Orting News

Next spring, a new member of royalty will make her debut in Fife. Fife's Daffodil Princess Anne Phillips was chosen on Oct.

A 67-year-old Bonney Lake woman suffered serious injuries to her head after the car she was riding in was involved in a two-car accident Friday on state Route 167 at 30th Avenue East.

Orting will become one of the first cities in the state to allow golf carts on its streets.

The City of Orting will conduct a lahar drill exercise Tuesday, Wednesday or Thursday of this week.

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

When James and Corinne LaFord were married in 1989 many things were different. George Bush senior was president, Gorillas in the Mist was top at the box office and the Woodmark Hotel at Carillon Point in Kirkland had just opened.

The Buckley City Council hosted its first formal budget discussion to address what will be done about a deficit of approximately $278,000 heading into discussions surrounding its 2010 financial plan.

Raul and Dorothy Espino of Buckley was honored with the Daisy Stallworth Achievement Awards for their community organizing efforts and foster parenting.

After spending 20 years working in a health care-related field, Teresa Maycumber's first venture into the coffee business didn't stray too far from what she knows and loves.

Pierce County sheriff's investigators are trying to identify a woman suspected of drawing a mustache on her face and robbing three east Pierce County businesses at gunpoint in a 16-hour span last week.

Two small Pierce County communities have received state grants for flood control projects.

Ernie Bay calls the newest stretch of the Foothills Trail "the island in the sky." John Ernest Berry III doesn't know what to call it.

A two car crash closed Highway 162 between Sumner and Orting Thursday morning. Video from Chopper 7 showed a truck on its side in the middle of the Highway and a car on the side of the road with severe front end damage.

A man was killed when his car crashed into a tree in Orting early Thursday. The crash occurred at 200th Street East and Orting-Kapowsin Highway.

Motorists experienced delays up to four hours traveling near Selah on Friday, when a semitrailer hauling hay rolled over in the Interstate 82 construction zone.

Auburn Tourism: For special events in the Auburn area, visit the Web site: www.auburntourism.com. The Auburn International Farmers Market: 11 a.m.-3 p.m., each Sunday, now until Sept.

Terri Walker and Brian Kaplan are giving folks something to talk about. The Sumner residents are the names behind Uptown Coffee News, a weekly publication they distribute to three regions: the Puyallup Valley, Puyallup South Hill and Sumner, Bonney Lake and Orting.

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.

Merger talks between East Pierce and District 18 are in preliminary stages A news Web site reported last week that an area fire district is interested at merging with East Pierce Fire and Rescue.

Hot weather has turned the mud left from January's flooding at Voights Creek Hatchery south of Orting into dust.