Earlier mornings are in store for most Seattle elementary-schoolers starting next year, while teenagers can enjoy a few more minutes in bed, after the Seattle School Board approved sweeping bell-time changes last week.

The Interbay Eagles Junior youth football team from Magnolia and Queen Anne capped off their 2015 season by defeating the Edmonds Warriors 40-8 at the NJFL Championship game.

The halls of Lawton Elementary School were transformed on Friday, Nov. 13, with the fall STEAM Student and Family Cardboard Challenge, inspired by the “Caine’s Arcade” documentary.

Because of the efforts of Forefront: Innovations in Suicide Prevention, a nonprofit based at the University of Washington, Washington state is the first in the country to require suicide prevention training for doctors, nurses, teachers and mental health professionals. 

A new program called Native Girls Code is a game development project that bridges Native culture with Western science, resulting in young Native girls inspired to create websites, online games and virtual worlds. Their work will be on display on Saturday, Nov. 21.

The effort to bring back the ousted longtime principal at Queen Anne Elementary has ended, after a vote by the Seattle School Board last week further cemented his departure from the school.

With nearly 700 fewer students than expected in Seattle Public Schools this year, the district has made staffing adjustments that it says are necessary but have parents and community members frustrated. 

The yellow, orange and red palette on the streets and the rustle of fallen leaves that tingle our ears indicate that fall is in full swing. And as October is approaching its final mark, everybody is in anticipation of yet another transformation to take over: Halloween.

With a guaranteed three, and potentially four, new faces on the Seattle School Board this fall, the composition of the seven-seat council is sure to have a different look come November.

The Magnolia Rotary Club of Seattle and Seattle Pacific University have presented scholarships to deserving students for the last two years.