Lawmakers in Sea-Tac International Airport's home city are alarmed at the Port of Seattle's plans to possibly extend a runway into Des Moines Creek Park.
Port officials don't know what the fuss is about.
Area law enforcement officers will eat, sleep and play on the roofs of Krispy Kreme stores this weekend while they collect donations from customers for Special Olympics.
Among the participating stores in the Cops on Doughnut Shops event will be the Krispy Kreme at 1900 First Ave. S.
This year's goal is to raise $50,000 for Special Olympics during this three-day event at Washington Krispy Kreme stores.
An Air Force flight nurse from Burien was promoted to the rank of major on March 29.
Teresa Trillo has been a member of the Air Force Reserves for 29 years, serving in both the enlisted and officer corps.
During 2005 she deployed twice for 120-day tours in Washington, D.C., and St.
Get a taste of all of the arts, from visual to culinary, during Burien's fourth annual Spring Stroll Art Walk.
The art walk on Saturday, May 5, from 10 a.m.
A hit-and-run collision just north of Burien last month left active community volunteer Teresa Vert with a broken rib, five breaks in her pelvis and kidney damage.
"It was a block and a half from my house on South 112th Street and Eighth Avenue South at a four way stop," she recalled recently.
"I looked and there was nobody coming.
SeaTac City Council members reviewed on April 24 design plans for a fabric-covered band shell at Angle Lake Park.
Michael Fuhrman from Rainier Industries in Tukwila told lawmakers the "simple but elegant" nautically themed shell would consist of four steel pipe posts holding an asymmetrical Teflon-and-vinyl fabric cover.
Audience members watching performers at the band shell will see Angle Lake in the background with Mount Rainier off to the right, according to Fuhrman.
He said the storm and earthquake resistant shell is covered by a 15-year warranty.
For weeks, Jill Ochsner has been glued to her television set. The evening of April 18 was no exception.
It was a memorable night as she watched Sanjaya Malakar be voted off of American Idol. Ochsner knows Sanjaya well-especially his famous, thick head of hair.
Sanjaya has graced her hairdresser's chair twice as she helped prepare him for stardom. She has colored and cut his locks.
A picnic honoring the memory of former Highline Public Schools Superintendent Carl Jensen will be held Saturday, May 26, at Camp Waskowitz.
The public is invited to attend.
Mr. Jensen, who was superintendent from 1953 to 1971, died last November at the age of 97.
He had requested that a picnic be held at Camp Waskowitz in lieu of a memorial service, and he set aside money in his will to pay for the event.
Perhaps the most respected and best-loved leader in Highline history, Mr.
Bail was set at $5 million Monday for a man accused of shooting his wife to death Friday evening in Des Moines.
Monique Vance was at her brother's apartment in the 21800 block of 31st Avenue South when witnesses said they heard shots around 7 p.m. on April 27.
Investigators were told Vance came down the apartment stairs with a man chasing her while firing a gun. She was discovered dead outside an across-the-street duplex.
Vance was given a SeaTac Municipal Court order barring contact from her husband on Feb. 20.
SeaTac lawmakers reacted angrily on April 24 to a disclosure by Port of Seattle officials that the Port may take part of Des Moines Creek Park to extend a runway at Sea-Tac International Airport.
Elizabeth Leavitt, Port aviation environmental programs manager, and David McCraney, Port environmental services manager, emphasized that the extension is "the most uncertain" of the Port's long-range projects planned after 2010.
But since the possible extension is part of the Port's master study and draft environmental impact statement, Leavitt said the Port is legally bound to
