After a long illness, Neil Timothy Jones died May 2. He was 42.
Aries (Mar. 20-Apr. 19) A busy weekend with new and big opportunities! Your intuition is still strong!
Enrollment at Queen Anne Elementary School is less than half of what the school district projected, but preparations for the new option school have not slowed down.
The Queen Anne Farmers Market (QAFM) launches its new season Thursday with five additional weeks, an expanded site and more vendors.
Bank RobberyOn May 10 at 11:42 a.m. a man walked into a bank in the 1600 block of Queen Anne Avenue North and handed a teller a note that read, "This is a robbery. No alarms. No tracers. No dye packs. Give me the money."After being handed an undetermined amount of cash, the suspect left southbound on Queen Anne Avenue North. Police were called to the scene.
Local sports fans may have noticed that this season Seattle Storm jerseys say "Bing" on the front instead of "Storm." No, it's not an homage to Tacoma native Bing Crosby. Last month, the Storm announced that the Microsoft Bing logo will replace "Storm" and "Seattle" on home and away jerseys as part of a new multiyear sponsorship deal between the professional women's basketball team and the corporate giant.
Unfortunately, that last word in the headline, "beat," was a verb, not a noun - at least in the case of the now-notorious April 17 incident in which two Seattle officers kicked and stomped on a non-resisting suspect on Westlake Avenue (who later turned out to be innocent) while several other officers stood around and watched. Just another day at the office.
Magnolia Community Club, Queen Anne Community Council, North Seattle Industrial Association, Democrats and Republicans say "No!" County Council member Larry Phillips speaks against it, and Port of Seattle Commission President Bill Bryant says it is a move "in exactly the wrong direction." Rep. Reuven Carlyle is a long-time opponent.
The 2010 regular and special legislative sessions have adjourned. While we worked diligently to complete our work by March 13, it turned out that to do so in 60 days was not enough time to balance our budget while facing a historic revenue shortfall. In no uncertain terms, we had to completely rewrite our biennial budget. After closing a revenue gap of more than $9 billion in 2009, we had to fill another $2.8 billion hole during the 2010 legislative session. As demand for public services grew, we cut more than any Legislature in state history. While businesses lose customers during tough economic times, there is greater demand on government for public services. Need for health care, emergency assistance, job training and state financial aid increase, just as our ability to pay for them decreases.
This November, with Referendum 52 on the ballot, Washington voters have a rare chance to see a kind of collaboration that could simultaneously enfranchise students, improve schools, build neighborhood pride, foster sustainability, help the environment and create thousands of jobs.
The challenge was to find a means to alternative energy. Last weekend, at the Imagine Tomorrow competition, Ballard High School students met that challenge head on.
MCC has rubber teethDear Editor:It is getting a bit old the ongoing published reports by the Magnolia News about how the Magnolia Community Club ("MCC") is aggrieved about some action either the City of Seattle or the Port of Seattle is taking that impacts Magnolia.
I wrote a column about a month ago concerning my paternal grandparents, good German folk (if recent history doesn't make that, if not them personally, oxymoronish) and promised at that time to equal the books with some news about my Mom's family. Well to start there are two things: Mom's people are generally far more interesting, and I know a whole lot less about them.
Recently one morning, Michael B. Wright, 69, a tall, bespectacled Magnolia resident with shortish, curly white hair walked into the Upper Crust bakery on Magnolia and handed me a lumpy 10" x 13" manila envelope. It was addressed to: Emmy McDaniel.
Seattle Parks and Recreation is undergoing one of the toughest times in its history. Its superintendent, Tim Gallagher, left May 10 on less-than auspicious terms after it was learned he spent (albeit within his allotted travel expenses) $6,000 on a trip to a conference in Australia.