Santa’s flight team awaits you and your family at Issaquah’s 23rd annual Reindeer Festival at the Cougar Mountain Zoo. This year the festival will run from December 1 to 23, from 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. daily.

When people think about home sewing, many visualize Great-Grandma’s treadle sewing machine—no power, just a belt and a foot to keep that baby stitching.

At 18 to 24 months, dogs look nearly full grown. Habits, good or bad, become practiced and ingrained, and the resources a young dog controls are starting to cement for life.

Whether you and the kids are trundling off to the beach, zooming away to distant lands or simply hanging out at home, why not while away those long summer days with a basket of books?

Harsh truths circle every season of high-school-affiliated sports: tryouts, cuts, limited playing time, superstar egos and bench warmer blues.

I was 12 years old, poring over the shelves of books at the public library, when the librarian, Mrs. Caparelli, offered me some advice: “If you’re going to read, read something good.” Holding up Scott O’Dell’s Island of the Blue Dolphins, she tapped the round brass-colored sticker fixed to the book’s cover. “You can’t go wrong with a Newbery Medal winner.” The award has been given out annually since 1922. That gave me plenty of books to choose from.

In our last two articles we guided you through the puppy selection process and then shared some secrets to successful puppy raising. The focus was on the blissful puppy “honeymoon” phase, when everyone is still in love with the adorable, furry bundle of joy and the puppy can seem to do no wrong. In this article, we turn our attention to adolescence and give you some tips for taming the teenage dog.

It’s hard to miss the many advertisements attracting families and students to the opportunities of online schools. The appeal of online learning is obvious. Students can take a class to free up their schedule so they have room for an elective, learning is individualized, students can set their own pace, and they can learn anytime from anywhere in the world.

Waiting patiently in line, being a supportive friend, and following directions. Great skills for everyone to have, right? But they are also perfect examples of what kids learn in preschool.

Governor Christine Gregoire signed the nation’s toughest and most enlightened return-to-play law on May 14, 2009, requiring medical clearance of youth athletes suspected of sustaining a concussion, before sending them back to the game, practice, or training