Anderson Island News

If going green is one of your New Year's resolutions, here's a place to start: Recycle that Christmas tree.

If going green is one of your New Year's resolutions, here's a place to start: Recycle that Christmas tree.

Title: PORTAL TO MAYA "HELL" FOUND IN MEXICO? A labyrinth filled with stone temples and pyramids in 14 caves-some underwater-have been uncovered on Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula, archaeologists announced recently.

I agree that there should be an independent investigation of this whole takeover.

Title: PAGAN TRADITIONS OFFER DIFFERENT INTERPRETATION OF HARVEST AND SPIRIT Although Oct.

Open houses will be held Nov. 5 and Nov. 6 to review and comment on the proposed Anderson and Ketron Islands Community Plan.

The shelves are stocked with food and sundries and an antique buggy overflows with pumpkins and beer, as Chevy the dog happily greets visitors to "his" Curtis Store during Saturday's grand re-opening of the ...

Wastewater disposal at McNeil Island Corrections Center was back to normal this week after the prison pumped partially treated sewage into Puget Sound over the course of several days.

Title: GODDESS ROLE TO BE SCRAPPED A centuries-old custom in Nepal of worshipping a virgin girl residing in a palace as a "living goddess" is set to be scrapped after the Supreme Court ruled that the "deity" ...

Don't go raising the victory flag just yet. The precipitous decline in Pierce County methamphetamine labs is cause for celebration, but not an excuse to rest.

This new trend of staycations is nothing new to me. Growing up, we referred to those mid-week breaks from the summer doldrums as our Wednesday Wanderings.

A Baker's Dozen-worth of Japanese students arrived in Steilacoom in late July for a two-week visit.

Joe Blaschka saw nurse practitioner Carolyn Newhouse on Tuesday at MultiCare's Express Clinic inside a Rite Aid store in Lakewood.

ANDERSON ISLAND, Wash. - Barbara Lake , owner and innkeeper of Anderson Island Inns , has been selected as an Honored Member of the Biltmore Who ' s Who Executive and Professional Registry .

Passers-by might have mistaken Debby Spevak's office for an ice cream truck today, were it not for the U.S. Postal Service's red and blue logo.

Actually, the Matthew Broderick film "War Games" was filmed in Steilacoom, on the Anderson Island Ferry and a bit on Anderson Island.

The whistles of passing trains blare nearly 70 times a day in Steilacoom. Now residents face an indefinitely noisy future, just months after train horns appeared destined to become a romantic memory in ...

There is a new book on the historic town of Steilacoom written by a local author, Sunny Pepin, in cooperation with the Steilacoom Historical Museum Association.

Home sales remained sluggish in May in every part of Pierce County. Some were worse or better than others, however.

Pierce County's M/V Christine Anderson will be going out of service Tuesday, June 3 for repairs and will be replaced by the Washington State Ferries' M/V Rhododendron.