John Lowe is a man on a mission--His 14th, to be exact.
On April 10, 1945, Lowe was on that 14th mission as a 19-year-old waist gunner aboard a Boeing B-17 "Flying Fortress" over Brandenburg, Germany.
Suddenly, bullets from a…MORE
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Tue, 05/27/08
John Lowe is a man on a mission--His 14th, to be exact.
On April 10, 1945, Lowe was on that 14th mission as a 19-year-old waist gunner aboard a Boeing B-17 "Flying Fortress" over Brandenburg, Germany.
Suddenly, bullets from a…MORE
Tue, 05/27/08
"A lot of things have happened to me in 50 years," SeaTac resident Garry Treadwell acknowledges with a serious tone.
Three years after graduating from West Seattle High School in 1958, he was a passenger in a car wreck that almost took his…MORE
Tue, 05/27/08
The city of SeaTac is going green.
SeaTac lawmakers have voted to join ICLEI-Local Governments for Sustainability, a group with a membership of 800 cities worldwide, including 400 in the United States.
The group was established in…MORE
Tue, 05/27/08
The city says meat and dairy products will be allowed in the yard waste cart, glass will go in the same recycling container as paper and plastic, and more plastic materials will be eligible for recycling, thanks to new solid waste contracts that…MORE
Tue, 05/27/08
King County Prosecutor Dan Satterberg is one of several Highline High School graduates, who will return to their alma mater on June 7, to participate in the third annual Relay For Life of Highline. The 18-hour event at Highline Memorial Stadium…MORE
Tue, 05/27/08
Seattle students should have schools that prepare them for college, for work and for life, not force them to look for another school system to find quality education, said Superintendent Maria L. Goodloe-Johnson last week.
Community…MORE
Tue, 05/27/08
As expected, Burien council members voted May 19 to call for the annexation by election of the southern portion of North Highline.
The vote was 6 to 1 with Councilwoman Lucy Krakowiak opposing annexation.
However, city manager Mike…MORE
Tue, 05/27/08
The Seattle Police Officers' Guild overwhelmingly approved a new city contract that increased wages by 25.6 percent over the life of the four-year contract.
With more than 90 percent of 1,119 ballots returned, 89 percent favored the…MORE
Wed, 05/21/08
"My cousin Edith speaks English and Hebrew but counts only in Norwegian," said Dr. Eugene Normand.
Normand spoke at the Nordic Heritage Museum May 15. His talk was about Jewish refugees brought to Norway following World War II. Edith, her…MORE
Tue, 05/20/08
An American Automotive Association study shows the cost of driving a passenger vehicle in the United States has increased 1.9 cents per mile in the last year and now averages 54.1 cents per mile.
"While the cost of some driving expenses…MORE