Housing
Whether you are about to PCS, move into a different area at your current duty station or choose your retirement locale, there are a number of criteria that families look at before deciding on a new town or neighborhood. Important factors can include school districts, census information and taxes of
Veterans
While shopping at McChord Field, Cpt. Shanda Taylor-Boyd saw a Ranger newspaper and knew immediately that she'd found the perfect name for the puppy she'd just purchased for her three daughters. But Ranger would grow to mean much more to her - he not only saved her life one day,
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Bobble Tiki doesn’t buy into hype, or at least he tries not to. Sure, he’s got a Vampire Weekend T-shirt, and he recently purchased “The Perfect Pushup,” but for the most part hot air and persistent marketing aren’t enough to peak Bobble Tiki’s interest or inspire him to open his
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Bobble Tiki doesn’t buy into hype, or at least he tries not to. Sure, he’s got a Vampire Weekend T-shirt, and he recently purchased “The Perfect Pushup,” but for the most part hot air and persistent marketing aren’t enough to peak Bobble Tiki’s interest or inspire him to open his
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When the Casanova Family moved to Joint Base Lewis-McChord last May, the Georgia natives wanted to get familiar with their new outdoor surroundings. During the past nine months the Army Family has attended five guided trips with the Northwest Adventure Center, exploring snowy terrain on snowshoes
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Veronica Biblarz For most of us, coming into our own through fashion happens later in life. Thumbing through old photographs, cringing at our stirrup leggings with Keds, glitter eye shadows, pale pink lipsticks, mini skirts with cropped tops, and bushy hair and braces. Wondering “What was I thinking? How is it
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Veronica Biblarz For most of us, coming into our own through fashion happens later in life. Thumbing through old photographs, cringing at our stirrup leggings with Keds, glitter eye shadows, pale pink lipsticks, mini skirts with cropped tops, and bushy hair and braces. Wondering “What was I thinking? How is it
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Urban Pioneer Tobin Ropes used to be a wine man. He knows all sorts of fancy dumbass words to describe the taste of fermented grapes. He is a snob about it, and you feel good about what you have in your glass because he is somehow making everything very comfortable.
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Urban Pioneer Tobin Ropes used to be a wine man. He knows all sorts of fancy dumbass words to describe the taste of fermented grapes. He is a snob about it, and you feel good about what you have in your glass because he is somehow making everything very comfortable.
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Foundation fails It was good news for those who believe in equal human rights for all and bad news for homophobes and Bible thumpers. Monday, April 21 was the deadline for submitting the needed signatures to get a measure on the November ballot, and the Cornerstone Foundation, a group trying to
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Foundation fails It was good news for those who believe in equal human rights for all and bad news for homophobes and Bible thumpers. Monday, April 21 was the deadline for submitting the needed signatures to get a measure on the November ballot, and the Cornerstone Foundation, a group trying to
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Each and every single week that goes by, Tacoma gets smaller and smaller to me. I stand out at my bus stop; I cross the street; I walk into the grocery store, businesses, restaurants; WHATEVER!; and I now know people everywhere I go — more and more each time. I’m not at
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Each and every single week that goes by, Tacoma gets smaller and smaller to me. I stand out at my bus stop; I cross the street; I walk into the grocery store, businesses, restaurants; WHATEVER!; and I now know people everywhere I go — more and more each time. I’m not at
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Tacoma City Manager Eric Anderson has unleashed his latest bold initiative. This time it’s about crime. More specifically, it’s about cutting crime in half by the summer of 2009. The plan was created from feedback given by more than 200 city employees who helped build the skeleton of Anderson’s plan
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Tacoma City Manager Eric Anderson has unleashed his latest bold initiative. This time it’s about crime. More specifically, it’s about cutting crime in half by the summer of 2009. The plan was created from feedback given by more than 200 city employees who helped build the skeleton of Anderson’s plan
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My life has been filled with all forms of stress lately between work and school, but let’s just say that over the weekend I got by with a little help from my friends. Maxwell’s is the place to be! After finishing work at a relentless conference that sucked the life out of
