Algona News

Two weeks ago the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers announced that testing at Howard Hansen Dam on the upper Green River has shown things are no better than they were last January when floodwater opened two depressions on the dam's right abutment.

Ross Hunter emerged from his car in a north Sammamish neighborhood and lathered up his bare forearms with sunscreen.

Ten-year-old Talaya Logan pointed excitedly, proclaiming: "Whoa, guys, look." A bird flew past Logan and fellow members of Mr.

King County Councilman Pete von Reichbauer, left, meets Joanne Futch, Pacific's youth program director, and Pacific Mayor Richard Hildreth at the van donation ceremony.

The Auburn International Farmers Market began its inaugural season last Sunday, attracting business and a big crowd.

Pacific soon will make way for the fast-action artistry of chainsaw-chiseling artists.

The Auburn International Farmers Market begins its inaugural season Sunday. Festivities begin at 8 a.m. at the Auburn Transit Center with the Kiwanis Cowboy Breakfast, followed by a formal opening ceremony celebration at 10:30 a.m. that will include a welcome by Auburn Mayor Pete Lewis, Pacific Mayor Rich Hildreth and Algona Mayor David Hill.

More than 100 residents, along with state and county officials, gathered at the North Tapps Middle School May 13 to hear details of an agreement between Cascade Water Alliance and the Lake Tapps Community Council.

Lynn Pope shakes out his smock in his one-chair barber shop in Algona. Pope, 89, closed the business Saturday that he started 64 years ago.

Violet G. Fischer passed away April 9 in Seattle. She was born November 18, 1920 in Algona, WA.

Volunteers will come together Saturday for the second annual Pacific Parks Pickup, Trash Toss, Weed Wack and Ivy Pull - " a community-wide cleanup effort in celebration of Earth Day.

Good Friday became a day of smiles, handshakes and toasts for the Lake Tapps community and Cascade Water Alliance.

Rod Luke, assistant superintendent of student learning with the Auburn School District, was elected chairman of the board for the Auburn Area Chamber of Commerce.

The Valley Regional Fire Authority responded to 165 calls for service between March 16 and March 22, among them the following: March 16 CPR: 6:26 a.m., . Valley Com dispatched firefighters to a patient who was having a hard time breathing.

The City of Auburn Emergency Management Office, in conjunction the White River Valley Citizen Corps Council and the Valley Regional Fire Authority, will offer a Community Emergency Response Team training course to area residents.

Thirty-one candidates applied to be the new chief of Enumclaw/Fire District 28, four hopefuls were invited to town for interviews Feb.

Connor McKemey has endured dozens of surgeries since he was burned in a December accident.

Perry Fraze, Scoutmaster Jim Brass, Stephen Rees and assistant Ashley Russ, from left, serve a meal Friday to Casar Barrera of Pacific at the Pacific Algona Senior Center in Pacific.

While Auburn escaped major flooding, neighboring Pacific wasn't so fortunate. Late Thursday and early Friday morning floodwaters from the swollen White River reached the city streets, spacious park and many ...

Two people were critically injured early today when a car struck a power pole and landed in a ditch in Algona, the Valley Regional Fire Authority reported.