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Highline Public Schools students in grades 3 through 8 made significant gains on the state math exam, Measurements of Student Progress (MSP), Highline administrators have reported.

Highline's gains on the 2011 exam were greater than the…MORE

Menchie's frozen yogurt is coming to the Admiral Junction in late October in a new retail space on California Avenue as part of the new Safeway complex, and promises to be a unique and customizable experience for those seeking a frozen treat. Mix…MORE

Beginning Nov. 1, Des Moines residents and businesses will see bright green trucks collecting their garbage, recycling, and food/yard waste as CleanScapes, a Seattle-based solid waste and recycling company, assumes solid waste/recycling hauling…MORE

Two major events for the Highline Music4Life program are being held in Des Moines in September. The Poverty Bay "Blues & Brews" event will be on Saturday, Sept. 10th at the Des Moines Beach Park beginning at noon and will feature several…MORE

Today is the first day of the new academic school year for 47,000-plus Seattle students and 2,753 teachers in 94 schools.

Seattle Public School celebrates this new year with a districtwide focus on raising expectations – through strong…MORE

Press release:

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Press release Group Health members can now email their doctors while on the bus, make an appointment with a doctor while waiting in line for a latte, and even check on the wait time at the closest Group Health Lab and Pharmacy. With the new…MORE

Senior residents of Park West Care Center hosted a day-after-Labor-Day party Tuesday for babies from All About Kids, a nearby daycare center, both on North Admiral. Although their ages differed vastly, they found common ground, as is apparent…MORE

UPDATE, SEPT. 11

A questionable article is circulating in many major Seattle media outlets, and beyond, picked up by European sources with the headline "Amanda Knox hopes to be home for Thanksgiving". The article claims Knox spoke to an…MORE

Little West Seattleites and their parents showed up en masse for the official unveiling of the Admiral District’s Lafayette Elementary playground on Sept. 6 – just in time for school to start the next day.

As soon as construction tape…MORE