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Safe and Stable Communities Sales Tax Proposal Seeking to Prevent Public Safety Cuts Up for Vote at Council

Tuesday’s vote will determine whether the Council moves forward with implementing a local 0.1% sales tax to address a looming public safety crisis. If...

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Black Diamond Police Reports

On 6/16/2025 at 0106 hours, the Black Diamond Police Department was dispatched to an illegal discharge near the 31100 block of 3rd Avenue. It...

Black Diamond Police Reports

6-5 to 6-15, 2025 On 06/05/2025, Officers were conducting patrol operations in the 30400 block of 3rd AVE when they queried a vehicle’s license plate...

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High Schools, You Ready to Run?

Here's your chance Friday May 30, 2025 at “The Place to Race”, Pacific Raceways.  This is the 54th Annual Green River College All High...

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WHEN COAL WAS KING: “In movie math, 13 hours = 40 seconds.” 

The newspaper headline read, “In movie math, 13 hours = 40 seconds.”  Fifty years ago this month, actors, props, cameras, and recording equipment came...

AN ENCOURAGING WORD: After All Is Said And Done

It is said, "Life is what happens along the way," yet when the light begins to dim on life, there are those whose golden...

AN ENCOURAGING WORD: Too Perfect to Be Chance

“If the earth were as small as the moon, the power of gravity would be too weak to retain a sufficient atmosphere for man’s...

AN ENCOURAGING WORD: After All Is Said and Done

It is said, "Life is what happens along the way," yet when the light begins to dim on life, there are those whose golden...

WHEN COAL WAS KING: B. B. Jones Home, 1885 

After Victor Tull’s 1880 discovery of the McKay coal seam in the Green River Gorge, also found two miles west in what would become...
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