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Two West Seattle area students recently graduated from the Savannah College of Art and Design in Savannah, Ga.

They are Joel Richard Jonientz, who received a master of fine arts degree in painting and Rheina Francisco Cayetano who…MORE

Imagination Toys owner David Swanson said his business has faced stiff competition from the Targets and the Wal-marts, but it was a 40 percent hike in the rent that finally forced him to close his business after 10 years in Ballard.

It was…MORE

The Federal Way city council announced they have selected Neal Beets as the new city manager, to start work on August 1st.

Until July 21, Beets is the city manager of Roseville, Minnesota. A city of nearly 34,000, it borders the…MORE

In August, Bonnie Stenberg will remove her business license from where it has hung for 45 years.

The framed document, now faded and streaked with brown tinges, was issued to Stenberg in 1961.

The owner/operator of Bonnie's Dash…MORE

Some of the spending reductions under consideration to balance the Highline School District's 2006-2007 budget include eliminating school resource officers, closing the teen parent program and reducing the school building budget.

The…MORE

The proposal to move the Pathfinder K-8 alternative program to the Boren building has been taken off the latest list of Seattle Public Schools closure recommendations.

Superintendent Raj Manhas announced his final recommendations last…MORE

Take a walk on the wild side when fire dancers, acrobats and entertainers of every stripe transform Olde Burien into a one-of-a-kind summer block party on Saturday, July 15.

From noon to midnight, the Southwest 152nd Street Block Party…MORE

The administration building at Carkeek Park was vandalized on the weekend of July 2nd, causing an estimated three to five thousand dollars of damage.

Vandals broke three sections of fencing and pulled out a support post that was anchored…MORE

Eighty-two new rental apartments built along Eighth Avenue Southwest just south of Roxbury Street will open Aug. 1 in town houses painted green, apricot, purple, yellow, periwinkle blue and other colors.

The Alki Community Council says Alki restaurants that turn into bars at night should have to address negative impacts they impose on the neighborhood and Seattle officials have stepped in to try to get one neighborhood restaurant to quiet down.…MORE