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Charting a path to recovery: Comprehensive mental health and addiction services
Well-known for providing compassionate, research-based care and support to some of the most vulnerable members of our community, Valley Cities Behavioral Health Care is a community leader in mental health and addiction services. “Recovery from mental health illnesses and/or substance abuse is never linear,” says Jessica Forshee-Setzer, MS, LMHC, MHP...
Popular Store With 132 Locations In WA Plans Mass Closures
Covid has done a negative number on many businesses since 2020 and is still going. We're hearing more and more about businesses closing their doors due to poor performance and low sales. Some of them, including Bed, Bath, and Beyond, Big Lots, Red Lobster, and Rite Aid are affected. It will be interesting to see what happens by year end.
Tacoma's Art on the Ave Showcasing Local Creativity This Weekend
The 24th-annual Art on the Ave festival is set from noon-7 p.m. this Sunday on Tacoma's 6th Avenue, between Alder and State streets. The 6th Avenue Business District-produced event will host 240 arts and food vendors in addition to musicians and all-ages activities representing the diversity of the South Sound area, a release said.
Murrary requests health care services audit after Tacoma ICE facility death
Democratic Sen. Patty Murray of Washington has formally requested that federal auditors review health care services in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facilities and the agency’s compliance with its own detention standards. Murray’s letter to the Government Accountability Office was sent several months after a 61-year-old detainee, Charles Leo...
Report: Whatcom County deaths of unhoused people on pace for record amount
More people are dying on the streets of Whatcom County, according to a new report. Opportunity Council, a non-profit that works closely with the unhoused, said so far there have been 56 documented deaths this year. The number is on pace for a record amount of deaths among people living on the street in the county.
upTOP Overland Kilo Roof Rack – Install & Review
There’s no shortage of roof rack options for the Tacoma. Considering the small cab and limited bed space, having a place to mount and store large gear can be extremely useful. As we build our rigs, most of us are cost-conscious. Aftermarket parts’ costs have risen dramatically, and things...
New blues festival coming to the Kitsap Fairgrounds over Labor Day Weekend
The inaugural Kitsap Blues Festival will kick off Labor Day weekend, with local and national acts coming to the Kitsap Fairgrounds for a three-day event organized in partnership with the Admiral Theater. “We’re going to have so much live music at the fair the week before that it just created...
Brittany Force returns to racing at Pacific Raceways
Flav-R-Pac Top Fuel Dragster driver Brittany Force is returning to the track this weekend. She will be competing at Pacific Raceways outside of Seattle, Washington. She returns to the NHRA Mission Foods Drag Racing Series after missing a race. She skipped the Summit Racing Equipment NHRA Nationals at Norwalk, Ohio.
Mariners Trade Proposal Lands $2.6 Million Former All-Star in a 4-Player Swap
The Seattle Mariners are leading the way in the American League West with a 52-46 record. However, according to MLB Network’s Jon Morosi, the club will be looking for an “everyday bat” at the July 30 trade deadline. A trade proposal from Bleacher Report’s Robbie Hyde brings Miami Marlins Jazz Chisholm Jr. to Seattle.
PHOTOS: Nika Muhl Looked Absolutely Stunning In Her All-Black Pregame Outfit That Showed Plenty Of Skin
The Seattle Storm played an important WNBA game against the Minnesota Lynx on Friday, and Nike Muhl came dressed for the occasion. Muhl was turning heads with another elite WNBA pregame outfit on Sunday. The Seattle Storm have been playing some of their best basketball in recent weeks, and it...
Cutter & Buck finds perfect fit for order picking efficiency
The path to automated order picking at Cutter & Buck’s fulfillment center in Washington state began in its legacy pick module during the pandemic, when it was highly challenging for the apparel company to add peak season labor. First in 2020, and again in the holiday peak in late 2021, the combination of surging e-commerce sales and the labor availability constraint prompted Cutter & Buck leadership to pitch in directly to help.
Homeless Native Americans are Likely to Feel the Negative Impact of US Supreme Court Ruling
Last month, the United States Supreme Court ruled that cities can ban people from sleeping and camping in public places in a decision Native advocates say will disproportionately impact Indigenous people. But in Seattle, Washington—a state with the sixth highest rate of unhoused people in the country—Native advocates say that the Indigenous population should remain protected by their organizations.
Former Husker Josh Caron selected by Seattle Mariners in the fourth round
A former Nebraska baseball player was taken in the MLB draft on Monday afternoon. The Seattle Mariners, with the 121st overall in the 2024 MLB Draft, selected catcher Josh Caron in the fourth round. Caron is the seventh Husker in school history to be picked in the fourth round. He is the second highest-taken catcher in school behind Bill McGuire, who was taken in the 1985 draft with the 27th overall pick. Caron also helped continue Nebraska’s streak. They have had at least one draft selection in 30 of the last 31 drafts since 1992, outside the shortened draft in 2020 due...
Olympia School District adopts school year 2024-2025 budget
The Olympia School District (OSD) adopted Resolution No. 657, containing the budget for the school year 2024-2025, during its second reading last week, July 11. Executive Director of Business and Capital Projects Kate Davis led the budget’s second reading, with only minimal technical aspects revised from the previous version.
UW president to step down
SEATTLE — Ana Mari Cauce, who has served as president of the University of Washington for a decade, announced Wednesday that she’ll be stepping down at the end of her second five-year term in June 2025. She plans to return to her faculty position. “While I never imagined...
Top Fuel's Shawn Reed thrilled to be at home, and under the lights, in Seattle
Shawn Reed’s first time at a dragstrip came at Pacific Raceways, when he experienced the magic of drag racing growing up. Now behind the wheel of an 11,000-horsepower Top Fuel dragster, Reed will get to be part of another Pacific Raceways first this weekend in Seattle at the 35th annual NHRA Northwest Nationals.
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