Northwest Trek set to reopen after cleaning up from January storms
Northwest Trek will reopen Friday after volunteers and staff spent weeks cleaning up debris and repairing damage from a series of January storms. The park was last open to the public Jan. 13-15. In the...
View ArticleWill Eatonville’s police department go?
The Town of Eatonville may hire the Pierce County Sheriff’s Department to provide law enforcement services and dissolve its own police department. Mayor Ray Harper told The News Tribune today that he’s...
View ArticleEatonville School Board interviews candidates for board seat
Members of the Eatonville School Board will interview six potential candidates to fill a vacancy on the school board. The board meets March 28 in the district board room, 200 Lynch St. W. An executive...
View ArticleEatonville School Board appoints new member
Jeff Lucas has been appointed to fill an at-large position on the Eatonville School Board. His appointment lasts until the November election, when he plans to run for the seat. Lucas, who lives near...
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Northwest Trek’s six-millionth (yes, million) visitor could arrive this...
Since Northwest Trek opened on July 17, 1975, people have travelled to the 723-acre park to see native animals in their habitat – bison, elk and moose; cougars, wolves and bears. I dare you not to say...
View ArticleEatonville mayor fires clerk, demotes police chief
Eatonville’s mayor fired the town clerk last week and also demoted the police chief in a separate action. Mayor Ray Harper said Chrystal McGlone, who worked as the clerk for about five years, allegedly...
View ArticleEatonville woman to receive posthumous degree
An Eatonville woman who died while hiking near Leavenworth last summer will receive a posthumous college degree, The Dispatch in Eatonville reports. The paper says Pacific Lutheran University is...
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Northwest Trek’s deputy director dies on park’s anniversary
The man who led Northwest Trek for nearly three decades died Tuesday on the wildlife park’s 37th anniversary. Dave Ellis was 65. His cause of death has not been released. He is remembered as a...
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Conservation fund set up in name of Northwest Trek’s late deputy director
A conservation fund has been set up in the name of Dave Ellis, Northwest Trek’s deputy director who died last month. The David E. Ellis Conservation Fund will support animal health care, animal...
View ArticleFundraisers set Saturday for injured Elbe-area battalion chief
A series of fundraisers to help injured Pierce 23 Fire & Rescue Battalion Chief Bill Tylor are planned Saturday at the Eatonville Eagles Hall, 100 Weyerhaeuser Road N. A pancake breakfast is at 8...
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Volunteers complete projects at Northwest Trek
By Dianne McGinness, Staff writer Nine AmeriCorps volunteers have finished five weeks of work at Northwest Trek, doing everything from building a rock wall to replacing old fencing and clearing out...
View ArticleNorthwest Trek visitors pay on honor system when computers go down
Honesty was the policy at Northwest Trek Wildlife Park on Tuesday. After the computer and phone systems went down in the middle of the day, employees decided to let visitors who didn’t have cash or...
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Orphaned moose released into Northwest Trek’s free-roaming area
Two orphaned moose brought to Northwest Trek last summer have been released into the Eatonville park’s free-roaming area, where people can now see them from the tram. The two calves join two adult...
View ArticleEatonville School Board selects Tacoma schools administrator as new district...
An administrator with Tacoma Public Schools was selected this week to replace the outgoing Eatonville School District Superintendent. Krestin Bahr, the middle school director for Tacoma schools, was...
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Baby fever at Northwest Trek Wildlife Park
It’s that time of year at Northwest Trek Wildlife Park where new babies keep coming. The newest edition is a lamb born Monday to the bighorn sheep herd, bringing that group’s number to 26. Also new is...
View ArticleCouncilman, 2 others file to run for mayor of Eatonville
Town Councilman Gordon Bowman is one of three candidates so far who have filed to run for mayor of Eatonville, according to the Pierce County elections website. In addition to Bowman, Carl (Bud) Lucas...
View ArticleEatonville mayor not running for re-election, files to run for Town Council...
Eatonville Mayor Ray Harper filed Tuesday night to run for a Town Council spot, forgoing another term as mayor. Harper has filed to run for Position 2, according to the Pierce County elections website....
View ArticleFour candidates file to run for mayor in Eatonville
Two council members, a town treasurer and a former fire chief all filed this week to run for mayor of Eatonville. The four candidates filed to run for mayor after Ray Harper opted not to seek a second...
View ArticleMayor movement the theme for Pierce County elections filing week
Several East Pierce County cities and towns could experience a leadership shake-up after the November election, as a number of mayor positions are up for grabs and others have attracted challengers....
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Northwest Trek adopts orphaned fox kits
A group of orphaned fox kits found in an irrigation pipe in Idaho can now call Eatonville’s Northwest Trek Wildlife Park home. The park’s zoological curator, Heidi Hellmuth, traveled to Zoo Boise May...
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