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The Times/News presents a weekly summary of actions on bills by Highline-area legislators.

For complete information, go to www.WashingtonVotes.org-a free, non-partisan Website with plain-English explanations of bills and a record of each…MORE

Burien council members honored on April 16 retiring city resource manager and clerk Jan Roegner, who has served as since incorporation in 1993.

Roegner has trained many of the current staff, negotiating the contract that allowed council…MORE

The Sea-Tac Occupational Skills Center started in the 1960s as the state's first multi-district high school vocational program.

But Highline district officials think the center's name has become as dated as such '60s expressions as "groovy…MORE

King County Housing Authority officials made an eleventh-hour bid last week to keep most of the Lora Lake Apartments open.

The 200-plus apartments at Des Moines Memorial Drive just south of State Route 518 are scheduled to be vacated in…MORE

Do you think you have to write the Great American Novel the first time you set your pen to paper in order to be a writer? That's not how it happens.

Find out more about the writing world at the first-ever Federal Way Writer's Retreat at…MORE

Federal Way batter Shane Elliot connects with a sixth-inning fastball that he redirects over the left field wall. The homerun put the Eagles on top, 4-3. Federal Way defeated Kentwood by the same margin last Tuesday.

Photo by Seth Bynum…MORE

In the April 18, 2007 issue of the West Seattle Herald, in the article "Teen mysteries probed in high school workshop," Sue Quigley was incorrectly identified for her role at West Seattle High School. She is a guidance counselor.

Thanks to the hard work of the auction committee, the generosity of donors and the generosity of attendees, the West Seattle Parent, Teacher, Student Association announced net auction earnings of $32,000, a 30 percent increase in earnings over…MORE

South Seattle Community College is pleased to announce that two of its faculty members have been awarded tenure.

Tenure is a form of academic job assurance in recognition of the quality of an instructor's teaching, commitment to students…MORE

The demise of a bill that would protect the Maury Island Aquatic Reserve from an industrial barge-loading operation got the state's much-promoted Puget Sound cleanup effort off to a dismal start, says King County Councilmember Dow Constantine.…MORE