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Thanksgiving is just around the corner, bringing a large variety of delicious food to the table and a great opportunity to exercise environmental stewardship by buying locally grown food....
Kirkland police this morning arrested a man who broke into a home in the 13100 block of 107th Place Northeast and threatened the occupants with a hatchet before leading police on a chase that ended in Seattle.
At about 3:15, the man broke into the house using the hatchet. The man threatened the home's occupants, who retreated into a bedroom and locked themselves inside.
The man, who police say was the brother of one of the home's occupants, took off in a car and was spotted by Kirkland
Steve said he was not "inclined" to change the boundaries except for one (far south end of California SW) and that there would be an amendment for that. (It's still not on the website but they can introduce them without them actually being on the agenda. At least that is what has happened in the past.)
He said some pretty interesting things about high schools.
Catholic Community Services has invited SHARE to move its emergency homeless shelter to a building at the southeast corner of 13th Avenue and E. Spring Street. The building had been a long-term site of a day care center operated by Catholic Community Services. The children's day care center moved earlier this year.
The proposed SHARE shelter would have a capacity of twenty men and would operate nightly, seven days a week. Since leaving the Community of Christ Church in West Seattle in June, the shelter has been in at least three locations, including the St. James Catherdral, Seattle Prep, and, now, Goodwill Industries on Dearborn Street.
In September Catholic Community Serivces met with the First Hill Improvement Association to inform that group that it intended to establish a permanent housing facility for homeless Veterans at the 13th and Spring location. However, the developer has not lined up funding for the permanent housing project. Catholic Community Services does not know when...
Voracious calls it the "most beautiful coffee shop on the western peninsula that is West Seattle and White Center."
Opened last weekend, it's the first retailer at Greenbridge, a 95-acre public housing community developed by the King County Housing Authority.
"Being open and loving -- and inspiring each other to be that way -- is what I hope this space will achieve," the shop's creator, Sibelle Nguyen, told the West Seattle Herald.
Dubsea carries Stumptown coffee, organic Rishi teas, hot chocolate
An oldie but a goody to start things off today (don't blame us. SPD seems to be on some sort of weird "we'll-release-reports-if-we-feel-like-it" schedule. More on that soon.):
Belltown: Police responded to a report of a fight at 2nd and Bell in the morning hours of November 8th. Officers arrived just after 7:00 a.m. and were flagged down by a man who "began hollering that he was assaulted" and man pointed out another man across the street to police. When officers contacted the second man, he claimed
PostGlobe's Kery Murakami spotted this coyote wandering the parking lot at Pier 91 on the North end of Seattle's waterfront this morning.
Such sightings seems to be getting less rare. Here's an account published earlier this week in the West Seattle Blog. A few years ago, The Seattle Times even published this article on pets disappearing, apparently after falling pretty to those wily pups.
Sightings in the city are so common one website, CoyoteTracker, even set out to document them, and as you can see here, theyd gotten to be pretty common.
Smith Brothers Farms, the Kent-based dairy and home-delivery service, will replace Tully's Coffee with beans from The Vashon Island Coffee Roasterie next month, the roastery said in a press release today.
It's owned by Eva DeLoach, who also owns the organic health food store next door and bought the roastery from Jim Stewart (also the founder of The Wet Whisker originally of Whidbey Island, Stewart Brothers Coffee and Seattle's Best Coffee). She roasts with the help of Peter Larsen, who was Stewart'
"Beacon Hill Station" by galenorama
If you missed our post and poll about Infill Stations last week thanks to our service outage, it’s never too late to go there and vote. I’m somewhat surprised that Graham St. is running away with it so decisively.
- King County slashes ferry district property tax, axing new demonstration routes but keeping Vashon and West Seattle service. This sets the stage to raise the tax right back again to fund Metro RapidRide, as I explained three months ago.
- Seattle
- parents in West Seattle (well, some) are worried about the economic divide that is being created by schools with higher free/reduced lunch students all feeding into one middle school while the
The Seattle Department of Planning and Development (DPD) released its biweekly land use information bulletin yesterday. The following list provides the highlights. For more detailed information, click here.
