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Jack Bermingham, Ph.D., has been named interim president of Highline Community College.

The college board of trustees made the appointment retroactive to Nov. 16, when they dismissed then-president Priscilla Bell.

Bermingham had…MORE

The flu bug hit two Des Moines schools and a Burien school hard in recent weeks.

On Jan.

Absurd Person Singular ran for two years on Broadway and twice that on London's West End. It has been described as "one of the 5 great comedies of the last half of the twentieth century." And yet it gets remarkably few productions here in the…MORE

The flu bug has hit three Highline-area schools hard in recent weeks.

At St. Francis of Assisi School in Burien, 150 students out of a total enrollment of 465 missed school on Feb. 6.

Farther south, 90 out of 384 Des Moines…MORE

The Washington State Department of Transportation will "complete a major rehabilitation of the Interstate 5 bridge" between Spokane Street and the I-90 interchange this summer.

This construction will significantly affect traffic near…MORE

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SB 5058

Establishing the eastern Washington state veterans' cemetery.

By a vote of 48 to 0 on Feb. 2, 2007, the Senate voted to approve SB 5058, which would allow the…MORE

The state House Democratic caucus elected Rep. Joe McDermott (D-West Seattle) to join their Leadership team as Caucus Education Policy Leader.

"I am honored to receive this new leadership responsibility," McDermott said. "It gives me the…MORE

The North Highline Unincorporated Area Council took in a new member and dismissed another.

Christine Waldman was appointed to take the position at-large that had been held by Deputy Steve Cox, who was killed in the line of duty Dec. 2. Cox…MORE

After nearly three and a half hours of debate, the Seattle School Board formally adopted a set of 10 qualifications for a new superintendent last Wednesday, opening the door for a national search process.

Among other qualities, the next…MORE

The Jan. 31 story on the Global Reading Challenge should have stated it was a program of the King County Library System. The program is managed and staffed by The Seattle Public Library.