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The following letter has been distributed to community organizations throughout Seattle:

METRO TRANSIT SERVICE – FACING A CRISIS

As you know, Mayor Greg Nickels is committed to ensuring that our residents have great transportation…MORE

The planned replacement development for the Greenwood Fred Meyer was sent back to the drawing board after the Northwest Design Review Board didn't see enough options at the July 13 early design guidance meeting.

The board is requiring that…MORE

The King County Council has cut positions in its own staff and those in its executive-branch agencies and froze hiring for non-essential county services to help preserve most of the critical human services “lifeboat” programs in the 2009 King…MORE

Seattle Firefighters from Engine 29 will be at Alki Beach on Friday awarding children who are properly wearing helmets while bicycling, skateboarding and inline skating.

This summer, the Seattle Fire Department is once again teaming up…MORE

As she prepares to leave Madison Middle School, former principal Dr. Jill Hudson spoke to the West Seattle Herald about the eight years she spent there and what she’ll miss the most.

“There’s such energy and enthusiasm in a middle school…MORE

Protesters gathered outside the Woodland Park Zoo’s largest fundraiser of the year July 10 to lobby for the release of the zoo’s three elephants.

Members of Sound Animal Rights Alliance and Friends of Woodland Park Zoo Elephants, as well…MORE

The Seattle City Council was presented with and approved legislation this afternoon proposing that the West Seattle Bridge receive a secondary name after former city council member Jeanette Williams.

Williams served on Seattle's City…MORE

Mayor Greg Nickels has announced a partnership with the U.S. Census Bureau and the Seattle 2010 Complete Count Committee headed by former Mayor Norm Rice, former Seattle City Council member Martha Choe, and Rogelio Riojas, president of SeaMar…MORE

The White Center Community Development Association will be hosting a Luau in the Park on August 29 to benefit their organization.

Community members are invited to an evening of island style merriment with a real pig in the “imu” (pit).…MORE

To address an unusually high number of students requesting to attend both Schmitz Park and Lafayette elementary, the schools will be adding additional classes this fall.

Schmitz Park will add a third kindergarten class and Lafayette will…MORE