Reaching the midway point of their season last week, the boys and girls of Rainier District Little League rounded second and headed for home with the baseball action unfolding on a variety of diamonds throughout the South End.
In 1891, D.W, or "Will" Brown, walked over Beacon Hill to the future site of Columbia City, where he would build his new home. He was the first to purchase one of the lots cleared by developer J.K Edminston.
Two major developments in local transportation planning during the last month point to a worrisome trend. With universal frustration over our area's interminable transportation and planning gridlocks, new efforts to try to solve the problem seem intent on saving time and hassle by cutting the public out of the decision-making process.
"Why would I want to see him"? My daughter said with teenage attitude when offered a ticket to see the Dalai Lama last month. Her "tude"was not out the ordinary, but the chance to miss school certainly was. My paternal instincts prompted a lecture on taking advantage of opportunities when they present themselves.
Just over a week ago I was taken to the VA Hospital for plastic surgery. It was an experience I will never forget.
A 55-year-old woman living in the 5300 block of Columbia Drive South left her residence for two hours in the afternoon. When she came home at 3 p.m. she found that someone has broken her back screen door.
On Sunday, Jake Phelps brought his much-anticipated Thrasher Skate Rock concert series to the Marginal Way Skate Park in the SODO neighborhood for an afternoon filled with barbecue burgers, cold beer, live music and hardcore skateboarding. Hundreds of skateboarders and skateboarding fans ranging in age from 13 to 50 gathered to either participate or watch.
Georgetown - Mayor Greg Nickels presented funding awards last week to 18 Neighborhood Business District Associations throughout Seattle to continue the city's investments in building healthy communities.
As Rainier Little League heads into the home stretch of its regular season, some tight standings and one potential runaway headline the divisional races in the league's Majors, Minors and Rookies divisions.
There is a conversation going on during the Democratic primary that is exhilarating on one hand and very disturbing on the other. It's exhilarating because it's about the possibility of an African American winning the nomination, but it's disturbing because it dredges up old fears and beliefs.
At 1:58 a.m., numerous neighbors complained of hearing gunshots near the 5100 block of S. Creston St.
That the middle of Broadway is changing is pretty hard to miss. With Sound Transit taking possession of nearly one-and-a-half blocks on Broadway south of East John Street to build Broadway's light-rail station, numerous storefronts are now empty or soon will be as the transit agency prepares to demolish the buildings.For Michael Dobbie, who has lived near Broadway for 10 years, the vacated properties present a vital, albeit temporary opportunity. He envisions creating a community arts space in one or more of the vacant storefronts.
If the so-called Beacon Hill Groper continues to have his way, what some people up in North Seattle say about our community, that it's not safe to walk the streets down here, might be true.Last November, area police told a group of South End neighbors that, in all likelihood, it was a lone culprit who had been targeting women for sexual assault along the Beacon Hill corridor since as far back as August 2006. And after an almost eight-week lull in attacks, which seems typical for this suspect, he seems to have struck again.
The Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT) has released for public review a draft transportation plan developed to serve as a blueprint for improvements in Southeast Seattle over the next 20 years.
Only two weeks left in the Rainier District Little League season