[ October 23, 2008; 7:00 pm; October 25, 2008; 11:00 am; 8:00 pm; ] Photos and Story by Janet Grella

You may have noticed that many Burien businesses are lending their storefront windows to students of Highline High School to promote this years’ Homecoming game, parade and dance.

The B-Town Blog caught up with HHS students Kady and Aljiggs late this afternoon as they painted some windows in Olde Burien:

This years’ [...]

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[ October 25, 2008; 5:30 pm; ]

Reba Gilman, Principal and CEO of Highline School District’s Aviation High School, will receive the Museum of Flight’s 2008 Pathfinder Award recognizing pioneering achievements in flying, engineering, education, operations, and manufacturing.

The award will be presented at the Museum’s William M. Allen Theater this Saturday, Oct. 25th. The evening’s program will start off with a [...]

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by Josh Hart
On Friday, Oct. 17th, during a high school football game between Renton High School’s Indians and the Tyee Totems, a brawl broke out at Neudorf Memorial Field in Tukwila.
Renton came into the game at 3-3 while Tyee came in winless.
After the game they both walked out with a postponed game.
Five minutes before the [...]

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Just got word from our friends at the Highline School District that the University of Washington Husky band will play at a pep rally Wed. night Oct. 22nd at 7pm to encourage middle school students to go to college.
As part of Highline’s Life After High School Fair (more info here), the Husky pep band will [...]

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by Josh Hart
Many of you don’t know about this new school in the area and that is Highline’s Big Picture High School.
I would like to inform you about this school for two reasons:
The first being that everyone should know about all the schools in the area and the other being that I am sick and [...]

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According to The Seattle Times (we were unable to attend the game due to familial obligations), the Kennedy (football) Lancers pulled off a great comeback to beat Renton’s Lindbergh High Eagles last night, 49-21.
This was Kennedy’s 22nd consecutive win over Lindbergh, and it puts the Lancers (6-1 overall, 6-0 league) as favorites to win [...]

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Students from Highline School Disctrict’s Aviation High School in Des Moines have developed two inventions and are applying for a patent for one of them.
Students developed one invention while designing and building a hovercraft in science class. Students decided a practical use for hovercraft might be to use them to move heavy store shelves, allowing [...]

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[ October 22, 2008; 6:00 pm to 8:30 pm. ]
Our friends at the Highline School District tell us they’re holding a special event on Wed. Oct. 22nd called “Life After High School” at Mt. Rainier High School in Des Moines (located at 22450 19th Ave South) from 6pm - 8:30pm.
It’s targeted at both middle and high school students, and will include:

80 college and [...]

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[ October 12, 2008; 3:00 pm; ]

by Josh Hart

This Sunday the Mt. Rainier High School Drill Team is going to perform live at the Seahawks game at halftime!

A fellow student at Big Picture High School, Danielle Knake, is on the drill team for Mt.Rainier (for those who don’t know how sports work for schools like Big Picture it goes [...]

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[EDITOR'S NOTE: This story was written by Josh Hart, a 15-year old student at Highline “Big Picture High School” in SeaTac who recently wrote on the economy as well as the JFK vs Highline football game.]

by Josh Hart
Many of you watched the vice presidential debate last Thursday - this was the one and only debate [...]

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