Boys swimming
All-City meet
Rather than having a Decatur-Beamer and a Thomas Jefferson-Federal Way meet, the four teams decided to all get together for All-City action last Tuesday, Jan. 13.
Todd Beamer outscored its three Federal Way School District neighbors with 80 points and Decatur took second with 43.
August of last year, the City made some changes to the traffic lights around town, among those changes included installing flashing yellow left turn signals in a couple of locations and Red Light Cameras at two other spots.
The buzz around town is not entirely positive.
The thinking behind the new yellow flashers is that they will allow traffic to flow while preventing collisions, but one person I overheard complained that the light at 312th and Hwy 99 is confusing.
Just when we started getting used to those crazy traffic roundabouts by Weyerhaeuser, the traffi
On January 7, Superintendent Tom Murphy gave his "State of the Schools" speech to the Federal Way Chamber of Commerce.
After the meeting I was asked by some of the readers to comment on his speech.
On Saturday night, Jan. 10 a "Perigee Moon," the biggest full moon of 2009 was high in the sky, and it helped create the evening's very low "spring tide" at Burien's Seahurst Park beach.
The shoreline was peppered with the blinking lights of naturalists leading children and other marine enthusiasts to the freshly revealed biological treasures.
The weather was a misty but stable rain as tide ebbed to its lowest point and back again, so Dr. Barbara Williams of Burien's Environmental Science Center considered this "4th annual Moonlight Beach Walk" a successful.
While the economic downturn is bad for business, it's good for art at the Burien Town Square site.
Burien artists plan over the next year to turn the site into a "community arts pea patch."
The first harvest from the patch will be five large sculptures to be temporarily installed Jan.
Tempers flared and voices were raised as Des Moines council members and residents wrestled with the idea of adopting the Multifamily Property Tax Exemption Program for some areas of the city.
The exemption does not apply to the land or non-housing improvements.
The residential target area is the Pacific-Ridge area on Pacific Highway South.
It turned out to be a hot topic at the Jan 15, city council meeting.
"It lacks adequate safeguard and doesn't support social policy," said resident Mark Proulx."
Proulx added that he is philosophically d
With economic conditions slowing building projects, SeaTac lawmakers indicated Jan. 13 they are "in the driver's seat" in controlling construction costs.
In that spirit, council members postponed for at least six months design work on a new fire station. They also sent back to committee an ordinance amendment that would have increased design costs for a spray park.
Deputy Mayor Gene Fisher said he objected to the proposed contract with TCA Architects whereby the firm would estimate what was needed for rebuilding the Angle Lake fire station at 2929 S.
The Highline School Board recognized last week 16 district teachers who have received their national board certification.
Superintendent John Welch noted that is four times the number that earned certification last year.
Eight of the educators are elementary school teachers while two teach in middle schools and six are high school instructors.
Highline now has 37 nationally certified teachers, Welch reported.
The educators earn certification through creation of a professional portfolio and a peer assessment of their teaching practice.
They
Most theatrical performances come with a high degree of predictability-the boy gets the girl, the bad guy gets what coming--the sun does come out tomorrow.
But the Highline High School production of "Clue, The Musical" only has one predicable premise-someone is dead. And that someone is Mr. Boddy, owner of the Boddy Mansion and the scene of the crime.
After that, any one of 216 possible outcomes can happen.
Breeders Theater of Burien takes a nostalgic turn this month with its latest production, "Prairie Heart."
Playwright T.M. Sell's latest work is a touch of Americana, relating the hardships and passions of immigrant settlers in rural North Dakota.
Told through the eyes of Ingrid, a newcomer to the harsh frontier, Sell puts a face on the strength and fortitude of the previous generations who built this country.
It's 1893, and Ingrid Thorgrimsdottir arrives at the train station near Minot, North Dakota to serve as the nanny for a local family.
