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Thursday Dec 17 | Exit 133

Weekend Roundup: Feeling the Love Tacoma style

One cool thing about Tacoma is the local pride residents have for the City of Destiny.

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Tue Dec 15, 2009

The News Tribune - Homepage - News, S...

Mexican company reacquires Asarco

WASHINGTON - A Mexican company formally regained control of Asarco on Thursday, as a court-approved bankruptcy plan took effect providing $188 million to Washington state for environmental damages from its Ruston smelter and other operations.Under the plan, Grupo Mexico will pay a total of nearly $1.8 billion for environmental cleanup and ...

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Sun Dec 13, 2009

Tacoma News Tribune

Time to tally feathered friends

Birders will be heading out around Tacoma and Pierce County as part of the Tahoma Audubon Society's Christmas Bird Count on Dec.

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Fri Dec 11, 2009

Centre Daily Times

Copper mining company to pay $1.8 billion to clean up toxic sites

A Mexican company will pay a total of nearly $1.8 billion for environmental cleanup and restoration at 80 sites in 19 states where bankrupt copper producer Asarco mined and operated smelters, including one in Washington state.

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Wed Nov 25, 2009

Tacoma News Tribune

Point Ruston: It took a big village, Sims says

Two new apartment buildings to be built at the site of the former Asarco copper smelter near Point Defiance Park are examples of a new brand of cooperation among federal agencies, the number two man in the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development said Monday.

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Tue Nov 17, 2009

Tacoma News Tribune

Ruston tunnel closure a preview of permanent change

Work on a project that will bury forever one of the last quirky remnants of Tacoma's Ruston Way industrial waterfront, the Ruston tunnel, begins today.

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Sat Nov 14, 2009

Tacoma News Tribune

Council puts out fireworks

Personal fireworks of all kinds, including sparklers, will be outlawed in Steilacoom in 2011, putting Washington's oldest town among the ranks of no-fireworks cities such as Tacoma, Fircrest, Ruston and Federal Way.

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Wed Nov 11, 2009

The News Tribune - Homepage - News, S...

Ruston tunnel closure a preview of permanent change

Work on a project that will bury forever one of the last quirky remnants of Tacoma's Ruston Way industrial waterfront, the Ruston tunnel, begins today.

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Thu Oct 01, 2009

TheNewsTribune.com

37 day care centers will be cleaned of Asarco contamination

Work will begin this month to clean up playgrounds at 37 day care centers in Pierce and King counties, sites that were contaminated by arsenic and lead from the old Asarco smelter in Ruston.

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Fri Sep 18, 2009

Tacoma News Tribune

Tacoma's SAMI class opens doors

Elijah Williams, Alex Kidder and Sam Rogge, from left, all 14-year-old freshmen at Tacoma's new Science and Math Institute work on a class assignment Sept.

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Thu Sep 03, 2009

The Olympian

Court gives Grupo Mexico control of Asarco again

WASHINGTON A U.S. bankruptcy judge in Texas has concluded that Grupo Mexico should regain control of Asarco even though it had been accused of gutting the century-old mining/smelting company and the federal government and 11 states including Washington opposed the reorganization plan.

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Sat Aug 15, 2009

Tacoma News Tribune

Down-under gardening

Along North 51st Street in Tacoma, a line of gum trees droops elegantly in the summer sun.

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Thu Aug 13, 2009

Earth Times

Harbor Lights 50th Anniversary Makes a Festive Port of Call Aug. 13

The tide will be in, the tables set and the outdoor tents will be up as Harbor Lights prepares to make a splash to commemorate its 50th Anniversary this Thursday, Aug.

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Tue Aug 11, 2009

Business Examiner

Celebrating the past, and future

Tacoma's waterfront restaurant Harbor Lights will commemorate its 50th anniversary this Thursday.

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Tue Jun 30, 2009

Exit 133

Imagine Tacoma a " bLINK Extensions

Nick Martens , a Colorado native, wanted to study in the Northwest because he heard it was pretty hip and very damp.

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Wed Jun 17, 2009

The Seattle Times

Man shot by WA police, police dog stabbed

My thoughts and prayers are with the K-9 member. I could care less if the perp survives or not.

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Tue Jun 02, 2009

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Boomer Consumer: Be an informed boomer consumer when buying a new home

Over the years, as a consumer writer, I've written about how to buy a home a number of times.

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Fri May 29, 2009

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Visit a historic ferry, buy a new condo

By AUBREY COHEN SEATTLEPI.COM STAFF Point Ruston developer Mike Cohen came to visit Seattle this week, riding his sales center up from Pierce County.

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Wed May 27, 2009

The Stranger

Text Message From a Toxic-Waste Site

That industrial waste is slag from a nine-story copper smelter that used to stand here.

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