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Marce Edwards is the business editor. She has been at The News Tribune for seven years and has written about technology and big businesses in the South Sound including Weyerhaeuser and Russell. Before moving to Tacoma, she worked at The Idaho Statesman in Boise. She is a Northwest native who likes to garden and refuses to use an umbrella. She lives in Tacoma with her husband and two kids.
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John Gillie writes about the aerospace and airline industries, commercial development and consumer issues. During his 30-year-tenure at The News Tribune he has covered issues as diverse as the Native American fishing rights disputes, crime and the courts, the wood products industry and energy. He lived in Tacoma with his family for 25 years, but now lives in Kent because his wife heads a five-state non-profit foundation headquartered in Ballard, and it only seemed a sensible compromise to make considering their workplaces are 40 miles apart.
Kelly Kearsley has been a business reporter at The News Tribune since 2005. She covers the Port of Tacoma and international trade. Being born and raised in Spokane she’s used to living in cities with inferiority complexes and, in fact, prefers it. Prior to working at The News Tribune, she spent three years as a reporter for The Bulletin in Bend, Oregon and another year working stints for The Associated Press and Seattle Times. She graduated from Pacific Lutheran University. She lives in Tacoma with her husband and miniature schnauzer.
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In case anyone has driven by and wondered what's going on at the stripped-down apartment building on 19th and Stevens Streets, here's the situation.
Dobler Management Co. is spending almost $2 million to renovate Boardwalk Apartments at 1825 S Stevens St., across the street from Fred Meyer and a Shell station. The management company is renovating the 1979 building, not just to update the property, but also to improve the neighborhood, Dobler's Senior Vice President David Dearth said.
"The neighborhood can either be bad or good, it's kinda what you make of it," Dearth said. "We want a product that attracts high quality tenants."
Attention James Gilmore of Tacoma, Kelly Heine of Lakewood, Jason Huery of Gig Harbor, Neil Lapham of Puyallup, Steven Lyons of Bonney Lake, Jimmy Overly of Roy, John Russom of University Place, Gregory Fields of Ashford and around 5,594 more of you.
The Internal Revenue has some checks – with your name written thereupon – just waiting.
In Washington, some 6,000 taxpayers have not received their stimulus checks, or, in some cases, refund checks, because the postal service returned them due to address errors.
The checks in Washington total $6.2 million. The stimulus checks average $581, and the refund checks come in at $937.
If you'd like to see if your name appears on the list, we've added it to our database. Click here.
If you'd like your money, or more information, contact the IRS at www.irs.gov or call 800-829-1954.
Two minutes to show time, CEO David Haggerty handed out single-stemmed roses to the women huddled around the TV in his North Tacoma living room.
"I appreciate all the support and everything," Haggerty told his mother, Hazel; wife, Jeanette; daugther, Melissa; sister, Dawn; and friend, Wendy.
The young Tacoma company, which makes a novel bed sheet set with warm fleece on one side and cool cotton on the other, hit the big time at 2 p.m. this afternoon with a six-minute sales segment on the nation's most popular shop-from-home TV station.
I told you the Split the Sheets story in an Oct. 19 column.
So, how did sales go?
