Skip to content
Monday, July 7, 2025
71°F
Sign Out Sign In Subscribe Newsletter Contact Us
  • Sign Out
  • Sign In
    • Search
    • Newsletters
    • Subscriber Center
      • Subscriber Center
      • Subscribe
      • Frequently Asked Questions
    • News
      • News
      • Northwest
      • Submit a Story Idea
      • Submit a Photo
      • Submit a Press Release
    • Business
      • Business
      • Submit Business News
    • Sports
      • Sports
      • Submit Sports Results
    • Life
      • Life
      • Submit a Wedding Announcement
      • Submit an Engagement Announcement
    • Opinion
      • Opinion
      • Letters
      • Submit a Letter to the Editor
    • Contests
    • Obituaries
      • Obituaries
      • Place an Obituary
    • Classifieds
      • Place a Classified Ad
      • Employment
      • Real Estate
      • Transportation
      • Legal Notices
      • Place a Legal Notice
    • Print Editions
    • About Us
      • Contact Us
      • Terms of Use
      • Privacy Policy
    REN
    71°F
    • News
    • Sports
    • Life
    • Business
    • Opinion
    • Contests
    • Letters to the Editor
    • Obituaries
    • Classifieds
    • All Sections
          • News
            • News
            • Northwest
            • Submit a Story Idea
            • Submit a Photo
            • Submit a Press Release
          • Business
            • Business
            • Submit Business News
          • Sports
            • Sports
            • Submit Sports Results
          • Life
            • Life
            • Submit a Wedding Announcement
            • Submit an Engagement Announcement
            • Weather
          • Opinion
            • Opinion
            • Letters to the Editor
            • Submit a Letter to the Editor
          • Classifieds
            • Classifieds
            • Place a Classified Ad
            • Employment
            • Real Estate
            • Transportation
            • Legal Notices
            • Place a Legal Notice
          • Obituaries
            • Obituaries
            • Place an Obituary
          • Subscriber Center
            • Subscriber Center
            • Subscribe
            • Frequently Asked Questions
          • Print Editions
          • Newsletters
          • Marketplace
    Articles by Ray Miller-Still
    KCLS to remain closed, but offers online poetry contest, Día celebration
    KCLS to remain closed, but offers online poetry...
    By Ray Miller-Still • April 14, 2020 1:30 am

    Despite library buildings being off-limits, the library system has many virtual programs planned for the spring. Image courtesy King County Library System

    Read Story

    Dentist checking patient’s teeth. Sound Publishing file photo
    Dental foundation serves Medicaid patients through COVID-19
    By Ray Miller-Still • April 3, 2020 7:30 am

    The Arcora Foundation is also attempting to expand its urgent care database, allowing those with different insurances to use its services during the outbreak.

    Read Story

    Unemployment claims continue to climb
    Unemployment claims continue to climb
    By Ray Miller-Still • April 2, 2020 1:30 am

    For the week of March 22-28, claims have reached more than 181,000.

    Read Story

    Enumclaw Rehab center a hotbed for coronavirus
    Enumclaw Rehab center a hotbed for coronavirus
    By Ray Miller-Still • March 31, 2020 7:52 pm

    Ten clients and two employees have tested positive for COVID-19.

    Read Story

    The 2020 census form will look very similar to this sample document. Image courtesy U.S. Census Bureau
    Don’t forget to take the census
    By Ray Miller-Still • March 30, 2020 11:40 am

    Due to the coronavirus, the deadline for responding to the census is Aug. 14, 2020.

    Read Story

    Fighting the coronavirus, 100 masks at a time
    Fighting the coronavirus, 100 masks at a time
    By Ray Miller-Still • March 30, 2020 11:20 am

    In the early 1930s, Dorothy Lucille used whatever she had on hand to patch and mend her family’s clothes during…

    Read Story

    Property tax deadline extended to June
    Property tax deadline extended to June
    By Ray Miller-Still • March 30, 2020 3:00 pm

    This only affects those who pay their property taxes themselves.

    Read Story

    KCLS closes libraries to prevent COVID-19 spread
    KCLS closes libraries to prevent COVID-19 spread
    By Ray Miller-Still • March 13, 2020 2:55 am

    Libraries will close tonight, March 13, at 6 p.m., and are planned to reopen April 13.

    Read Story

    CHI opens 11 COVID-19 screening centers around Washington
    CHI opens 11 COVID-19 screening centers around Washington
    By Ray Miller-Still • March 11, 2020 1:30 am

    Federal Way, Bonney Lake, Puyallup and Enumclaw are some of the places people can go to get tested.