DPD has determined that a series of land use code text amendments relating to the Living Building Pilot Program will not have any significant
Easy Street West Seattle's latest live event features photography from the neighborhood's own rock photographer David Belisle and tunes from the singular, moody Tiny Vipers (Jesy Fortino).
West Seattle resident David Belisle was tour photographer and personal assistant to R.E.M. from 2001-2008. His photo journal of the band, Hello, was our best-selling book of 2008. David has photographed cover art for Tiny Vipers, Yeah Yeahs Yeahs, the Blakes, Mudhoney and the Presidents
A big crowd attended a special meeting of the Leschi Community Council last night to talk about last weekend's murder of a police officer and the community's response to it.
We've put together a video of key parts at left.
Here's some quotes:
"Someone violated us! Someone came in and violated our standards... Now's the time to show everyone how you stand together as a community, and we're going to hold someone accountable." - John Hayes, Director SPD Community Outreach & Media Relations
"[Officer Brenton's family] had an opportunity to visit the memorial site at 29th & Yesler, and the tremendous outpouring of public support continues and we appreciate it very much." - Capt. Jim Dermody, East Precinct commander
"We don't know who did this, if it was a black or right person, but we want the right person" - DeCharlene Williams, President Central Area Chamber of Commerce
"What happens to one of us happens to all of us... It's happening to all of us ... and all of us have to pull together and find a way to support...
Even police precincts aren't immune to theft. According to a police report filed last week, the Southwest Precinct in West Seattle has been experiencing "a rash of thefts" in the men's locker room.
On October 29th, one officer found that someone had gone
According to a report from his campaign-night event in West Seattle. Not surprising, given that tonight’s results show the current city attorney losing to challenger Pete Holmes, 62 to 38 percent.
Josh doesn’t like predicting the election spread, but it’s a tradition for me and a to-remain-anonymous political friend, so here are my VERY SPECIFIC predictions for this election (legally binding and guaranteed to be true, of course). Read on only at risk of outing yourself to anyone watching as a huge political nerd:
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My Prediction: LOSE by 52 percent. This one will be closer than it should be for such an asinine proposal (in short, it would cap tax growth, creating a permanent recessionary
We’ve teamed up with the Seattle Art Museum (SAM) to host a discussion, Water Calling: Artist Panel, 2 to 3 p.m., Saturday, Nov. 14, at Olympic Sculpture Park’s PACCAR Pavilion. Artists Mandy Greer, Stokley Towles and filmmaker Britta Johnson will present the projects they created for this year’s public art series Water Calling.
For Water Calling, three artists and five filmmakers explored water—examining its flow and its history, offering ways to care for our urban watersheds, and celebrating water’s mythical power. The temporary projects took place at various locations throughout the city.
The panel discussion is part of SAM’s series Creatively Speaking: The Artist’s Point of View. The talk is free, but registration is required. Seating is limited.
The Water Calling projects were commissioned with Seattle Public Utilities 1% for Art funds and were managed by the Office of Arts & Cultural Affairs.
Image: Mandy Greer and Zoe Scofield, Mater Matrix Mother and Medium, 2009, fiber, performance. The temporary installation...
Unsurprisingly, the vast majority of contributions to the two groups opposing to Referendum 71, the gay domestic-partner bill, have come from outside Seattle. Perhaps more surprising is that any of them have come from inside Seattle, where R-71 is expected to pass overwhelmingly. (If you haven’t mailed in your ballot yet: we urged Cola readers to Vote “approve” on R-71 to uphold the state’s existing domestic-partner law). Out of hundreds and hundreds of individual contributors to the anti-gay cause,
This is the last Work Session before the final vote on November 18th AND the first look at any changes to the boundaries . I would expect the most changes for high schools given that Tracy Libros said that they were not "well-balanced" from the initial release of the boundaries. I am hoping to see the Sand Point Elementary boundaries redrawn as well due to the oddities of how large its F/RL population would be relative to
Two west seattle residents were hit in drive-by BB gun shootings last weekend, a police report says.
Around 8:00 p.m. on Saturday, the man was walking his dog in the 6700 block of 35th Ave SW when he was hit by several BBs fired from a moving vehicle.
