Orting News Archives

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.

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

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

During last week's record-breaking heat, you could almost hear the corn growing at Tahoma Farms in Orting.

The U.S. Department of Transportation has awarded Pierce County a $400,000 grant for roadside improvements.

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

Terry Ellison, left, and Sherman Davis, with the Department of Fish and Wildlife, measure the depth of the dredging at the Voight Creek Hatchery as they worked recently to repair the facilitylast month.

Rifling through the paperwork that blankets my computer desk , it looks like it's time to answer some correspondence from readers.

Editor's note: The following is a story written by a student who was mentored by a News Tribune editor earlier this summer at the Seattle University Journalism Summer Workshop.