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Sixteen local graduating seniors received scholarships ranging from $1,250 to $2,500 from residents at the senior housing community.
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As Kimberly Shaw recalls her arduous four-year journey to open the first licensed child-care center on the Key Peninsula, she holds an infant boy in her lap. Getting a permit for a child-care center has been more difficult than Shaw, director of the nonprofit Key Peninsula Cooperative Preschool, initially envisioned. The process has been filled
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Some people call Pat Furman, owner of The Floatation Device in Purdy, the town’s unofficial mayor.
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The policy said that the district could fire teachers whose online speech “has an adverse impact on district operations.”
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The TideHawks NJROTC team from the Peninsula School District will represent Washington state in the 250th National Memorial Day Parade on Monday.
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Harbor History Museum and other local institutions also face the potential loss of grant funds and other revenue sources.
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About 50 students at Discovery Elementary School are sick in what the Tacoma-Pierce County Health District believes is an outbreak of norovirus. A Peninsula School District statement said school administrators identified a possible problem on Thursday, May 8. By Friday, 50 students were absent or went home early. Norovirus is a highly contagious disease that
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The library system says its investigation into what caused the problem is ongoing, and it doesn’t have an estimate on when service will be restored.
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Peninsula School District says it is involuntarily transferring 24 teachers, including some elementary STEM specialists, to head off a budget crisis.
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West Sound Tech received $42 million to complete building renovations and PenMet’s Tacoma DeMolay Sandspit Park got four grants worth $2.4 million for improvements.
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