2022 Year in Review for the VOICE of the Valley

2022 Year in Review with the titles of the front pages stories throughout the year are below.

January 2022

City Of Black Diamond Continues To Battle Past Business 

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Tahoma Girls Swimming & Diving: Girls win West Central District III 4A 

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Greater Maple Valley Unincorporated Area Council Biennial Survey 

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Postmaster Denise Lovejoy To Retire From Hobart Post Office

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February 2022

King’s Schools Open House

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Motorsports Swap Meet at Pacific Raceways

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New Grant Program Funds Cleanups To Provide Affordable Housing

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Dunn Calls Proposal To Stop Booking Into Jail For Certain Crimes ‘Absolutely Negligent’

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Venue Secured for 2022 THS Graduation

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GMVUAC: Fossil Fuel Facility Permitting

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Summit Trail Students Get “Creative with Cardboard” in STEM

March 2022

Tahoma School District has a Traffic announcement on bus route changes

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Tahoma Junior Bears are the USA Nationals 1st place and Grand Champions!!!!

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Maple Valley Library held a Story Time at the Pavilion in Maple Valley

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Tahoma National Cemetery will be posting a VIRTUAL Vietnam Veterans Commemoration Ceremony

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GMVUAC: Fireworks Prohibition

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Mountain View Firefighters McKelvey, Voigt, Leonard and Jerde on completing the 2022 LLS Firefighter Stairclimb

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Wine and Dine the SnoValley Rails

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Judy Beliveau Selected as Tahoma High School’s Next Principal

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April 2022

Beautiful floral arrangement watercolor paintings that our 1st graders in Ms. Nguyen’s class

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Councilmember Reagan Dunn Meets Tahoma Student Advocates for Mental Health and Addiction

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Tony Davis is Tahoma’s next Director of Equity & Family Partnerships

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Tahoma High School’s next head football coach, Zach Myers

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Dunn: Controversial Asphalt Plant Will Have ‘Harmful Ramifications For Generations To Come’

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Seniors Succeeding in Power Equipment Tech

May 2022

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Registration is Open for the 2022 Wreaths Across America Stem to Stone Races

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KCLS To Clear Late Fines

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WSP Seeking Witnesses To A Shooting On SR 18

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GMVUAC: Rural Area Issues

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Thomas the Tank Engine & Day Out With Thomas Rolls Into Snoqualmie

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2022 Memorial Day Commemoration Ceremony at Tahoma National Cemetery

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June 2022

Maple Valley Days is This Weekend

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Tahoma Seniors Graduate

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Tahoma Elementary wins book drive benefiting the Maple Valley Food Bank

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Dunn Awards Martin Luther King Medal of Distinguished Service to the Tahoma High School Student Advocates for Mental Health and Addiction

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Maple Valley Days Float Winners

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Tahoma Alumni Picnic Set for Sunday, July 24 At Mud Mountain Park

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July 2022

Dunn Seeks To Clear Notorious Homeless Encampment Along The Green River

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Missing Person. Have You Heard From Melissa Wolfe?

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GMVUAC: Community Outreach

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Tahoma Alumni Picnic This Sunday

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A Running Start Kicks Off Theme, ‘When Coal Was King’

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August 2022

Laugh Hard and You’ll Live Longer at Alumni Picnic

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Time Capsule Memories Buried Alive

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Community Organization Spotlight: Tahoma School Foundation

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5,500 runners participated in what is known as the Spartan Races

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Tahoma Schools Start School on Thursday, September 1 

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September 2022

Commemorating twenty-five years of service to veterans and their families at Tahoma National Cemetery

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Harlem Wizards vs. Team Tahoma at Tahoma Middle School

GMVUAC: Conserve Our Futures 

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Tahoma High School Drama Club has been selected as the ONLY school in Washington state granted the rights to perform the official version of Frozen: The Musical, premiering in January 2024.

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October 2022

The 24th Annual Maple Valley Model Train Show is coming

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Catch The Halloween Train For A Trip To Family Friendly Storytelling!

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2nd Annual Pacific Raceways Invitational event at the “Place to Race” 

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Spooktacular Halloween House is Open 

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November 2022

Visit Santa This Holiday Season At The Northwest Railway Museum 

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Pacific Raceways held its 4th Annual Trunk or Treat 

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Santa May Ride Train Into Town 

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King County Fire Chiefs Association will hold its third semi-annual Diversity and Recruitment Workshop 

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Holiday Magic Returns to the Washington State Fair 

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Black Diamond, Covington and Maple Valley hold Hometown Christmas 

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December 2022

Camaraderie Takes Center stage This Christmas 

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Maple Valley’s Tree Lighting Rescheduled From Last Week 

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Jingle Bell Bash Makes a Splash at Lake Sawyer Church! 

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GMVUAC: King County Department of Local Services 

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The Very Merry Christmas House ~ FREE SHOW ~ NOW SHOWING DAILY 

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Ice storm left many people stranded and not able to get out of their driveways to get to work.