Carbonado News

Buckley Fire Chief Alan Predmore was recently authorized by the Buckley City Council to extend an operating agreement with American Medical Response to provide advanced life support services to Buckley, Carbonado, Greenwater and Crystal Mountain.

Buckley City Council spent a busy 90 minutes at the city's Multi-Purpose Center Wednesday night.

Another change is coming to Skeeka s, the Church Street business owned by longtime Wilkeson resident Lambert a oeSkeeka Gonzales.

A pair of contested mayoral races highlight the Plateau's political landscape, now that the 2009 filing period has come to an end.

School board seats across the Plateau are open, starting with current Enumclaw School Board President Cathy Dahlquista s and board member Chris Van Hoofa s positions.

At midweek, the pace is easy on Wilkeson's main drag. Most buildings on the street date from the 1920s and were replacements for structures destroyed in a pair of fires that hit the historic town nearly 100 years ago.

The American Cancer Societya s Relay for Life is celebrating its 25th anniversary, so Buckley organizers are recruiting people to be a part of the special overnight event which this year focuses on colon cancer.

Several egg hunts are scheduled Saturday to keep Plateau kids entertained. a The city of Enumclaw is planning its second annual a oeHop To Ita hunt for the Enumclaw Expo Center grounds.

Nichole Forbes and Chris Pierce were married Sept. 13, 2008, at Sanders Mansion in Auburn.

With gas prices bound to increase again, it makes sense to reduce your driving as much as possible.

Plateau prep basketball teams experienced a case of Black Thursday in the Tacoma Dome.

Major school construction bond and levy measures in the Tacoma, Puyallup, Auburn and Vashon Island school districts were failing in early returns posted this evening in the all-mail election.

If ballots had comment sections, the votes counted Tuesday might have read something like this: "It's not personal.

While school districts across the region were failing levy and bond propositions, voters in Carbonado gave their school district the thumbs up on a six-year, $72,000 technology levy.

Today is the deadline to drop off ballots or have them postmarked for school bond and levy elections in Pierce County.

A woman killed in a rollover crash late Saturday near Carbonado has been identified as Gail L. Richardson, 40, of Carbonado.

Pierce County medical examiners worked Saturday to identify a woman killed when her car rolled over on Manley Moore Road East, about 10 miles southeast of Carbonado.

The rain came and stayed, the snow melted and then people found themselves under water The crackling voice over the scanner told the story the afternoon of Jan.

A cold front hit the area Friday night leaving snow, ice and plunging temperatures in its wake.