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Local Life/September 22, 2026
The Courier-Herald has covered Enumclaw since 1900. Its last downtown office closed in 2026, its archive went to the museum, and one reporter works from home.
Local Life/September 22, 2026
Ballots for the November 3, 2026 election mail by October 16. Online registration closes October 26; after that, in person until 8 p.m. on election day.
Local Life/September 22, 2026
Enumclaw draws its water from four sites east of town. Two are rated highly susceptible, none is fluoridated, and the Tacoma backup has sat unused since 2003.
Local Life/September 21, 2026
Enumclaw dedicated a hospital to 60 war dead on Memorial Day 1949, then tore it down in 2011 and paved it for 150 cars. Where the plaque with the names went.
Local Life/September 17, 2026
Enumclaw counts from 1885. The Muckleshoot count from before Rainier fell: two treaties, an 1857 order, the Boldt ruling, a casino tent, the forest above town.
Local Life/September 16, 2026
Four state highways leave town in four directions. One was paid for with ox hides, one was built for coal, one leads to a tent that became the biggest casino in Washington, and the state describes the whole town in a single comma.
Local Life/September 16, 2026
Three thousand cows paid for the bank, the insurer and the store. Six dairies are left, the county is still buying the fields, and the soil has not changed its mind.
Local Life/September 16, 2026
A fair nobody can agree on, an insurance company older than the city, a hall that arrived by horse for twenty dollars, and a diner that, at fifty, is the baby of the list.
Local Life/September 16, 2026
Inside the city limits the streets remember a postmaster, a well and a coal creek. Outside them, they count the distance from Pioneer Square. A field guide to both systems and the line where they collide.
Local Life/September 15, 2026
Seven stops on foot: three King County landmarks, one National Register storefront, a museum that is not a courthouse, and the corner where a bank was carried across the street.
Local Life/September 13, 2026
The population, the commute, the schools, the rain, the volcano, and the honest downsides of living at the end of the road in southeast King County.
Local Life/September 11, 2026
In praise of the Saturday transfer-station run, where the whole plateau turns out and pretends it only came for the yard waste
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