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Skateboarders in Seattle have reason to celebrate, despite a recent setback at the proposed Lower Woodland skate park. Last Tuesday, February 21, the Seattle City Council unanimously approved a resolution creating a task force charged with…MORE

Two South Seattle Community College students on Thursday will be named to the All-Washington Academic Team in an awards ceremony in Olympia.

Khoa Ho and Kathie Pham will be recognized as top community and technical college students for…MORE

The Des Moines City Council voted unanimously Feb.

Patricia McLean, Alki Elementary School principal, has warned parents that during the week of Feb. 13 a girl about 10 years old was selling $5 coupons for a Feb. 18 car wash, claiming that it was to support "Youth Girls Basketball" at Alki…MORE

Many “Band-Aids” have been applied to shore up Camp Waskowitz, the Highline Public Schools’ outdoor environmental education facility, since it was built in 1935.

“But now it’s time for major surgery” on the old camp structures, according…MORE

Seattle City Council member David J. Della introduced legislation that calls for the Parks Department in conjunction with a new skateboard park advisory task force to develop a comprehensive skateboard park plan for Seattle. Della worked with…MORE

Ninth and tenth grade students at North Highline's Evergreen High School are beginning to get a more personalized education by joining the school’s “small learning communities.”

The learning communities are designed to curb low graduation…MORE

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Alternatives to the WASL

By a vote of 33 to 10 on Feb. 10, the Senate approved SB 6475. The bill would establish three alternative ways of assessing student performance and aptitude.

In the late 1950s and early 1960s, high school kids flocked to the northwest corner of Pacific Highway South and Kent-Des Moines Road to dance at the Spanish Castle.

Soon, lease payments from a new Walgreen Drug Store at the site will help…MORE

With the proposed Fauntleroy Place project planned for one of West Seattle's most prominent intersections, a member of the West Seattle Design Review Board wondered how come architects didn't design an attention-getting architectural feature that…MORE