Community

News focusing on Parkland and the greater Pierce County community.

Empty buildings haunt Garfield Street

By Taylor Lunka, News Writer Empty rooms, bare sidewalks and vacant buildings sit where local businesses used to serve the Parkland community on Garfield Street. These businesses moved out almost a year...

Kent Kindergarteners come to college

By Caitlin Beesley and Dania Tolentino, Guest Writers Chris Knutzen Hall rang with shouts of “don’t touch anything yet!” as an army of kindergarteners from Martin Sortun Elementary School invaded the...