The Seattle Department of Transportation might want to redesign the Junction's midblock crosswalks when it repaves California Avenue this summer, but city transportation officials don't plan to add parking pay stations or change the Junction's…MORE
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Considering school closures: Viewlands, North Beach hold their breath and wait
Tue, 03/28/06
The Seattle School District Community Advisory Committee began the complex task of recommending which K-8, alternative and elementary schools to close, consolidate or relocate at their first meeting Monday, March 20. Some members feared their May…MORE
Sylvan Way to be widened near homes
Tue, 03/28/06
Sylvan Way, one of West Seattle's most vital east-west arterial streets, remains closed while workers replace much of the street's road base after encountering unstable soils under the street when they tried to hook up a sewer line.
A few…MORE
Activists confront ugly truths
Tue, 03/28/06
Peace activists met at Ballard's Trinity United Methodist Church on Monday, March 20, to read aloud grim, often-contradictory descriptions of the war with Iraq. The meeting was one of 42 held in cities around the world to coincide with the third…MORE
School crime discussed
Tue, 03/28/06
The recent spate of teen-on-teen robberies was a major topic at last week's meeting of the West Seattle Community Safety Partnership at the Southwest Police Precinct.
A group of approximately 20 parents and community members expressed…MORE
School group eyes time limits
Tue, 03/28/06
The 15-member Community Advisory Committee began the complex task of recommending which K-8, alternative and elementary schools to close, consolidate or relocate at their first meeting last week.
Some members feared their May 26 deadline…MORE
Liberty may get new base, casting
Tue, 03/28/06
Alki's miniature Statue of Liberty - weather-worn, cracked and vandalized - might soon be recast and re-enshrined with commemorative pavers and a new plaza at Alki Beach.
Northwest Programs for the Arts, which stages the Seattle Music…MORE
Memorial Flagpole Installed for Adamson
Tue, 03/21/06
On June 7, 2005, Charlie H. Adamson Jr. died of cancer despite all the efforts, and medical expertise available. Virginia Mason Clinic provided loving care for him and his wife, Jane. Both Korea veterans, they married in Japan and had nearly 50…MORE
School bond approved on first try
Tue, 03/21/06
The Highline School District's $148 million bond has apparently passed on its first try.
With all votes cast at polls in the March 14 election and most of the absentee votes counted, 64.35 percent (11,311) of Highline voters approved the…MORE
Pioneer Highline newsman dies
Tue, 03/21/06
Highline’s first newspaperman has died.
Vance Orchard passed away March 7 in Walla Walla from cancer diagnosed just a week earlier. He was 88.
Mr. Orchard first started writing news stories for the Highline High School newspaper.…MORE