The Maple Valley Post joined the Seattle Times’ News Partner Network today. The partnership means that more people in Western Washington will learn about happenings in Maple Valley, one of the fastest growing suburbs of Seattle. Stories from the Post will be featured on the Seattle Times’ home page on occasion, and every day the [...]
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Tahoma kindergarten registration coming up soon
Parents planning to send their kids to Tahoma School District kindergarten next year have just about a week and a half to prepare for registration. Registration is scheduled for the week of March 12 to 16 at all four elementary schools for both half-day and all-day kindergarten sessions. All-day kindergarten often fills up, so parents [...]
Maple Valley Post needs you
Thanks for reading the Maple Valley Post. You’ll see a bit of a slowdown in stories over the next week due to Winter Break, but they’ll pick up again soon. Meanwhile, you may have noticed that several of our pages depend on reader input: Things To Do, Meet Neighbors and Events Calendar. If you have [...]
Tahoma students present in Olympia
Tahoma students are in the forefront of a new project that aims to improve the way we all interact with the environment. The Watershed Report recruits teens from school districts along the Cedar River watershed to spend their summer learning about “sustainability” — how personal behavior and government policy can help keep air and water [...]
Glacier Park wins achievement award for fourth year
For the fourth year straight, Glacier Park Elementary has earned the Washington Achievement Award for Overall Excellence, placing it among the top 5 percent of schools in the state. Second-year principal Chris Thomas credits teachers and support staff at the elementary, which has an enrollment of 843 students. “We start working on students meeting standards [...]
Tahoma school board considers alternatives to bond rerun
Tahoma’s overcrowded schools have made regional news since the construction bond failed last spring, and the school board is now trying to decide what to do, which may not include rerunning the same bond — or any bond — in the near future. “They are beginning to look at options and seeing how feasible some [...]
Snow days alter school calendar
Tahoma’s week-long winter break coming up in February won’t change despite four snow days in January. “It would really have to be an unusual situation” to take days away from winter break, says school district spokesman Kevin Patterson. Employee contracts and scheduled vacations make altering longer breaks difficult. “You’re going to be affecting people no [...]
Welcome to the Maple Valley Post
Welcome to the Maple Valley Post, a new community news web site for Maple Valley. The Maple Valley Post, launched in January 2012, works to provide information on a variety of topics in one of the fastest growing communities in the state of Washington. We want to hear what Maple Valley neighbors are talking about [...]
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