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White Center's eight-decade run of summer festivals will be broken this year due to volunteer burnout.

A group of five stalwarts, who've been instrumental in keeping July Jubilee Days going for the past 20 years, reluctantly voted to…MORE

Paul Ishii, of Federal Way, was elected to a second term as Secretary of 4Culture's Board.

As General Manager of the Mayflower Park Hotel, Mr.

Four Seattle Board of Parks Commissioners resigned last month after the Seattle City Council passed an ordinance that gives the council the authority to appoint half of the seven-member advisory board and creates one new position.

The…MORE

Seattle City Council members urged Seattle School Board members to ensure surplus school buildings are used as community assets rather than sold to the highest bidder at a joint city-schools meeting last week.

The district is currently…MORE

One might call outgoing Assistant City Manager Derek Matheson the strong, silent type.

Silent in the sense that the 31-year-old stays out of the limelight, quietly but assuredly helping operate the controls of Washington's seventh largest…MORE

Pro Parks Levy dollars won't run out until the end of 2008 but the Seattle Parks and Recreation Department is planning now for how to absorb programs, staffing and maintenance now funded through the levy since city officials have made it clear it…MORE

When the power went out for five days in mid-December, some Fauntleroy residents were in the midst of fighting an onslaught of mud that had left their basements waist deep in soil, sand and gravel.

Hard hit were Jack Lawless and Jennifer…MORE

The Federal Way School Board announced last Tuesday at its twice-monthly meeting that district teachers can resume showing "An Inconvenient Truth," a film of slideshow findings on the topic of climate change and global warming.

The…MORE

In a Senior Night slam, Decatur 12th grader Devon Jones puts his Federal Way High School opponent, Darren Faber, into a move you'll likely see used more in the WWF than on the high school wrestling mat. Faber fought back, however, scoring six…MORE

The new executive director of the local non-profit WestSide Baby, Nancy Woodland, has found her calling.

Once a lawyer for the state attorney general, then a stay-at-home mother to her young son and daughter, the self-proclaimed "busy-body…MORE