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It’s been a grim winter in much of the West for powder hounds.

But winter is too short to waste wishing for more snow. When it’s lacking in your back yard, you have to go find it.

Students and recent alumni mostly from Western Washington University took matters into their own hands…

Kerry Salazar, an elementary school teacher at Opal Charter School, has been recognized as a top educator in the new book, “American Teacher: Heroes in the Classroom.”

Salazar teaches first and second grade classes at Opal, a K-5 school housed in the Portland Children’s Museum. Opal is…

Dancer Angela Kiser is one of the performers in Kuntz & Company's production of "Positive," a dance-theater piece that explores the lives of seven local community members whose lives have been affected by HIV/AIDS.

The production will be at 7…

Former Western Washington University Director of Athletics Lynda Goodrich has been named the recipient of the 2014 Division 2 Athletics Directors Association (D2 ADA) Lifetime Achievement Award.

The award is the most prestigious presented by the D2 ADA, an organization administered by the…

To Andriy Semenyuk, Ukraine is home.
The Western Washington University alumnus has been among the thousands of people uniting in the main square of Kiev, known as the Maidan, at all hours in the sub-zero temperatures of the Ukrainian winter.
Semenyuk graduated from Western in 2008…

Puns are something that long-time science teacher Dale Croswell is famous for among his colleagues and students.Therefore, it was only fitting that when “Cros,” as he is known, sent staff members at Camas High School an e-mail announcing his pending retirement, he ended it with a pun.


Though he retired as Genesee Community College’s dean of Learning Technologies in June 2013, Robert (Bob) G. Knipe’s legacy in the distance learning community lives on.

Knipe will be recognized with a Lifetime Achievement Award when the…