians destroyed a suspicious package found near a Steilacoom patrol car today. The box was empty. Officers are unclear if last night’s windstorm blew the box under the car or if someone put it there, Steilacoom Chief Ron Schaub said. "It shouldn’t have been there."
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