SEFNCO will be installing fiber along Maple and Academy Streets January 21-23, 9 am to 3:30 pm each day. Expect work on the shoulders and minor traffic delays with a flagger along Maple Street from Traffic Avenue Meeker Avenue and on Academy Street from Meeker Avenue to Valley Avenue.
On January 17, Potelco will be installing underground fiber for the new Filbert Acres development. Expect work to affect Parker Road from 8 am to 5 pm. They anticipate single-lane closures, flagger and minor delays.
January 16 and 17, construction work will be conducted in the 3800 block of the West Valley Highway from 7 am to 4 pm. Expect single lane closure/shoulder work that could cause minor (further) congestion.
The former Sumner Meadows golf course property is closed and is not open for public use. This may seem like old news to most, as the golf course has not been operating for the past seven years. However, since its closure, members of the public have largely ignored its closure Read more…
We have a water main leaking under Main Street where it crosses the railroad tracks. In order to make repairs, we will be shutting down Main Street in evenings starting January 13. We expect this project to last about two weeks. Each morning, the road will reopen by about 5 Read more…
Fund 166th/SR410 Interchange Design We’ve done it once, and we need to do it again. With Traffic Avenue, Sumner demonstrated how smart cities can use State investments to build public-private partnerships funding WSDOT interchanges improvements for a fraction of what it would cost the State to fully fund in the Read more…
Whenever the Northwest gets snow, it brings up some questions. Here are the usual ones: What roads do you plow first? First Priority: Forest Canyon Road, Sumner-Tapps Highway, Traffic Avenue and 24th Street interchange with SR 167 Second Priority: all bridges including 142nd Avenue E and Cannery Way Third Priority: Read more…
Sumner has joined the nation-wide effort of proclaiming January as Human Trafficking Awareness and Prevention Month. Human trafficking is a form of modern-day slavery and involves the use of force, fraud or coercion to obtain some type of labor or commercial sex act from a victim. What can you do? Read more…
You can watch the January 6 Sumner City Council meeting live here and as an archive after the meeting ends.
The City of Sumner is increasing the refuse rates in accordance with the contract with D.M. Disposal. The contract calls for an annual CPI adjustment of eighty percent (80%) of the change in the October Consumer Price Index (CPI-U) computed by the Seattle-Tacoma Area, plus an additional 1.3% increase to Read more…