Eatonville News

DuPONT Patricia Graves, 48, has been named area executive for First Citizens Bank, charged with overseeing its commercial, business, retail banking and other operations in the state.

Raymun Exum spreads lubricant Thursday on the base of a steel casing that will be twisted into the ground by an oscillator, right, capable of generating 7 million pounds of torque.

It's all about birds in the coming weeks at the Tacoma Nature Center. It begins Friday with the opening of "For the Love of Birds," an art exhibit featuring the work of Eatonville wildlife artist Dale C. Thompson.

Margaret K. Williams was an original member of the Pierce County Arts Commission in addition to being involved in the community in many capacities.

WOLF SANCTUARY. Visitors to the Red Wolf Woods ground-breaking event look over a model of what the exhibit should look like for visitors in spring 2010.

Eatonville has seen a century's worth of the worst weather the Northwest can muster, so residents of the Mount Rainier foothills town weren't about to let the threat of showers rain on their parade Saturday.

T.C. Van Eaton was a young man on a mission when he set out for Washington Territory in 1888.

Just about everyone who uses the public library, it seems, has racked up fines for overdue materials.

Richard Burris is on a mission. The Lakewood resident is chair of the transportation committee for the Tatoosh Chapter of Sierra Club.

Kathy Buse of Puyallup was thankful for her new rain garden when a record-breaking downpour set in earlier this month.

A search is under way for three horse riders overdue from a ride in the Eatonville area of Pierce County Monday morning.

Bumbershoot and Dave Matthews' annual three-night stand at the Gorge Amphitheatre are fading in the rearview mirror.

YELM State Rep. Tom Campbell plans four town hall meetings in the 2nd Legislative District over the next two weeks, the first of them at the Yelm Public Safety Building on Saturday.

Two family tree farms in Pierce County are in the forefront of a relatively new way to preserve open space one we should all hope proves successful.

Nearly 1,100 schools across Washington are now swept up in a federal improvement program because they are failing under federal accountability standards, preliminary figures released today show.

A Pierce County sheriff's spokesman says a small plane that ran out of fuel landed safely Wednesday night in some marshy land near Eatonville in a rural part of the county.

A Pierce County sheriff's spokesman says a small plane that ran out of fuel landed safely Wednesday night in some marshy land near Eatonville in a rural part of the county.

A Pierce County sheriff's spokesman says a small plane that ran out of fuel landed safely Wednesday night in some marshy land near Eatonville in a rural part of the county.

A Pierce County sheriff's spokesman says a small plane that ran out of fuel landed safely Wednesday night in some marshy land near Eatonville in a rural part of the county.

Sheriff's Deputies responded ot a report of a plane that came in for an emergency landing in rural Pierce County Wednesday night.