As I stood beneath the Aurora Bridge, at the edge of Lake Union, I watched streetlights on Highway 99 wink out for the day. I'd gone there to meet Frank Cunningham, Lake Washington Rowing Club's (LWRC) head coach since 1980. While I waited, I admired a beautiful sunrise over the lake as Frank finished coaching for the day, at 7 a.m.
MOUNT BAKER - With a new state of the art track, the girls on the Franklin High School track team can't be any more proud to be running as Quakers. With a team of 10 girls, where only four of the 10 athletes are upperclassman, head coach Tony Franklin has set the expectation of getting as many athletes to the conference meet this season. "The team is young and inexperienced this year, but they are feisty," Franklin said. "We are way ahead of where we are than we thought."
On a warm but overcast spring day, 300 people from across the region gathered at Holy Rosary Church in West Seattle to honor a remarkable politician and community activist. Charlie Chong passed away at age 80 from complications following heart surgery.Actually it may be incorrect to call Chong a politician at all, even though he ran for mayor twice and served on the Seattle City Council for one year in the mid-90s. Call him the anti-politician, given his deep-rooted populist sentiments and his disdain for the groupthink among our local politicians who, once elected, quickly forget those who elected them. Chong never did.
How many police bullets does it take to stop a man?Fifty for New Yorker Sean Bell. Six for 92-year-old Atlanta resident Kathryn Johnston. Forty-one for New Yorker Amadou Diallo.All the police have to do is say that they felt threatened, or they saw something that looked like a gun, or the victim (we prefer perpetrator) resisted the police, and we are ready to dismiss even an investigation.
A big change is underway for Washington's Click it or Ticket campaign, and it just might change seatbelt enforcement efforts throughout the United States. For the first time since the project's inception, seatbelt patrols are moving to nighttime hours, starting Monday, May 21.
Kristin and Eric (sorry, no last name) try a kiss for photographers on Cal Anderson Park on Friday, May 11. The photo session took place just prior to their wedding at a nearby residence. Photo/Kay Rood
That dramatic change is coming to the 12th Avenue commercial core is undeniable. Numerous large projects taking shape or soon to be are serving to transform a stretch of arguably underused urban property into what is becoming one of the Hill's more dynamic streets.The epicenter of such change, even transformation, lies between East Pike and Madison streets. On both sides of the street major mixed-use projects are well under way. These projects are within a stone's throw of the Braeburn project, built on the site of the former Red Apple supermarket, as well as a mixed-use project being built where Thumper's used to be.
With overwhelming support for the Department of Transportations Bicycle Master Plan, the plan's comment period has been extended until Friday, May 18, from its original deadline of May 4.
Here's what's happening at the Seattle Public Library's Capitol Hill Branch in May.In addition to children's programs and the Capitol Hill Book Group, on May 31, join Asian American women writers Nhien Nguyen, Hannah Moon and Maliha Masood for "DisOrient Express: Asian American Women Writers on Journeys of Identity, Resettlement and Dislocation."
SCCC students Rheza Sudali (left) and Alfred Lyanto make ther way back to a dumpster during the Sunday, May 13, Broadway Clean Sweep. Sponsored by the Broadway Business Improvement Association, volunteers spent the morning sprucing up Broadway.
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On a warm but overcast spring day, 300 people from across the region gathered at Holy Rosary church in West Seattle to honor a remarkable politician and community activist. They came together to remember Charlie Chong, who passed away at age 80 from complications following heart surgery. Actually it may be incorrect to call Charlie a politician at all, even though he ran for mayor twice and served on the City Council for one year in the mid-90s. Call him the anti-politician, given his deep-rooted populist sentiments and his disdain for the groupthink among our local politicians who, once elected, quickly forget those who elected them
Thank you for printing Korte Brueckmann's recent article concerning Rainbow Grocery's premature demise ( April 25). However, we, Central Co-op's Madison Market, wish to politely challenge the author's assertion that we were a "comparatively new" neighbor to Rainbow Grocery. Before Central Co-op became Central Co-op's Madison Market and moved to 16th Avenue and Madison Street from 12th Avenue East and East Denny Way in 1999, we existed as a community-owned Capitol Hill business since 1978 (we are, in fact, years older than the charming Rainbow grocery)
Its fading mural advertisement that faces north on 19th Avenue East asks a rhetorical question, then provides the seemingly self-evident answer: "Why pay downtown prices? Wait and see it at the Roycroft Theatre." The ad recalls an earlier era before Blu-Ray technology, the DVD or the VHS tape when second-run theaters found a home in cities throughout the United States, but it concurrently calls us to take stock of our neighborhood history and ensure that the theater and historic buildings like it
Jeff Bosworth has been named the new manager for Wells Fargo's Capitol Hill banking store. Bosworth is a Wells Fargo team member of seven years and will lead the bank's staff of eight inside Safeway on 1410 E. John St.