William Herbert Fletcher, 94, passed away peacefully in Seattle on April 12. Mr. Fletcher was born in Spokane on March 25, 1914. Mr. Fletcher was an Eagle Scout and loved the outdoors.
This spring's sunny moments, or at least the dry periods between the showers, are offering gardeners fleeting chances to work in their gardens. Still, we are hearing from lots of people with some common problems this year.
Law enforcement in King County will conduct extra patrols this summer to help control the number of speeding drivers or those driving while intoxicated.
TRAVELING CLINIC COMES TO SEATTLE A 38-foot customized traveling education and health-screening clinic on wheels will be arriving in Seattle on Thursday, June 19 as part of the 2008 Walgreens Take Care Health Tour.
TRAVELING CLINIC COMES TO SEATTLE A 38-foot customized traveling education and health-screening clinic on wheels will be arriving in Seattle on Thursday, June 19 as part of the 2008 Walgreens Take Care Health Tour.
Beginning on Monday this week, parishioners from Our Lady of Fatima in Magnolia are celebrating mass in the gym.
Work on the Thomas C. Wales Park on Dexter Avenue North faced a major hurdle earlier this year when artist Andrew Cao bowed out of the $745,000 project.
High-end used cars and SUVs have replaced shelves of groceries in a space once occupied by the QFC on Republican Street. The grocery moved last year to new digs at Mercer and Fifth Avenue North.
The Seattle Department of Transportation calls them BAT lanes, which stands for Business Access and Transit lanes, and it's a transit approach that will affect motorists along the Elliott Avenue West corridor. Some would say for the worse.
Jim Landerdahl jumped in his blue 2004 Chevy Trailblazer last week and during a four-day period, slowly drove about 30 miles zig-zagging through Magnolia streets looking for flags perched on porch pillars.
Center School seniors Jhonny Smith and Abby Haggerty share a moment before the processional at Monday evening's Center School graduation at the Seattle Repertory Theatre. Center School, located in Seattle Center, graduated 57 students. Seattle Repertory Theatre is also located on the grounds of Seattle Center. The alternative high school focuses on the arts such as film and video. Students there often participate in KeyArena events and some international events such as the recent visit from the Dalai Lama.
Cubmaster, Lee Eggebroten of the Queen Anne Cub Scouts is joined by Andrew Kamemoto, Adam Paganelli, Henry Burreson, Asa Campbell and Jack Wiley to throw out the first pitch at last Friday's Mariners' game. The boys were chosen for their exceptional attendance, uniform care, achievement, behavior, attitude, desire and commitment.
Although I do not condone mothers eating their young in the wild, now that I have teenagers, I fully understand the impetus.
It was 1996 and the dead of winter, which in Minneapolis is far more than a metaphor. We sat facing each other in my office at the church. I was 38, in my first year as a pastor. He was just a couple years older, with long hair and a well-deserved national reputation as an outstanding artist. His artwork had moved him into a lucrative income bracket and a mansion in an exclusive suburb. He didn't go to church, nor did he necessarily believe in God. And so the question kept rolling through my mind, "Why is he in my office?"
As far back as Aristotle, pundits have been linking crime to poverty. For the record, the old Greek philosopher said poverty was the school for crime. Yet during the Great Depression, in the 1930s, some violent crime rates actually went down. Theorists claimed the surprising decrease might have been due to the folks feeling they were all in a sinking boat together.