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Camilla Mejia is a senior at Jackson High School in Mill Creek. She is working to organize a support group for Hispanic students at her school. Mejia, 17 hopes to study communications and political science next year at Western Washington University. She hopes to advocate for human rights as a…

Four high school seniors and three junior college sophomores have signed national letters of intent to play men’s soccer at Western Washington University beginning this fall. Making that announcement was Vikings’ head coach Greg Brisbon.

Joining that group are…

Four high school seniors have signed National Letters of Intent to play volleyball at Western Washington University. They are outside hitter Eliana Ala’ilima-Daley from Cascade High School in Leavenworth, middle blocker Joslyn Bopray from Lewis & Clark High School in Spokane, outside…

Blaine High School senior Serena Sall spent her summer working on her senior project, and wound up raising funds to help over a dozen needy families.

Sall’s senior project required her to complete at least 20 hours of community service for the charity of her choice. She chose Water.org,…

Sequim resident Justin VanBuskirk, who graduated from Peninsula College this June, has some words of advice for others: “Don’t give up because of your position in life!”

He didn’t and now he is well on his way to finding the life and career he wants, which includes pursuing an engineering…

The Miller family of Camano Island has been tent camping for the past five days on the grounds of the Darrington Bluegrass Festival.
At some point each day, they got their instruments out and practiced together. Then they fanned out across the park to swim in the Stillaguamish…

The last thing Sebastian Greene, 18, remembers before he broadsided a huge truck on the morning of Oct. 8, 2012, was fiddling with the heater in his car.

“It was kind of cold and I was trying to get the heater right,” Greene said.

He was on his way to Mt. Spokane High School. “It…

Issaquah resident Alaina Blyth was honored last week at the Alliance of Eastside Agencies’ annual luncheon for exemplary service as a youth volunteer.
For more than three years, Blyth has been a volunteer at Teen Link, answering calls on the peer-to-peer youth helpline.

The road to college can be a difficult path for a low-income student, but that doesn’t discourage Leslie Viesca.

The soon-to-be-senior at Tacoma’s Foss High School has even picked out her top college choice: Gonzaga University in Spokane.

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A celebration of artists old and new was held at the Old Sculpin Gallery last Sunday. Teachers, parents and friends honored the three winners of the Martha’s Vineyard Art Association Student Scholarship given each year to graduating seniors: Zac Wannamaker, Willoe Maynard and David DaSilva. The…