After nine years as a police dog with the Pierce County Sheriff Department, Kramer is hanging up his collar.
Eatonville School District's educational farm opened this fall with a splash of colorful, seasonal learning.
Pierce County Prosecuting Attorney Mark Lindquist took his message of public safety and zero-tolerance for crime to Eatonville for the second time this year.
The dogged efforts of its teachers to help students overcome personal challenges and achieve great things in their studies is shining a light nationally on Evergreen Elementary School.
For 12 years, figuratively and literally, Michael Hill has made a stand on an Eatonville street corner for what he believes: No war, no nukes.
Before a captive audience of wildlife experts and students, and with video cameras in the foreground recording the moment, a fisher scampers from a carrier into the wilderness at Mount Rainier National Park. (Courtesy photo)
Margaret Anderson was killed on duty by a fugitive gunman. Nick Hall died trying to rescue mountain climbers. They and two others who sacrificed their lives in the service of Mount Rainier National Park and the public are being remembered through a new memorial at the park.