Uncommonly dry weather this early in the summer means having a water conservation plan in mind. Maintaining an attractive garden requires about one inch of rain or other watering per week. As we head into our typically dry summer, the case for…MORE
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Now is the perfect time to invest in downtown, city tells developers
Fri, 07/07/06
When Kemper Freeman, Jr., talks about investment opportunities, people listen.
And when the real estate giant, whose retail developments have virtually established downtown Bellevue, tells an assembled group of Federal Way's most powerful…MORE
A new chapter ahead for FWPS librarians
Fri, 07/07/06
The Federal Way Public Schools (FWPS) will now have a harder time living up to its tagline: "Every Student, a Reader."
The days of a professional full-time librarian presiding over the reference desk and bookshelves at each of our 34…MORE
School seeking options to avoid closure
Fri, 07/07/06
Viewlands Elementary School parents and community members hope their vision to grow Viewlands towards an environmentally focused preschool through eighth grade will make as much sense to the Seattle Public School District as it does to them.…MORE
Homerun celebration
Wed, 07/05/06
Members of the Steel Lake Little League All-Star team embrace in jubilation after slugger Jared Prather (second from left in front) sent a fastball deep over the left field wall during the team's tournament game against Federal Way.
MOREFamily fun featured on Fourth
Tue, 07/04/06
With three fireworks displays, a fly-by and a fly-in, a parade, bike races, and family festivals, there's no reason to leave the Highline area to celebrate the Fourth of July.
Especially with Independence Day falling on a Tuesday this year…MORE
Clash in SeaTac
Tue, 07/04/06
SeaTac lawmakers decided June 27 to delay setting interim design standards around South 154th Street light-rail station that is under construction.
But city council members instructed Planning Director Steve Butler to do more negotiating…MORE
Burien bar owner imports soccer fever
Tue, 07/04/06
World Cup fever is here.
With the international soccer matches winding down to the final teams in Cup competition, Dan House, co-owner of the Tin Room Bar in Burien -- and a former world-class soccer player, is going the extra mile to give…MORE
Widow, stepson are charged
Tue, 07/04/06
First-degree murder charges were filed last week against Velma Ogden-Whitehead, 48, the wife of murdered Des Moines resident Ron Whitehead.
Ogden-Whitehead's 18-year-old son John Ogden and his 17-year-old friend Wilson Sayachack were also…MORE
Sisters make history as they vie for crown
Tue, 07/04/06
History will be made this weekend as two Normandy Park sisters compete for the title of Miss Washington.
When Miss Burien 2006 Melody Gilbert and Miss Burien 2005 Amelia Gilbert walk on the stage Thursday at Tacoma's Champions Centre, it…MORE
