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New flood management plan considers more flooding types

By Lauren Gallup October 19, 2023

In Pierce County, levee setbacks have been completed along rivers, including the Puyallup. This picture shows the river running near the Orville Road Setback Revetment. Projects like these are included in the new flood hazard management plan. (Credit: Lauren Gallup / NWPB)

After about five years in the works, the Pierce County Council adopted a new Comprehensive Flood Hazard Management Plan that broadens the scope of what kinds of flooding the county will plan for – from coastal to urban flooding. Angela Angove is the floodplain and watershed services manager with Pierce County Planning and Public Works. She said different types of Read More

Puyallup Tribe honors Native American Heritage Month at local school

By Lauren Gallup November 30, 2022

Dancers in ribbon skirts perform a paddle song. Photo by Lauren Gallup.

As Native American Heritage Month comes to a close, Puyallup tribal members celebrate and acknowledge their heritage with a visit to Puyallup Schools on Tuesday.Read More

The Taste Of Tacoma Has A New Flavor & Some Tacomans Aren’t Happy About It

By Lauren Gallup June 6, 2022

Point Defiance Park in Tacoma, where the Taste of Tacoma had been traditionally held for over 30 years. Now the Taste is moving to the state fairgrounds — and getting a new name. Photo by Lauren Gallup.

Umi Wagoner says he’s not a scone guy. Wagoner is, however, a lifelong fan of The Taste of Tacoma, an event traditionally held over a summer weekend, in Point Defiance Park, with food vendors, arts and knick knacks for perusing and live music.Read More

StoryCorps Northwest: Puyallap Tribe Member Remembers Mother’s Disappearance 20 Years Later

By NPR News March 29, 2019

Carolyn DeFord poses with her mother and daughter in La Grande, Oregon in their last photograph together before Leona disappeared in 1999. Courtesy of Carolyn DeFord

It's been 20 years since Carolyn DeFord, a member of the Puyallup tribe, last saw her mother, Leona Kinsey in La Grande, Ore. DeFord was raised by Kinsey in La Grande. She remembers her mother as independent and self-sufficient, working odd jobs to scrape by.Read More

September Focus: The Internment Of Japanese-Americans

By Gillian Coldsnow September 1, 2018

San Bruno, CA, 29 April 1942: This assembly center has been open for two days. Bus-load after bus-load of evacuated persons of Japanese ancestry are arriving on this day after going through the necessary procedures, they are guided to the quarters assigned to them in the barracks. CREDIT: DOROTHEA LANGE/WIKIMEDIA COMMONS

Every September more than a million people go to the Washington State Fair -- oblivious that the Puyallup fairgrounds site was where people of Japanese ancestry were rounded up and incarcerated during WWII.Read More