The ongoing squabble between mayoral candidates Mike McGinn and Joe Mallahan over the gun ban continues. McGinn's volunteer armada just sent out a release, calling for Mallahan to drop his opposition to Mayor Greg Nickels' quixotic fight to ban guns
It’s 8:30 p.m. on a peaceful Seattle summer evening—cars drive along the Alaskan Way Viaduct underneath a sky that is colored pink and orange from the setting sun. Just minutes later the viaduct lies in pieces, smoke from burning fires fills the air and half of the city is without power or communications.
That’s the grim picture painted by a video—released by the Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT) in response to a public disclosure request—that simulates what would happen to the
Former KIRO TV anchor, King County Executive candidate Susan Hutchison, has been disclosing a series of emails that she obtained through public records requests that, she says, show how her opponent, King County Council Member Dow Constantine, pressured his colleagues to vote for a ferry tax.
It’s a pretty weird premise for a critique. Getting his colleagues to vote for legislation is what Consatantine is paid to do. The legislation passed 8-1, with three of
1. The latest SurveyUSA poll in the mayor’s race shows Joe Mallahan in the lead, with 43 percent to Mike McGinn’s 36 percent. Notably, Mallahan has gained among self-identified Democrats: From seven points behind three weeks ago, he’s now two points up among that group. Big caveat, though: Fully 21 percent of voters remained undecided. And most of those voters hadn’t yet cast their ballots. The poll had a margin of error of 4.1 percent.
2. As Keith Ervin at the Seattle Times has reported, King County
Creation of a Spectrum program at Madison
Creation of a Spectrum program at B.F. Day
Creation of a Spectrum program at Hawthorne
Creation of a Spectrum program at Arbor Heights
Closure of a Spectrum program at Leschi
Closure of a Spectrum program at West Seattle Elementary
Creation of a Montessori program at Old Hay
Here's a simple question:
Are these program placement changes described in the new student assignment plan proposals or are they decisions? For example, has it been determined that Hawthorne will be the Spectrum site for the elementary students living in the Mercer middle school service area, or is that merely a proposal that will be discussed and decided in the Program Placement Committee?
The person at the District with administrative responsibility for program placement is Courtney Cameron. I sent her an email asking this simple question, but I didn't get a simple answer. Instead, I got copied on an...
Is anyone surprised that Susan Hutchison and her allies would run down Seattle?They have been running an overtly anti-Seattle campaign for months, which is right out of the Washington State Republicans' textbook (think Slade Gorton or Mike McGavick). Contrast that with Dow, who has experience representing Seattle and the suburbs—his district is half in Seattle, half outside.
Dow is running a campaign to unite King County,
Sharp-eyed Slog tipper Joseph Brick writes:
So, after seeing that cartoony Hutchison anti-Constantine ad a few times on TV, I noticed something that doesn't sound like good politics on her part.It refers to Dow's support for "ferries going nowhere" while showing what is clearly the Sightseer, the ship used for the King County Water Taxi, which goes to West Seattle. I wonder what all of West Seattle would think about being referred to as "nowhere." I mean—it's not like we haven't heard it before—but
Four newish tunnel items:
- Scott Gutierrez breaks down the City’s new full funding plan for its share of the deal. The City Council voted unanimously to approve the agreement.
- “Advokat” at Publicola makes a strong case that the City will not end up paying for overruns. The comment thread has several intelligent rebuttals.
- Eric de Place of Sightline says local tunnel projects almost always have serious overruns. As before, I’m leery of these anti-everything fear, uncertainty, and doubt
Four newish tunnel items:
It starts at 7 pm on channel 21.
7:00 Is anyone else watching? Are Dominic Holden and I are the only ones? It begins with a mishmash montage about McGinn and Mallahan, featuring Joni Balter and Joel Connelly.
7:03 pm: McGinn on why he wants this job: "I know it sounds trite, but I love this city. I've been here for 20 years, ever since I moved out here to go to law school..." He mentions sidewalks, Great City, the parks levy, the public "wanting more boldness from their elected officials."
7:05 pm:
It starts at 7 pm on channel 21.
7:00 Is anyone else watching? Are Dominic Holden and I are the only ones? It begins with a mishmash montage about McGinn and Mallahan, featuring Joni Balter and Joel Connelly.
7:03 pm: McGinn on why he wants this job: "I know it sounds trite, but I love this city. I've been here for 20 years, ever since I moved out here to go to law school..." He mentions sidewalks, Great City, the parks levy, the public "wanting more boldness from their elected officials."
