It’s a small detail in a school with 400 students and 23 classrooms. But it’s these small details, like the shelf and the bright walls, that added up to a recent first place award for public architecture from the regional chapter of the International Association of Interior Designers.
Federal Way’s Star Lake Elementary School has earned a 2010 “Schools of Distinction” award from a Washington educational consulting firm, which recognizes ongoing improvements at the school based on state testing scores.
It was about 20 years ago that, after being gently pestered by his minister, Joe Jackson began publicly telling the story of how he was awarded the Medal of Honor.
For all the Veterans Day memorial services around King County and in Federal Way this week, there’s one program exclusive to the area that helps veterans all year.
In a year-to-year comparison between 2009 and 2010, the Federal Way School District shows a negligible change in a “head count” of the number of students.
here are better safeguards now when an HIV exposure occurs. Post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP) is a course of drugs that can be taken directly after exposure and can reduce the chances of HIV infection.
Students and staff returned to a regular school day around 9 a.m. Thursday after a bomb threat was received earlier in the morning by Kilo administrators
Last January, Dylan Brown, a fifth-grader at Brooklake Christian School, undertook a traffic study for a school project of the intersection of Southwest 320th Street and Hoyt Road/47th Avenue Southwest to see how many motorists would come to a complete stop at the sign.
It has been four years since South King Fire and Rescue veteran Doug Waller died as a result of contracting HIV on the job, but his death is just now being recognized as having occurred in the line of duty.
Did you know that the Federal Way Public Schools recently refunded some of its bonds?
The Federal Way School Board passed a measure that bumps up Superintendent Robert Neu’s yearly salary by $6,000 to a total $195,000.
The observance will take place 1 p.m. Nov. 13 at Todd Beamer High School. Organizers are asking anyone planning to attend to bring a relative or friend who has served in the military.
The National Weather Service is predicting a cold, wet winter ahead for the Pacific Northwest caused by La Nina, a cooling of the Pacific Ocean near the equator, which affects weather patterns across the U.S.
