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A Roman-style mosaic of small stone and glass tiles in ochre, slate blue and deep green: a short, square-shouldered man in a 1920s suit and hat with a star on his lapel holds a folded paper to his chest and holds open a door of iron bars with a ring of keys in the lock, while a smaller figure in a dark coat walks away up a pale road past forested hills, a coal mine headframe, a winding river and a distant city skyline. — An illustration of Matt Starwich, King County's sheriff from 1921 to 1927, with his citizenship papers and an open cell door for the accuser he asked the governor to pardon. Illustration: Enumclaw.com.

Matt Starwich: the sheriff an ex-mayor swore was no citizen

In 1922 a former mayor swore King County's sheriff was no citizen. Matt Starwich brought the charge that convicted him, then asked the governor to pardon him.

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Things to Do

The Hungry Housewives 12th Annual Craft and Vendor Show

Saturday

Pumpkin Succulent Workshop #1

Sunday

Pumpkin Succulent Workshop #2

Sunday

Trick or Treat on Cole

October 31st

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Where to Eat

Black Diamond Grill

Restaurant / Black Diamond

Bun & Press Food Truck

Restaurant / Buckley

Daily Dose Coffee Co. - Enumclaw

Dessert / Enumclaw

Charlie's Cafe

Restaurant / Enumclaw

The Kettle

Takeout / Enumclaw

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Day Trips

A shallow pool of blue-green water rimmed with rocks gives off faint steam at Olympic Hot Springs, with pale mineral runoff across dark ground, bare alders, mossy evergreens and patches of snow behind it.

Hot springs in Washington open to the public

Local Life

Old headstones, obelisks and a white concrete family plot on a sunlit grassy slope in Black Diamond Cemetery, with a gravel lane at left and tall firs and a monkey-puzzle tree behind under a clear blue sky.

Black Diamond Cemetery ghost stories and the mine beneath it

Outdoors & River

A small lookout cab with windows on every side glows from inside atop a short timber tower, its railed deck and outside stairs dusted with snow, above deep snow and snowy, tree-dotted ridges under a dark blue night sky.

Fire lookout rentals in Washington, and how to book one

Outdoors & River

Snow drifted to the eaves of the Paradise Inn, its steep roof, row of dormer windows and stone chimney heavy with snow under a clear blue sky, with two workers in hard hats at a tunnel entrance cut into the drift.

Mount Rainier snowfall at Paradise averages 53 feet a year

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