7:05 pm:
Saturday and Sunday, October 17 and 18, The Seattle Department of Transportation will be removing and replacing markings in the bus lane eastbound on the West Seattle Bridge from the Avalon Way on-ramp, adjacent to the old steel mill, to the First Avenue S off-ramp, just past the SR99 exit. In conjunction with the pavement marking work, the crews will also be installing signs.
The work will be carried out between 7 a.m. and 4 p.m. each day. Motorists should use caution and be watchful for buses needing to pull out of the bus lane in the work zone.
A power outage in West Seattle that began just before 7 pm this evening was restored just after 9:30 pm. About 2,800 customers were affected. The cause was an underground cable failure. the original boundaries were:
N: SW Findlay St
S: SW Henderson St
E: 34th Av SW
W: Puget Sound
An outage in West Seattle that began about 7 pm this evening was due to an underground cable failure. About 2,800 customers affected. Restoration to all customers is expected about 9 p.m.
The original boundaries:
N: SW Findlay St
S: SW Henderson St
E: 34th Av SW
W: Puget Sound
An outage in West Seattle that began just before 7 pm leaves almost 2,800 customers without power.
The boundaries are:
N: SW Findlay St
S: SW Henderson St
E: 34th Av SW
W: Puget Sound
The cause and restoration time are unknown as crews investigate
SDOT crews will close the westbound, left hand lane on the West Seattle Bridge on Monday, October 19 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. This closure will allow the Seattle Fire Department to check the fire suppression system.
For more information, contact (206) 684-ROAD, or (206) 684-7623
Media contact: Peg Nielsen, (206) 684-8114
Proponents of Referendum 71 - which would preserve Washington state's new domestic partnership law -- launched its first TV ad on Tuesday, featuring a West Seattle lesbian couple, Jane Abbott Lightyand Pete-ePetersen.
In the ad, Lighty and Petersen said they were both in nursing, that Petersen had served in the Korean War and that they'd been together for 32 yearss. They raised a daugher together and have two grandchildren. As they are getting older, they said the referendum would help them take carfe of each other.
Watch the ad here.
The link includes an interesting online fundraising tool. which has been used to raise $100 million for Democratic candidates and organizations nationally.
R-71 camopaign spokeswoman Sue Evans said airtime for the televison ad has already been purchased. Most of the ads will appear on network televison and targeted cable channels like BRAVO and Comedy Central, which reach more younger voters.
Despite a slow political fundraising year, state Public Disclosure Commission records show the...
A recently released police report details another case of homophobic graffiti in West Seattle. The case is strikingly similar to previous incidents in the neighborhood, where a suspect was arrested and released last May.
On September 10, at approx 2:30 p.m., a woman reported to the Seattle Police Department
Jenny Jimenez arrived in Seattle in 1999 and started taking concert photos almost right away. She's played bass in The Catch, shot The Stranger's "Club Directory" for five years, and is available to shoot your wedding or other photography. That's right: You can book the photographer for Sleater-Kinney's farewell show for your wedding. (I only wish we'd had that option.)
To mark 10 years of picture taking, Jimenez has a retrospective, "Show Me Your TIFFs," hanging at the Skylark in West Seattleright
From the Seattle Department of Transportation:
SDOT crews plan to work on the West Seattle Bridge at the Harbor Avenue exit on Saturday, October 10 from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. replacing a crash cushion. They will be working on the shoulder and will merge traffic around the work site.
SDOT crews plan to work on the West Seattle Bridge at the Harbor Avenue exit on Saturday, October 10 from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. replacing a crash cushion. They will be working on the shoulder and will merge traffic around the work site.
For more information: (206) 684-ROAD (206-684-7623)
Media contact: Marybeth Turner, (206) 684-8548
- This one is big so hence the boldface. The high school boundaries are LIKELY to shift especially in the north. DO NOT assume the map is correct at this time. This is because Tracy said that the enrollment numbers used for them are "not well-balanced". Not sure what this means but I do know it means that they don't have it quite right at this point. Maybe by the first community meeting on Saturday but stay tuned. This is not my supposition but very much what was said at the meeting.
