Karen Peterson was named executive editor in August 2008. She served as managing editor of The News Tribune for three years. She joined the paper in 2000 as suburban team leader. She has been a reporter and editor for newspapers in Hawaii and Indiana, and for an Army publication in Germany. During her husband’s first tour at Fort Lewis in the late 1980s, she wrote for The Lakewood Press and started the monthly Pierce County Parent. She is a board member of the Associated Press Managing Editors. She and her husband, a retired Army officer, have two sons and live in Gig Harbor. Email Karen
Managing editor Dale Phelps has been a senior editor at The News Tribune since 1998. Before coming to Tacoma, he was a copy editor and assistant sports editor for 19 years at The Kansas City Star. He's a past chairman of the Northwest Region of the Associated Press Sports Editors. He lives in University Place with his wife and two children.| Email Dale
David Montesino has been the Assistant Managing Editor/Visuals for The News Tribune since December 2005. Montesino oversees the operation of the photography, graphics, design and copydesk departments. He worked at The News Tribune as the presentation team leader in 2000. He has worked as a graphics editor for The New York Times, art director at the L.A. Times and managing editor of The Honolulu Advertiser. Born and raised in the Philippines, Montesino immigrated to the United States in 1984 and studied journalism at Humboldt State University. | Email David
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Six inches of spring snow shut down Northwest Trek Wildlife Park in Eatonville Sunday.
The park is expected to reopen Monday, said spokeswoman Sheelah Medved.
The snow that accumulated by Sunday morning prevented the operation of trams at the park, resulting in the closure, Medved said.
Among the top local stories in Tuesday's News Tribune:
• We're looking at the local impact of the Alaskan volcano. For one thing, a number of Alaska Airlines flights have been canceled because of the present of an ash plume in the Anchorage area.
• If you're a Pierce Transit rider, you're going to be noticing some improvements soon. Pierce Transit is installing a $35 million communications system that will give passengers much more information.
• With a budget shortfall of as much as $15 million to deal with, Puyallup School District officials are considering some radical measures to help close the gap.
As mentioned on this blog last month, some of our readers find the Sudoku puzzle that appears daily in SoundLife to be too simple.
We switched puzzle vendors in January from Pappocom to Creators Syndicate, which distributes Janric Classic Sudoku.
Features editor Norma Martin passed the complaint to Creators and recently heard back from them that harder puzzles are on the way. Beginning the week of April 26, the silver and gold puzzles will be made more difficult.
Another complaint we've received is that the size of the Janric Classic Sudoku puzzle is too small. In response to that we've recently had the vendor increase the size. We measure things in picas, which is a printer's unit equal to about one-sixth of an inch. Here's how the current puzzle size stacks up against our previous puzzle from Pappocom and the original version of the Janric puzzle. Our current puzzle is larger than both.
| Puzzle | Size (in picas) | Area (in picas) |
| Pappocom | 13.5 x 14.5 | 195.75 |
| Janric before change | 13.0 x 13.0 | 169.00 |
| Current Janric | 15.5 x 13.0 | 201.50 |
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