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| 1 | Master Builders Association celebrates centennial anniversary with 100 community service projects | Real Estate |
| Members of the Master Builders Association of King and Snohomish Counties set out to celebrate the group's centennial anniversary with a towering challenge: Tackling 100 community-service projects in a year. "You know, when I first heard about that as an idea, my reaction was 'Wow, can we do that? | ||
| 1/29/2010 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 2 | A holiday surprise, homes can sell; here is how to do it | Real Estate |
| One of the main reasons: Sellers would rather take their home off the market than weather the seasonal slowdown and run up the number of days the home stays on the market. | ||
| 11/21/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 3 | Q&A: How veterans can take advantage of VA loan program to buy a home | Real Estate |
| All of the conditions seemed ideal: Home values and mortgage-interest rates had plummeted, there was a wide selection of properties in his price range on the market and the pot was sweetened with the $8,000 first-time homebuyer federal tax credit. | ||
| 11/14/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 4 | Concern rising as flood season nears in Green River Valley | Real Estate |
| Memories of last January's flooding, structural concerns with the leaky Howard Hanson Dam and last month's news that business owners in the low-lying areas of Kent, Auburn, Tukwila and other communities would not be able to get adequate levels of flood insurance have many residents worried. | ||
| 10/10/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 5 | Short sales: What to expect | Real Estate |
| "It's certainly bringing buyers back into the marketplace," said Ron Sparks, managing vice president with Coldwell Banker Bain in Bellevue. "Houses are not so much for sale right now as they are on sale." Here's what potential buyers and sellers need to know about short sales. | ||
| 6/7/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 6 | More Seattle neighborhoods considered affordable | Real Estate |
| Demi Troncoso commuted to Seattle from a Tacoma rental for nearly three years before buying a home in Auburn's Lakeland Hills subdivision last October. "I was waiting until the bubble burst," said Troncoso, a safety consultant for the state Department of Labor and Industries. | ||
| 5/30/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 7 | In down market, even staging on a shoestring helps sell | Real Estate |
| On Day 91, real-estate agent Stan Isenhath enlisted the help of a professional home stager, who brought in new furnishings and accessories to give the property more pizazz. On Day 92, the seller received an offer for the full asking price. | ||
| 2/28/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 8 | Slow housing market means more hours, more expenses for agents | Real Estate |
| Faced with a staggering slowdown in the regional — and national — housing markets, local real-estate professionals are working harder to clinch deals. | ||
| 11/22/2008 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 9 | Renton respite: Put your oar in the water where the Cedar River meets Lake Washington | Travel and Recreation |
| ON LAKE WASHINGTON — We covered our ears when the Boeing 737's piercing shrill escalated into a thunderous roar as it took off from Renton Municipal Airport. | ||
| 8/8/2001 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 10 | Crime prevention a design priority in school construction | Local News |
| Forty years ago, new schools were built with lots of concrete and practically no windows — strong enough to be bomb shelters in case of a nuclear attack. | ||
| 8/4/2001 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 11 | Schools use I-728 funds to reduce class size | Local News |
| All over the Puget Sound, from Marysville to Seattle to Federal Way, more teachers will be on hand to greet students when they return in September, thanks to a voter-approved initiative aimed at reducing class size. | ||
| 7/29/2001 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 12 | Kissing teacher won't be tagged sex offender | Local News |
| PUYALLUP — A former Puyallup High School teacher accused of kissing a 16-year-old male student in her classroom has agreed to a deal that won't require her to register as a sex offender. | ||
| 7/24/2001 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 13 | Young students get jump on basics: Summer-school program readies kindergartners for first grade | Local News |
| Jeffery has a hard time playing with others. On a recent day, he threw a tantrum when he couldn't play the pig who built his house out of bricks in a puppet show. | ||
| 7/22/2001 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 14 | Accident fueled by alcohol ends lives of six young people | Local News |
| Her 28-year-old daughter, Teresa Hedlund, and the daughter's 22-year-old fiancé, Timothy Stewart, lived there, too, and were playing host. Bice put her foot down, police and family friends say. She'd told them before not to party there. | ||
| 7/17/2001 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 15 | 6 dead, 1 hurt in crash near Auburn mall | Local News |
| In what is believed to be the worst single-car accident in Puget Sound history, six young people were killed and a 28-year-old woman was critically injured when their small car slammed into an overpass support pillar last night in Auburn. | ||
| 7/16/2001 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 16 | Construction worker killed on his first day | Local News |
| AUBURN - A 52-year-old construction worker was killed yesterday when he was thrown from an asphalt-paving machine, which overturned several times and rolled over on him in the Lakeland Hills housing development. It was Thomas G. Zichek's first day on the job, authorities said. | ||
| 7/5/2001 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 17 | Teacher linked to teen boy resigns | Local News |
| PUYALLUP - For weeks, they exchanged instant messages and e-mails, went on a couple of pseudo-dates and met in her classroom before school and during lunch, police said. | ||
| 6/27/2001 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 18 | Kent schools have a new go at religion rules | Local News |
| Students would be permitted to say nondisruptive prayers in the classroom, and Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny could be part of holiday displays in school hallways, under proposed policy changes that will be presented tonight to the Kent School Board. | ||
| 6/26/2001 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 19 | Federal Way principal fired; computer misuse alleged | Education |
| A popular junior-high principal in the Federal Way School District has been fired after allegedly viewing "inappropriate material" on district-owned computers. School officials terminated a contract with Marc Rieke, principal of Lakota Junior High, on Friday. | ||
| 6/25/2001 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 20 | Huge day for Muckleshoot school: its first two grads | Local News |
| MUCKLESHOOT RESERVATION - Months of hard work will pay off tonight for siblings Matt and Ginger Allen, the first students to graduate from the Muckleshoot Tribal School near Auburn. Brother and sister are blazing a trail that is often long and arduous for Native-American students. | ||
| 6/18/2001 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||