    Read Story

    White nationalism comes to Renton
    White nationalism comes to Renton
    By Ray Miller-Still • January 13, 2020 1:30 am

    Let’s just get down to brass tacks — Patriot Front is a vile organization.

    Read Story

    Horses seized in Enumclaw after allegations of hoarding, abandonment
    Horses seized in Enumclaw after allegations of hoarding,...
    By Ray Miller-Still • December 12, 2019 4:12 pm

    Sharon Hunter said the horses would be staying on the land for just a few weeks — but it’s alleged she more or less abandoned them there.

    Read Story

    Theodore Hill Jr. fought in several of the Civil War’s most famous battles, surviving to eventually settle down in the Buckley area.
    A day in the life of a Union...
    By Ray Miller-Still • November 11, 2019 1:30 am

    A rare piece of history fell into The Courier-Herald’s lap in November 1969 — a Civil War diary.

    Read Story

    Read, and reflect on freedom
    Read, and reflect on freedom
    By Ray Miller-Still • September 28, 2019 1:30 am

    It’s one of my favorite weeks of the year.

    Read Story

    File photo                                The Green River Queen is the star of Black Diamond’s Labor Days parade, and is expected to once again make an appearance.
    Don’t miss Black Diamond’s Labor Day
    By Ray Miller-Still • August 31, 2019 1:30 am

    Labor Day isn’t just the starting bell for the school year — it’s also when Black Diamond throws its biggest…

    Read Story

    Left to right, Ken Beckman, Aaron Beckman, Grant Beckman, Howard Elliot Neely and Jane Neely Beckman. Howard was the then-93-year-old grandson of Aaron Neely, Sr., who built the house. Photo by Karen Meador
    Neely Mansion celebrates its 125th
    By Ray Miller-Still • June 18, 2019 9:55 am

    Make sure to visit the nationally-recognized historical home on June 22.

    Read Story

    Nerd versus flies
    Nerd versus flies
    By Ray Miller-Still • May 18, 2019 1:30 am

    I’ve always held that it would be better to fight 100 duck-sized horses than one horse-sized duck.

    Read Story

    Thom Cantrell, one of the organizers of the upcoming International Conference for Primal People, holds up a mould of a Sasquatch footprint. He said the mould was taken in the Blue Mountains in Oregon by Paul Freeman, a well-known Sasquatch hunter who’s 1994 footage of a Sasquatch in that area made big waves in the believer and skeptic communities alike. Photo by Ray Miller-Still
    All things Sasquatch in Enumclaw
    By Ray Miller-Still • April 21, 2019 9:30 am

    Washington state is famous for countless reasons. It’s the birthplace of Starbucks and Bill Gates, one of the biggest producers…

    Read Story

    Still a ways away, but don’t give pet bunnies for Easter
    Still a ways away, but don’t give pet...
    By Ray Miller-Still • January 14, 2019 1:30 am

    I was going to save this column for spring, to mark the one year anniversary when I rescued my rabbit…

    Read Story

    Renton resident Walter Compare is a member of the King County Sexual Assault Resource Center’s Speakers Bureau and spoke at a fundraiser for the department on Oct. 23. To his left is Ellen Penninger, KCSARC’s Speakers Bureau Manager, and his right, KCSARC’s Events and Corporate Partnerships Manager Madeline Read. Contributed photo
    Sexual assault resource centers report high call volumes
    By Ray Miller-Still • November 8, 2018 1:30 am

    As the #MeToo movement has gathered steam over the last year, local and national sexual assault resource hotlines have seen…

    Read Story

    False rape allegations are not the problem to address
    False rape allegations are not the problem to...
    By Ray Miller-Still • October 17, 2018 1:30 am

    An opinion piece from The Courier-Herald

    Read Story

    • 1
    • 2
    • 3
    • Last

    Sign Up For Our Newsletters

    Subscribe to our e-mail newsletter to receive updates.

    Sign Up

    Featured Local Savings

    • News
    • Sports
    • Life
    • Business
    • Opinion
    Quicklinks
    • Subscriber Center
    • Print Editions
    • Newsletters
    • Media Solutions
    About Us
    • About Us
    • Terms of Use
    • Privacy Policy
    • Accessibility
    • Contact Us
    REN
    • Sound Publishing Inc. Logo
    • A subsidiary of Black Press Media
    • Work With Us
    © 2025 Renton Reporter + Sound Publishing + Black Press Media. All Rights Reserved.
    Powered By NewzBoost