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Suspect charged in Covington murder
BY KRIS HILL
BY TJ MARTINELL
khill@covingtonreporter.com
tmartinell@covingtonreporter.com
Covington’s economy turned a corner in 2012, which means there is more good news to report as the City Council prepares to approve the 2013 budget in December. In his budget message at the Oct. 9 City Council meeting, City Manager Derek Matheson wrote, “Major benchmarks have trended upward this year changing the COVINGTON outlook from one of concern to cautious optimism.” Matheson pointed to the fact the city seemed to do well despite the slower recovery the country has experienced since the 2008 recession took hold and Covington “continues to capitalize on
Austin Tyronne Stein, 26, was charged with second degree murder by the King County Prosecutor’s Office in the bludgeoning death of a Covington man Nov. 4. According to the charging papers Stein allegedly murdered Bill Smith, who lived in the same neighborhood on 172nd Place Southeast in Covington, after a dispute. CRIME King County UPDATE Sheriff ’s deputies were first dispatched to the Covington home around 5:30 p.m. after they received a call from someone claiming their roommate had been shot and that the suspect was still at the scene. The suspect was described as a black male
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Sushi For A Cure
Trista McDonough, 9, holds onto a check presented by Trapper’s Sushi staff to her mother, Tina McDonough, on behalf of the Valley Girls & Guys 3 Day Walk for the Cure team. Trapper’s donated 100 percent of proceeds during dinner Oct. 22 at all five of its locations and raised more than $17,000 for the team. KRIS HILL, The Reporter To view a slide show go to www.maplevalleyreporter.com.
Kentlake’s sacred quest for the Holy Grail in ‘Spamalot’ BY TJ MARTINELL tmartinell@covington.com
Devin Bovee who plays Sir Lancelot, cries out as Mackenzie Visser, who plays the Lady of the Lake, stares at the killer rabbit’s nasty big pointy teeth. TJ MARTINELL, The Reporter To view a slide show go to www.covingtonreporter.com.
Editor’s note: This article is written in a tone similar to the material the musical is based on. Pam Cressey is not dead yet. In fact, she’s getting better. And she has Monty Python’s Spamalot to thank for that. Of course, not literally. It didn’t actually “save” her in the medical or spiritual sense, naturally. But it was the Broadwayadaptation of Monty Python and the Holy Grail’s irreverent sense of humor, its finely tuned wit, that helped her through several hard times as the Kentlake Drama director fought and finally vanquished pancreatic cancer. And now Kentlake Drama will have the
chance to provide such magical mirth through their production of “Spamalot” in order to give the people of Kent and Covington under considerable economic stress in this period of history an example. Much like King Arthur in his search for the Holy Grail, Cressey was determined to be among the first teachers to get the sacred rights to “Spamalot” after she saw it in 2009. Those sacred rights she ultimately obtained in May of the year of our Lord 2012 while she was in New York. That’s New York City, by the way, not New York State, in case of any confusion which might have arisen. Of course, there are five boroughs in NYC, so this isn’t
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entirely accurate, either. I mean, if we didn’t want to generalize and strove to be hyper specific we would want to name the actual street and address. Editor’s note: We apologize for the fault in the writing. The writer responsible for this story has been sacked. From there, the quest to put the production on stage began almost immediately thereafter. As the musical involved both disco and tap dancing, the students had to learn the intricacies of the art beginning in July, which continued up until the school year started. The first day of class was a workshop for the production, and on the second day auditions were held. And on the third day the women went to the tomb, they saw that the stone, which was very large, had been rolled away. As they entered the tomb, they saw a young man dressed in a white [ more SPAMALOT page 6]