Anderson Island News

Steilacoom Historical School District invites the greater Steilacoom, DuPont and Anderson Island community to say goodbye to Art Himmler, district superintendent for the last 15 years, at a reception today.

Title: RELIGIOUS BULLYING IS A PROBLEM AROUND THE WORLD A friend, a Pakistani journalist, recently came out of the troubled Swat valley in northwest Pakistan and told a chilling tale.

Island Year , by Hazel Heckman While Hazel Heckman's earlier book, Island in the Sound , "dealt primarily with the human population, past and present," Island Year turns "to the ecological world of nature," with month-by-month observations of the natural world of Anderson Island, the southernmost island in Puget Sound.

U.S. Census lister Norma Kouklis of Steilacoom asks fellow worker Bob Madden of Anderson Island a question at the end of class Thursday in Lakewood.

Title: BURNING MAN RAVERS GET A TALKING TO Neo-pagans might want to come up with new gods instead of aping the old ones.

Title: FIRESTORMS MYSTICAL EMPORIUM SPECIALIZES IN WICCAN ITEMS FireStorms Mystical Emporium is perhaps the most unusual shop in this area.

Bob Schneider, right, watches as 70 feet of lifeless Anderson Island electrical cable is hauled onto a work barge anchored off the south end of the island Friday.

Title: RELIGIOUS PATIENTS MORE LIKELY TO GET INTENSIVE LIFE-PROLONGING CARE Cancer patients who rely on religion to cope with their terminal illnesses are more likely to use intensive life-prolonging care, according to a study published this week in the Journal of the American Medical Association.

An early version of this story was posted on the Political Buzz blog at 9:33 p.m. Tuesday.

Some wise guy once joked how fitting it is that all Washington State Ferries vessels have interchangeable bows and sterns.

Washington State Ferries officials are expected to strike up a conversation next week with Pierce County leaders that could lead to extension of the ferry Steilacoom II's lease beyond August.

Tony Sanchez stands outside his vehicle Thursday at the Point Defiance ferry terminal in Tacoma to see how long the line is on the run to Vashon Island.

Residents and businesses on Anderson Island have power thanks to two large generators, but users are urged to cut consumption as much as possible to prevent blackouts, Tanner Electric Cooperative said Friday.

Anderson Island is back on line...sort of. The island off of Steilacoom was plunged into darkness early Saturday morning when the underwater electric cable connected to the mainland malfunctioned.

Officials with the power company serving Anderson Island said Tuesday that they plan to have temporary generator power to the entire island by this afternoon.

No heat ... no running water ... no TV ... no stove. What sounds like a nightmare has become daily life for an entire Pierce County community.

Anderson Island residents will be without power until at least Monday, according to its power provider.

There are no immediate reports of damage from a 4.5 magnitude earthquake that rattled the Seattle and Puget Sound area at 5:25 a.m. Friday Pacific time.

If going green is one of your New Year's resolutions, here's a place to start: Recycle that Christmas tree.

If going green is one of your New Year's resolutions, here's a place to start: Recycle that Christmas tree.