By Angie Vogt, political commentary
• Crushed rock and asphalt pavement will be placed between the View at Redondo Apartments, 29421 Pacific Highway S., and the Buddhist Learning Center, 28621 Pacific Highway South, the week of April 14, weather permitting. SCI Infrastructure will restore the driveway and parking lot at Western Union Checkmate, 28722 Pacific Highway S., at the same time.
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SPSL North standings (through Thursday) — Kentwood 6-1-0, Jefferson 4-1-2, Kentlake 4-2-2, Decatur 3-4-1, Tahoma 2-2-3, Kentridge 2-3-3, Federal Way 2-4-2, Kent-Merdian 0-6-2.
The Thomas Jefferson High School math team won first place in the overall sweepstakes at the Mu Alpha Theta State Math Contest. The following students were recognized at the event: Woosek Lee, Daniel Ahn, Barbara Jun, Patrick Clay, Douglas Chung, Jonathan Park, Keely Rasmussen, Kevin Suh, Brian Hunter, Esther Kim, Richard Baik, Victoria Lofdahl, Averi Kitsch, Josh Pahang, Jason Allmaras, Kevin Park, Stephanie Reagle, Brian Cheng, Bailey Warrior, Samantha Pham, Ari Schumer, Tyler Huxtable, Jonathan Wu, Jayson Gaspay, Viren Govindareju, Josh Lee, Justin Yi, Alexa Tavasci, Simon Cramer and Joe Lee.
The former astronaut finds herself on a different mission these days.
The following is a sample from the Federal Way police public information log:
Murder in the first degree charges were filed April 8 against Kent resident Joseph Njonge, 24, in the slaying of Federal Way resident Jane Carol Britt, 75.
A great American actor In case you missed the news, a great American actor passed away on April 5. He…
By Jerry Vaughn, Travel Talk
A Feb. 27, 2008, article in The Wall Street Journal (“School choice isn’t enough”) featured school reform.
By Bob Roegner, Inside Politics
By Tom Murphy, Superintendent of schools
By Jennifer Gray, Federal Way therapist