Jeff Smeed looks at Tacoma in a way few other people do: in ice cream sales. When the weather is…
The Jennie Reed, Whitman and Lincoln neighborhoods and the City of Tacoma will host a neighborhood cleanup April 30 from…
Gov. Chris Gregoire and Employment Security Commissioner Karen Lee announced this week that $23 million in federal stimulus grants are…
The Tacoma School District announced yesterday that historic Lincoln High School has received six national awards recoginizing the school’s renovation,…
The City of Tacoma is considering a 10-year interlocal agreement that would transfer the ownership and maintenance of 14 City-owned…
Pierce County Superior Court judges and Gray Lumber recently volunteered to paint the home of a senior citizen this summer….
!["The nice thing about a [passenger] train is you can see what the country looks like -- you can look right out into people's backyards," says historian, author, and retired railroad employee Jim Fredrickson, who has amassed a collection of passenger train memorabilia. (PHOTO BY TODD MATTHEWS)](https://www.tacomadailyindex.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/070208_passenger_train1_web.jpg)
In the early-1940s, as a teenager at Stadium High School, Jim Fredrickson was a common fixture near Union Station in…
