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The 15-member Community Advisory Committee began the complex task of recommending which K-8, alternative and elementary schools to close, consolidate or relocate at their first meeting last week.

Some members feared their May 26 deadline…MORE

Alki's miniature Statue of Liberty - weather-worn, cracked and vandalized - might soon be recast and re-enshrined with commemorative pavers and a new plaza at Alki Beach.

Northwest Programs for the Arts, which stages the Seattle Music…MORE

The fourth annual Washington Wine Restaurant Awards, hosted by the Washington Wine Commission and the Seattle Times, honored West Seattle's Salty's on Alki with two top honors, the coveted Restaurant of the Year and Sommelier of the Year awards…MORE

The Highline School District's $148 million bond has apparently passed on its first try.

With all votes cast at polls in the March 14 election and most of the absentee votes counted, 64.35 percent (11,311) of Highline voters approved the…MORE

Highline’s first newspaperman has died.

Vance Orchard passed away March 7 in Walla Walla from cancer diagnosed just a week earlier. He was 88.

Mr. Orchard first started writing news stories for the Highline High School newspaper.…MORE

Suzy Preston took it off -- took it all off. All 95 pounds. More than 10 million television viewers can vouch for this.

A recent winner on NBC’s hit program The Biggest Loser, the 29-year-old Des Moines resident was not camera shy.

Overlooking Puget Sound, the bluffs along Shilshole Bay from Golden Gardens to Carkeek Park are unstable and prone to landslides. On Thursday, January 6, a four foot high retaining wall above the railroad tracks running along the shoreline failed…MORE

The Times/News presents a weekly summary of actions on bills by Highline-area legislators.

For complete information, go to www.WashingtonVotes.org -- a free, non-partisan website with plain-English explanations of bills and a record of…MORE

Mayor Greg Nickels was in Ballard last week promoting a number of initiatives for the beginning of his second term in office. The viaduct replacement, in all its permutations, has dominated recent headlines but the mayor's biggest push last week…MORE

Margaret Toomey, daughter of Denis Toomey of West Seattle has been named to the Grinnell College Dean's List for the 2005 fall semester. Toomey is a theatre major. Toomey is one of 267 students honored for outstanding academic achievement by…MORE