While the holiday season comes to a close, winter weather is still in full swing. And this year, Seattle Department of Transportation has a new approach to snow.
SquattersA man came home from his vacation home on Whidbey Island at 9 p.m., Dec. 27, to find his basement door open. His house is located on West Prospect Street. The basement door leads to the laundry room, and the laundry room door was open to the rest of the house. He called 9-1-1 as those doors are never left open.
Magnolia Little Leaguehas opened its registration for the 2010 season. Registration, league information, and a calendar of events can be found online at www.magnolialittleleague.com. Skills evaluations for players participating in the AAA or Majors baseball divisions will be held on Saturday and Sunday, Feb. 6, 7, at field No. 2 just south of Monger Pool. Players for these divisions must be registered by Jan. 31.
Newly inaugurated Seattle Mayor Mike McGinn's decision on the first day of the job, to thin overlap and top heaviness in city government was the right thing to do.
What's with breast cancer lately? In 2009, too many women I know or know of were diagnosed with it.
If I was a country singer, I would call my new place in life Disappointment City. I wrote here two weeks ago about my disappointment with new Mayor Mike the Faux Outsider who has already appointed a Paul Allen flunky and other political insiders to important spots on his "team."
Happy New Year greetings to all, including the Comcast trucks that continue to garishly prune my street trees with their bucket operations.
Years ago, way back at what seemed to be the dawn of time (actually it was only 1956, and I was 10 years old), my father bought a little quarter-midget race car for my younger brother and I to race on the tenth-of-a-mile dirt ovals that were appearing around Southern California back then.
Mayor Mike McGinn today announced Peter E. Hahn as his appointment for director of the Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT), pending City Council confirmation.
Facebook.com used to be the private playground of students who could freely express themselves without fear of judgment; it was a personal tool for communication, social bonding, vents about professors and parents, and the creation of inside jokes.
Facebook.com used to be the private playground of students who could freely express themselves without fear of judgment; it was a personal tool for communication, social bonding, vents about professors and parents, and the creation of inside jokes.
David Elliott, who for 10 years has been principal at Coe Elementary School atop Queen Anne hill, will be transferred to the Old John Hay option school effective this fall.
Almost 145 years since the end of the American Civil War, people no longer think of its impact on a day-to-day basis. And even if they did, the history that comes to mind is likely restricted to a few famous names and battles.
THEATREStone Soup Theatre' 2009-2010 Season is in full swing. Fool for Love by Sam Shepard, Feb. 19-March 14, 2010; The Vagina Monologues 10th Anniversary Edition, by Eve Ensler, April 2-24, 2010; Original One-Act Play Festival, May 13-23, 2010. For tickets and more information visit www.stonesouptheatre.org
Can success be found in a cup of coffee? At the very least, it can be found with a cup of coffee at Muse Coffee Company in Queen Anne.