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2026 High School District Volleyball tournament preview
High school volleyball district tournaments are set to begin and here are the local matchups between teams before the state tournament. 3A West Central District games are at Mount Tahoma High School in Tacoma with games in the main and auxiliary gyms. The 4A tournament is going between the old and new Bethel High School in Graham.
VOICE of the Valley
Up Green River: A History of Native Residents and Westward Settlers, 1853-1963
Join Author and Historian Richard Latham and co-author Joan Wright as they discuss their upcoming book featuring the histories of Native residents and Westward settlers along the Green River and surrounding areas on Saturday, November 14, 2026 from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. At Neely Mansion located at 12301 SE Auburn-Black Diamond Road, Auburn, WA 98092. www.neelymansion.org.
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PSE Seeks Tacoma LNG Permit Tweaks, Puyallup Tribe Cries Foul on Safety Review
Puget Sound Energy has asked the Puget Sound Clean Air Agency to revise several terms in the air permit for its Tacoma Tideflats LNG facility. The requested edits concern the tank’s listed capacity, a gas-storage temperature condition, sulfur reporting and the accounting of boil-off gas. PSE says they would not change the facility’s operations; the Puyallup Tribe of Indians is urging the agency to examine the changes before deciding whether to approve them.
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Two lanes of eastbound Narrows Bridge to close overnight Friday
It’s the eastbound Tacoma Narrows Bridge’s turn to close a couple lanes. Washington State Department of Transportation will close the right two lanes of the newer bridge from 8 p.m. Friday, Nov. 13, until 6 a.m. Saturday, Nov. 14. The toll booth plaza and the ramps from 24th and 36th streets to eastbound Highway 16 also will close.
Tacoma News Tribune
Tacoma's beloved yarn store and hidden gem turns 48. Look inside
Hidden in an alley shop in downtown Tacoma, colorful skeins of yarn sat in organized rows, stacked floor to ceiling as employees in hand-knit sweaters guided customers through the vast selection. Fibers Etc. , now the only yarn store in the City of Destiny, celebrates 48 years open this year. You can still find beloved 86-year-old owner and founder Roberta Lowes teaching weaving classes and patiently helping fiber artists with their projects at 2511 S. Hood St., on the edge of the Dome District. Lowes co-founded the shop in the late 1970s and has weathered the COVID-19 pandemic and high tariffs. Nearly a half-century later, Fibers Etc. remains a fixture for knitters, crocheters, weavers, sewists and others who get lost in the variety of buttons, patterns, tools, books, fabric and natural yarn, which range in color, composition and style. Twice a week the store closes to offer “help clinics,” where experienced staff offer guidance and tips to people struggling with their projects. It began in 1978 when Lowes and two other handweavers with the Tacoma Weavers Guild met over coffee and decided Tacoma needed a supply store, as the closest one was in Seattle, Lowes said. The trio opened Fibers
auburn-reporter.com
Valley SWAT assists in operation leading to arrest of Mexican national involved in gun and drug trafficking
Valley SWAT, comprised of officers from the Renton, Federal Way, Kent and Auburn police departments, joined a host of other agencies in assisting in a law enforcement operation last year that led to the arrest of a Mexican national who managed and protected a drug stash house with a dangerous weapon.
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Superintendent Spotlight: Joel Kachmarek, Tacoma Country and Golf Club
For more than three decades, Joel Kachmarek’s career has been closely connected to Tacoma Country and Golf Club. He first joined the club as Assistant Superintendent in 1993 and, except for a brief stop at Kitsap Golf and Country Club, has spent nearly his entire professional life there. In May 1999, he returned as Golf Course Superintendent, a position he has now held for more than 27 years.
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KIRO 7 Seattle
Farmers fear another winter of flooding as questions surround Kent pump
It has been nearly a year since historic flooding inundated farms, homes, and SR 167 between Kent and Auburn . Residents in unincorporated King County are still rebuilding and questioning whether enough has been done to prevent it from happening again. Last December, floodwaters swept across farmland near the Green River, forcing some residents to evacuate themselves, animals and leaving behind there homes in the rising waters. Don Kramer and his wife’s business and property are still recovering. “We’re still not where we want to be all the way, but we’re a lot better than we were,” he said. Don estimates the flooding caused roughly $100,000 in damage. “I’m getting nervous as December gets closer,” he said. When water began rising last winter, Don told KIRO 7 his family scrambled to move their animals to higher ground. “We started having to make decisions on, ‘Oh, the pigs are shorter, so we got to get them out now because they’re going to drown,’ and pick the shortest animals first,” he said. Don said his property had never flooded like that before. He pointed to longtime plants around the home that were killed by the flood as another indication of just how
MyNorthwest.com
SR 167 overnight closure kicks off week of roadwork in western WA
The Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT) continues late-night work this week on some of its bigger projects, bringing lane and ramp closures. There is one full closure on Monday evening on SR 167 through Renton that drivers will need to pay attention to and seek alternate routes. Northbound SR...
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Auburn Mountainview’s state tournament run ends at hands of Silas
After a season where the Auburn Mountainview Lions girls’ soccer team missed the playoffs entirely. This year the Lions found themselves in the state tournament for the first time since 2022 and just the second time since 2014. But the history would end there as the Lions fell 1-0...
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Tacoma Card Shop Burglars Used a 2006-07 Ram Heavy Duty, and Police Want the Truck
It isn’t the Pokémon cards that might break this case open. It’s the pickup the burglars used to get to them. Tacoma police and Crime Stoppers of Tacoma/Pierce County are asking the public to help identify the truck used in two commercial burglaries at Knutsen’s Sports Cards on 6th Avenue. The Crime Stoppers listing files it as a commercial burglary under Tacoma Police case 26-306-00255. The most recent break-in was early Monday, Nov. 2. Police say that in both burglaries, the thieves backed a pickup through the store’s rear metal doors, not through a wall, and drove off with trading cards. The owner puts the loss at roughly $50,000, mostly sealed Pokémon and Magic: The Gathering product.
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61st Auburn Veterans Parade receives regional site designation
During a stormy weekend, the clouds parted Saturday during the commencement of the 61st annual Veterans Parade and Observance in downtown Auburn. A staple event in the city’s history, this year’s Veterans Parade, which took place the morning of Nov. 7, was designated by the Veterans Day National Committee and the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs as a Regional Site for the 2026 celebration of Veterans Day.
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Man dies from injuries in Kent crash Nov. 1 along I-5
A driver could be facing a vehicular homicide charge after a passenger in his vehicle died from injuries suffered in a Nov. 1 crash along Interstate 5 in Kent. Sterling Smith, 27, of Atlanta, Georgia, died from his injuries, according to an updated press memo Nov. 8 from the Washington State Patrol (WSP). An earlier press memo listed the passenger who was critically injured as a 25-year-old Kent man, but that name was later corrected by WSP to Sterling Smith, of Atlanta.