Deadly Road Rage After being involved in an altercation on the road in which another driver hit him with her car, a man called 911 to report the assault at 2:44 p.m. on Sunday, Feb. 12.
Seattle Mayor Mike McGinn said negotiations are continuing with the Army as to whether the city will receive control of the 28-acre Army Reserve base along the northeast corner of Discovery Park.
Search for new Catharine Blaine principal Nancy Coogan, Executive Director for the Central region schools, will hold a community meeting to discuss the process for hiring a principal at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, Feb. 29 at Catharine Blaine K-8 cafeteria, 2550 34th Ave. W. in Magnolia. Any parent or local resident is encouraged to attend the meeting and ask questions.
Crabby Cabbie A Queen Anne resident called 911 on Saturday, Feb. 17, after being assaulted by a cab driver outside her home on West Raye Street at about 10 p.m.
Neighborhoods are so much more than houses and lawns and fences and people. They are living time capsules of memories and journeys and relationships. They hold stories authored by their inhabitants who pass their pen to new generations. And the stories continue. Similar storylines, different characters.
The giant, yellow construction cranes are sprouting all over Seattle again, like enormous, early spring daffodils. There’s one at the end of my street in Wallingford now, looming over a block-long, earthen pit that, until a couple of months ago, was a group of about a dozen single-story, rental bungalows and a two-story commercial building.
On Feb. 7, Mayor Mike McGinn announced the city is investing $1.6 million in 137 arts, heritage and cultural organizations for 2012. Flanked by Seattle City Councilmember Nick Licata and selected recipients, the mayor said at a press event at the 5th Avenue Theater, “The strong relationship between art and the strength of our local economy is a part of why Seattle is an attractive place to live.
One would think, from the Feb. 16 pep rally that was the press conference to announce the new arena proposal, that a third sports stadium in SODO, for basketball and hockey, was a slam-dunk.
Gluck’s “Orphée et Eurydice” is all about the tenor in the title role: He is rarely offstage and he must be a superb high tenor conversant with the French operatic style.
You’ve come home from work after a horrible day. Your boss micromanaged your project and picked apart everything you’d done. In your mail, you get a letter from your bank saying there’s been a screw-up, and it takes you half an hour to get through on the phone, continually getting recorded messages asking you to repeat yourself. You find yourself yelling at the phone.
The other day I was strolling down lower Queen Anne Ave. and I stopped to thumb my way through the rack of 99-cent, “previously owned,” albums displayed outside of one of record shops. I was nonchalantly searching for the forgotten tunes of my youth.
We are committed to the environment at our house, recycling everything that stands still long enough (makes our cat nervous). Our garbage pail is a tiny black box this is typically only half-full.
February brought bittersweet news of two pending, upper Queen Anne changes: Metropolitan Market will vacate its location this August and Queen Anne Books is up for sale.
Metro’s proposal to make major changes to Magnolia bus service has pleased some residents, confused most of them, and shocked the residents of West Magnolia, who are about to lose 90 percent of their bus service.
Seattle officials announced recently that the controversial Nickerson Street diet project has increased safety by lowering the speed of traffic and reducing collisions.