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They weren't just the big kids on campus. They were the only high school seniors in town.
Everett High School's class of 1961 will gather Friday and Saturday for its 50-year reunion. Friends will look back on a different era.
Cascade High School had opened by 1961, but hadn't graduated its first class. Mariner High School wouldn't be built for nearly another decade. Jackson High didn't open until the 1990s.
Kim’s career includes being a varsity coach for volleyball and softball. As head softball coach for the Wildcats she has taken the team to the district playoffs. In the community Kim founded the Thunder Select Fastpitch Team. Kim is familiar with the duties of athletic directing as she was Interim Athletic Director in 2007.
A recently released economic profile reveals businesses in Carlsborg generated close to 2-billion dollars in goods and services in the past 5 years.
The Carlsborg U-G-A Economic Profile was presented by the Clallam Economic Development Council and the Carlsborg Business and Property Owners Association.
E-D-C Executive Director Linda Rotmark told KONP's media partner, the Sequim Gazette, that the profile is the document economic leaders were looking for.
Western Washington University completed its $51.5 million renovation of Miller Hall on Red Square in Bellingham. The building will open for fall quarter, which begins next week.
The state budget is in a deep hole.
Again.
Washington state is projected to collect around $1.4 billion less in tax revenue than expected between now and the end of June 2013, the state's chief economist, Arun Raha, said Thursday.
This comes on top of a down forecast in June that wiped out most of the state's reserves — not long after the governor had signed a two-year, $32 billion budget.
Gov. Chris Gregoire, in an interview, said she expects the Legislature will have to go into special session toward the end of the year to adjust the budget. She wants to wait until after the next forecast in November, in case things get worse.
Today’s bad revenue report showing a $1.4 billion drop in state revenues is almost sure to bring lawmakers back to town well before their scheduled 60-day session begins Jan. 10 next year.
The question is when to do it and when does the state’s roughly $163 million in reserves run out. Gov. Chris Gregoire says she can’t make across the board cuts, which state law requires when finances run into the red, so she’ll need to call in lawmakers to authorize cuts in other places – presumably before the Nov. 17 revenue forecast.
Southwest Washington's 3rd Congressional District, which has been controlled by Democrats for most of the last half century, likely would become more Republican under four plans to redraw the state's congressional districts presented in Olympia on Tuesday.
All four proposals would lop off most of Thurston County, a traditional Democratic stronghold, from the north end of the 3rd District. To be elected, candidates would need to woo more conservative voters in the southern part of the district, which currently includes Cowlitz, Lewis, Wahkiakum, Pacific and parts of Clark and Thurston counties.
The four proposals were unveiled by the four-member Washington State Redistricting Commission. The proposals could cause some big shakesups in state legislative districts in Southwest Washington.
The Bellevue Reporter sat down with Bellevue Education Association (BEA) president Michele Miller to discuss her goals, and concerns for the district, as well as the 97 percent "no confidence" vote in superintendent Amalia Cudeiro.
The population of Bellingham is about to increase - Western Washington University students return to campus this weekend.
The first day of classes is Wednesday, Sept. 21, but students can start moving into campus housing Friday, Sept. 16. Students will continue to arrive throughout the weekend.
Western Washington University was recently named to two national college ranking lists: the annual U.S. News & World Report's "Best Colleges" and G.I. Jobs' "Military Friendly Schools."
For the fourth year in a row, WWU was ranked by U.S. News as the third-best public, master's degree-granting university in the West, a region stretching from Texas to Alaska. WWU was the highest-ranked university on the list from the Pacific Northwest; The Evergreen State College was ranked fifth and Central Washington University was ranked 13th.