Bring Your own Barrel/Bottle (BYOB) has been open for some time as a private warehouse where a handful of locals had been making their wine. Now, BYOB owner Michael Almquist is going public.
In this week's Queen Anne Community Council election, 63 votes were cast for 11 vacant positions. Thirteen candidates vied for the spots. Winning candidates are listed below.
The Queen Anne Community Council will meet at 7:30 p.m., Oct. 7 at the McClure Middle School library at 1915 First Ave. W. Topics of interest to the Queen Anne Community will be discussed. The meeting is open to all interested Queen Anne residents. For further information please contact Ellen Monrad at elmonrad@gmail.com.
You may have noticed a sparkly-eyed, attractive senior bustling about the lower Queen Anne neighborhood. Dressed smartly in silver and black, coiffed white hair, carrying a white cane, she may be boarding a Metro bus for an appointment, performance or dance lesson.
...For quality purposes, your call may be recorded? You've heard that before? Of course you have. It's become part of our daily dialogue when you make a call to any corporation who has swallowed the paranoid pill. And by the way, "may be recorded"? I don't think so. We know it is recorded and it isn't for our benefit or any form of quality. It's so they don't get sued by us or their minimum-waged employees.
Tim Burgess, Seattle City Councilmember, will soon be proposing legislation that will take a more aggressive stance on panhandling as reported in the "Seattle Times," Sept. 11, and in a talk show interview with KUOW's Ross Reynolds.
Americans have become a people who seem to believe the louder you shriek the truer something is. That's why, despite annually massive handgun carnage, more than 16,000 Americans murdered by gun last year, and another 25,000 dead by their own hand with the aid of handguns, the gun nuts scream "liberty" at the first sign of gun sanity.
So has it come to this?That Seattle Public Schools is even considering a proposal to toss out the requirement that all students maintain a C average in order to graduate, and that all student athletes must do the same to play, is deeply disappointing.
The building at 315 1st Ave. N. in Lower Queen Anne has its share of history, and not all of it pleasant, but the new tenant, KwaTay's Restaurant & Lounge, brings a new flavor to Lower Queen Anne, literally.
This weekend's 18th annual Sundodger Invitational may not have had top results for Seattle Pacific University, but to coach Erika Daligcon, the meet gave direction for what Falcon runners need to do to stay competitive in conference.
It might smell fishy, but that's the way they like it.
The weather couldn't have been better for this year's Fishermen's Fall Festival.
Councilmember Larry Phillips has been representing our district on the Metropolitan King County Council for the past decade and a half. He planted the seeds last year that he would be considering a challenge against former King County Executive Ron Sims. He was the first to make the official announcement that he was running January of this year.