The Tacoma-Pierce County Board of Health Tuesday announced the selection of Dr. Anthony Chen, MD, MPH, as the new Director…
A consultant hired by the City of Tacoma to provide recommendations for sparking economic development downtown says the city needs…
The City of Tacoma’s Landmarks Preservation Commission voted unanimously July 23 to recommend City Council add Frisko Freeze to the…
Washington State Department of Agriculture (WSDA) and Washington State Farmers Market Association (WSFMA) will join Gov. Chris Gregoire in proclaiming…
The City of Tacoma’s Landmarks Preservation Commission is expected to vote today on whether to recommend Frisko Freeze, the 58-year-old…
Sound Transits Sounder commuter rail posted a 31 percent gain in ridership during the last three months ending June 30…
The top three governing officials of the Sound Transit board Thursday announced their support for putting a mass transit ballot…
The University of Washington announced yesterday that a University of Washington Tacoma student will join the UW Board of Regents…
Washington State Department of Transportation officials announced Friday design is under way on a WSDOT project to deter people from…
The Washington State Liquor Control Board (WSLCB) will decide whether to approve or reject a request by the city of…
This month, Sound Transit and the BNSF Railway Company will reach the milestone of substantial completion on a series of…
!["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…
If there were ever any doubts about the merits of the D Street Overpass project — with its two-year construction…
