Larry LaRue
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Past articles by Larry:
Three years of stories about Tacoma area people, dogs, cats and two pigs
This space won’t be vacant Monday. Various news stories, features and photos will easily fit it. For the past three years, though, this column appeared nearly every Monday, Wednesday and Saturday — as did the people, characters, cats and dogs and two pigs who inhabited it. → Read More
Larry LaRue: Tacoma woman watches ‘Star Wars’ in wedding dress for worthy cause
Kelsey Beil misses jeans and sweatshirts, and she’s not alone. → Read More
Larry LaRue: She survived choking and lung cancer diagnosis – and one led to the other
Sometimes when things in life don’t seem to be working out, it’s exactly what you need. → Read More
Larry LaRue: Bus or shuttle? Elderly woman, Pierce Transit don’t fully agree
None of it has gone well for Susan Barnett. Not since her daughter traveled all the way to Alabama to pick her up from a senior home and bring her back to Tacoma last year. → Read More
Touching hearts at Tacoma’s Remann Hall
When Pierce County Superior Court Judge Kitty-Ann van Doorninck nudged her friend, Margaret Ross, to return to volunteer work in the court system, the answer she got was unexpected. → Read More
LaRue: Spanaway teen throws birthday bashes for kids in need
When Spencer Broden was a first-grader, he accompanied his parents when they volunteered at the Tacoma Rescue Mission, and he almost always made friends. → Read More
Larry LaRue: Graham woman finds her niche with wives of slain servicemen
When Arlene Murray attended her first meeting of the Tahoma chapter of Gold Star Wives of America, the group had no idea what it was getting into. → Read More
LaRue: Young, white and Southern, she helped change the civil rights scene
She was born into a white Southern family, to a racist mother who would tell her: “No matter how bad things are, at least ya aren't black.” → Read More
Larry LaRue: Facebook group gives Fircrest woman more than turkey for Thanksgiving
After joining Facebook last summer, Mary Campbell did what everyone does initially. She began snooping around the site. → Read More
Larry LaRue: Remembering a night jazz giants roamed Tacoma stage
Gwen Parker had heard the story. It was one of hundreds her favorite uncle, musician Art Mineo, had told her over the years. → Read More
Larry LaRue: Puyallup-area family, and puppy, rest easier months after fire
Stephen Stoutenburg had one of those rare bachelor evenings in the family’s South Hill home last summer, perfect for grilling a steak and potato and hanging out with the family’s new puppy, Bear. → Read More
Larry LaRue: Book honors the 846 women – non-nurses – who served in Vietnam
When the Vietnam Veterans Memorial added a monument in 1993 to honor the women who served, it reflected the service of 6,250 nurses who went to war — and ignored those who filled other positions. → Read More
Peninsula men learn they’re related, solve mystery of missing ‘J’
Every time his family took a vacation when he was growing up, Hendrick Langhjelm Jr. remembers his father checking telephone books to see if he could find another Langhjelm. → Read More
Fancy that! There’s a pigeon rolling down the lawn
Fancy pigeons roll, tumble, come in multi-colors and win the hearts of their owners, including Keith Chadd of Tacoma and Doreen McCann of Spanaway. → Read More
Larry LaRue: Tuberculosis still a threat to the world — and the South Sound
Anyone in need of a little extra anxiety can go online and type one word into a search engine: tuberculosis. → Read More
Headstone from Fircrest parking lot is no Halloween trick
Taco Time utility excavation yields a mystery that officials and amateur researchers have not been able to crack. → Read More
60 years of wondering leads South Sound man to find big family
Gary Covington, an Olympia resident and Lakewood teacher, has met eight siblings in the last year, including seven he never knew he had. → Read More
Five years later in Fife, a garden for Jayden
Fife detectives Tom Thompson and Jeff Nolta knew it was bad when they saw fellow police officers crying. → Read More
Larry LaRue: He’s American, she’s Chinese — and their common language is love
Pierce County couple courted using translation software, and still use it to understand each other. → Read More
Larry LaRue: Bellarmine Prep – and Puyallup – honor Cubs’ Jon Lester
The Chicago Cubs pitcher will have his high school jersey retired and a Puyallup ballfield named for him, despite rules in Puyallup that made it tricky. → Read More