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Compiled by Shara Wallace

Deadline for receiving items for Community Calendar is 5 p.m. Wednesday for the following week’s Times/News. Events are published based on timeliness and space availability. Email submissions to: hteditor@…MORE

You’re leaving the house late for work in the morning and you’re hoping to make up the time during the commute.

But it seems like there’s a stoplight at every intersection, even before you get to the clogged freeway… and they are all red…MORE

Highline Times freelance photographer Kurt Howard accompanied the Global Connections High School Wind Ensemble to the Presidential Inauguration Festival in Washington D.C.

We’ll have many more of his photos from the once-in-a-lifetime trip…MORE

Empty Bowls—Buy a beautiful bowl made by a Moshier Arts Center potter and enjoy a light meal with soup. Burien Community Center, 14700 6th Ave. S.W. 11 a.m.-2 p.m., 4-8 p.m. $15 minimum donation for adults, $10 minimum donation for children. All…MORE

Burien City Public Works staffers say city snow-removal crews are ready for the first flakes to fall in Burien.

The crew works 24 hours in continual 12-hours shifts during storms. They first will clear arterials, then secondary streets,…MORE

New mobile ordering and payment platform turns ordinary people in VIPs – simply walk into a coffee shop, grab your coffee, and walk out… like a rock star. Any barista with a cell phone can accept orders. No hardware required.Seattle, Wash. – Jan…MORE

Calley Maine, the daughter of Jan Maine who owns of the Corner Pocket at the Alaska Junction, died there suddenly Saturday night, Jan. 12 . She was 37. Calley was the mother of 14 year-old Cooper. Cooper was raised by Calley and her life-partner…MORE

SLIDESHOW, Click on photo for more, or click on photo in gallery below: Hundreds gathered for the annual Rustycon 30 Convention this weekend at the SeaTac Marriott to celebrate the steampunk scene. It continues until 6:00 p.m. Sunday night, Jan.…MORE

One hundred years ago at the trolley terminus near SW 152nd and 22nd Ave. SW, the flaps unzipped and Lake Burien Elementary School's "front doors" officially opened. Ten students filled the one-room school, a leaky tent. While they hit the books…MORE

John Urquhart was sworn in as King County Sheriff Nov. 28, 2012. The former sergeant defeated incumbent Sheriff Steve Strachan with over 56 percent of the vote. Urquhart served as deputy most of his career in the Burien precinct, and patrolled…MORE