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Highline School Board members were told on Oct. 10 that the district should serve better food to its students.

High school student Ifrah Ahmed encouraged the district to offer more food choices, especially vegetarian and ethnic.

She…MORE

When voters approved the "Bridging the Gap" program to improve transportation in Seattle, a special fund was set up with $4.5 million for neighborhood transportation projects.

A half dozen types of transportation projects are eligible.

Times/News publisher Jerry Robinson has been awarded a first place for humor writing in the annual Washington Newspaper Publishers Association Better Newspaper Contest.

Robinson, 87, writes a regular column that appears in the Times/News…MORE

Bob Bohlin, a member of the Class of 1967 who lives in LaConner, Wash., attended last weekend's celebration of Chief Sealth High Schools 50th anniversary. Photo by Steve Shay.

Burien police still have no leads on who stole four memorial plaques Sept. 19 from the World War I memorial on Des Moines Memorial Drive. The memorial is located near South 156th Street.

Dick Dahlgard, vice-president of the Highline…MORE

Sanislo Elementary School fifth-grader Aislyn Crane is a crossing guard at 21st Avenue and Southwest Myrtle Street. Photo by Steve Shay.

After a two-week delay, SeaTac City Council members on Oct. 9 approved partnering with Tukwila on a study of joint fire operations.

Each city will pay $30,000 to Emergency Services Consulting Inc.

The board of the King County Ferry District has adopted by-laws to guide its operations as it reviews and develops plans for potential operation of local waterborne transit.

The by-laws call for representation on the board's executive…MORE

U.S. Sen. Patty Murray and Gov. Chris Gregoire marked on Oct. 10 the beginning of traffic improvements on state routes 518 and 509 at the Tukwila light rail station, which is still under construction.

They also paid tribute to Sound…MORE

West Seattle School Board candidates Maria Ramirez and Steve Sundquist offered their differing, but sometimes shared, opinions on public education policy in Seattle schools at an all-city candidate forum last Thursday evening.

Seven of the…MORE