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Rev. Marilyn Cornwell of Magnolia's Church of the Ascension leads opening prayer at the Washington State Senate

Reverend Canon Marilyn M. Cornwell from the Episcopalian Church of the Ascension in the Magnolia neighborhood of Seattle was the guest of Sen. Jeanne Kohl-Welles, D-Seattle, on the Senate Floor on Friday.

Texas bound

Falcons conquer Billings 2-0, next up San Diego for NCAA Division II Tournament

For the first half, it was anybody's game.

City Champs

The Tigers of Catharine Blaine K-8 took the City Championship Monday night, toppling Whitman Middle School 2-1. Back row: (from left) assistant coaches Mark Van Mulken, Sam Godon, Players: Maddy Hanson, Elaine Frank, Grace Clipson, Jackie Tse, Katie Stutz, Hunter Kulik, Molly Hubbard, Bailey Travis, Eva Gianutsos, head coach Randy Self, Front row: Sammy Hutchinson, Miranda Hardy, Riley Mainar, Georgia Gray, Megan Aust and Maeve Anesini. Laying down: Wendy Donier, and Piper Phillips. Players not present: Izzy Swanson, Caroline Slick, and Francesca Martorano.

Falcons' gymnasts shine

Kulkarni delivers career-best effort

Aditi Kulkarni delivered a career-best performance on the floor exercise Saturday night, and the Seattle Pacific gymnastics team posted a fourth-place finish in a meet at the University of Washington.

We could each be King

Seattle Soundings

The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. would have been 82 this year. He has been dead for longer than he was alive.

Thrilling finish to soccer season

Fatima/St. Anne reaches semifinals

In a thrilling finale to its 7-1 regular season, the eighth-grade boys soccer team from Our Lady of Fatima/ St. Anne School Falcons battled Holy Rosary of West Seattle last week to determine who would go on to the Archdiocese championships of Seattle.

Metro committee set to tackle transit budget shortfall

King County Metro faces a cumulative deficit of more than $1 billion over the next five years, which means nearly 20 percent of all bus service could be eliminated, according to a recent audit.

Public to help decide fate of community centers

Upcoming public meetings will focus on programming, operations

For several local community centers, January signaled the start of a new year and a new way of operating.

Diversions 1/26

THEATRE NewsWrights United will be delivering the next edition of their Living Newspaper to neighborhoods throughout Seattle this spring with The New New News: A Living Newspaper, opening Feb. 18 at Olympic Theatre at South Seattle Community College (SSCC). The New New News: A Living Newspaper will remain at Olympic Theatre through Feb. 20, before moving to Erickson Theatre on Capitol Hill Feb. 24-27 and finally to Stage One Theatre at North Seattle Community College (NSCC) March 2-13. Visit www.newswrightsunited.org for more information.

Celebrating her 90th and still working a 60-hour week

Elizabeth Adams doesn't understand why people look amazed to learn she is turning 90 on Dec. 5. But even more amazing is that she still gets up every morning at 6 a.m., Monday through Friday to work an 11-hour day as a licensed assistant in her daughter's home daycare for children under the age of four. She has been doing so for 17 years.

The gothic 'K of D'

Friedman tackles 16 characters in one-woman show

It is always a pleasure to watch a gifted actor strut her stuff.  The Seattle Repertory Theater’s one-woman show “The K of D, an Urban Legend” provides audiences with just such an opportunity.

'Faster' is a disaster

"Faster." That has to be one of the lamest movie titles since "The Bounty Hunter."

Big Insects, Small World

Musings from the Laundromat

“Honey? There’s a scorpion under the sink…” “OK, be right there!”   My husband came calmly down the stairs to size up the situation. “Huh,” was his assessment. “OK. Where’s the broom?”   I handed it over like a surgical nurse would hand a scalpel to a surgeon. Quietly, efficiently, mechanically. He turned the broom upside down, took aim and smashed the little guy with the butt end of the handle. “Thanks, Dan.”  And we went back to whatever we were doing.  

Interbay business owner shows true grit during financial crisis

Dan Price of Gravity Payments gets award from President Obama

Dan Price was only 12 years old when he began the accidental training he would eventually need to launch one of the region’s most surprisingly successful companies right here in Interbay.

Magnolian says no to tunnel

But City Council tired of 'twiddling thumbs'

Last June, members of the Seattle City Council gathered at the groundbreaking event of the Alaskan Way Viaduct replacement project. The first segment to face demolition runs from South Holgate to South King streets.