Officers were dispatched to the 5100 block of S. Roxbury St. to investigate a domestic violence disturbance. At the scene, officers contacted a "screaming and hysterical" woman standing on an upstairs deck, bleeding from a head wound.
The Seattle Public Library is inviting the public to tour all 26 new and remodeled branches and the Central Library with a commemorative Library Passport available at neighborhood branches in South Seattle and all other Library locations beginning Saturday, Sept. 13.
The first annual report for the Drinking Water Quality Program, released today, shows 93 percent of water sources in the 31 schools tested this year pass all requirements set forth in the Drinking Water Policy, up from 60 percent in 2004.
The Restore Our Waters and the Cascade Bicycling Club are teaming up for Restore Our Waters Cascade Spawning Cycle on Sept. 14. Restore Our Waters is the City of Seattle's commitment to take actions and promote partnerships to protect and improve the area's creeks, lakes, the Duwamish River and Puget Sound.
Local Puerto Ricans drove Wanda Benvenutti down a dry road in El Paso, Texas, where the Rio Grande drew a line between freedom and desolation.From where she stood on American soil she could see across the river where Mexican families holed up in shanties. She saw mothers taking their children down to the river to bathe them. Pet goats drank from the river.Benvenutti's camera, for perhaps the first time on her 10-year photojournalism project documenting Puerto Rican life in America, was not firing.
There's a pretty fair chance that at some point I'm going to kill myself.And when I do, it's none of the government's business.Opponents of I-1000, this November's "Death With Dignity" initiative, are cloaking their basic, essentially religious concerns about suicide in scare tactics over a potential for "abuse" which, in 10 years of Oregon's experience with assisted suicide for the terminally ill, simply hasn't happened.
The radicality required to find a working solution that might allow automobiles and bicycles to co-exist peacefully is exactly the radicality that's missing on all sides of the issue. This was brought to the fore recently, and written about ad naseum, after the altercation last month between a few bikers from Critical Mass and an utterly discomposed driver.
So now we know. Alaska Governor Sarah Palin has been chosen by John McCain to be his running mate in the upcoming presidential election. With her selection last week, the McCain campaign managed to steal some thunder from the Democratic National Convention and at the same time prompt an overwhelming majority of the electorate to ask, "Sarah who?"
Nowhere is the classroom transformation more apparent at the gloriously renovated Garfield High School than in Bonnie Hungate-Hawk's fine-arts room. Before the school temporarily moved to Wallingford in 2004 to accommodate the extensive renovation and modernization of the Central Area's historic, 1920s-era neo-Jacobian building, Hungate-Hawk taught her students in the confining space of a converted girls locker room that had no natural light
In a movie paradise long ago, going to a Sunday matinee meant a cliffhanger chapter in a serial story where the hero was left dangling above certain death until the next week, a cartoon to make the audience rock with laughter and a full-length feature film.The two-man Sprocket Society (www.sprocketsociety.org) is bringing back that old-time popcorn fun to the Northwest Film Forum (NWFF). The new Secret Sunday Matinee begins at noon each Sunday at NWFF, 1515 12th Ave. The series began last week and runs for another through Nov. 23.
The following are based on incident reports from the Seattle Police Department's East Precinct. They represent the officers' accounts of the events described. TrespassingAt 10:20 p.m. on Thursday, Aug. 28, officers responded to a Melrose Avenue East apartment after learning that a man who had previously been issued a trespass admonishment card for the building had returned and come inside.
Ever since the Critical Mass incident in Capitol Hill at the end of July, there has been a lot of discussion about the rights of car drivers and the rights of bicycle riders on the streets of Seattle. Although this dialogue has been important and worthwhile, an important aspect has been neglected. What's missing is mention of the real victim of these brutal road wars: me!You see, I am a pedestrian. I live in Wallingford and walk to work. I walk to the grocery store and the barber shop. I walk to restaurants, pubs, video stores, doughnut shops and bookstores. I walk in summer sun, fall mist, winter snow and spring rain. And the one constant in all my walking is the fact that no matter where I go, I almost get flattened by a car or a bike.
Pat Halsell heard the chainsaw on the morning of Saturday, Aug. 9, and ran outside in her bathrobe. In her back yard she saw a cherry picker, a chipper and men dressed in T-shirts and flannel gathered around the weeping poplar tree. As she watched, pleading, then shouting, the men - under the direction of her neighbor Dan Cawdrey - pruned the tree.
So now we know: Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin has been chosen by Republican Sen. John McCain to be his running mate in the upcoming presidential election. With her selection last week, the McCain campaign managed to steal some thunder from the Democratic National Convention and at the same time prompt an overwhelming majority of the electorate to ask, "Sarah who?"
Developers of commercial and multifamily residential projects past a certain threshold in Seattle can't just whip up some plans, get a permit from the city and start building. The city doesn't get a free pass either on capital-improvement projects.Instead, both camps need to go through a design-review process that began in 1994 for private projects and in 1968 for the city's capital-improvement projects.The need was especially evident with private projects, according to Vince Lyons, manager of the city's design-review program. The problem was the result of new land-use codes that went into effect in the early 1980s, he said.The new codes were a creative attempt to prevent the creation of ugly buildings, but it didn't work out that way.