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Kinnear woes rise

Police reports, witnesses see 'explosion' of drug activity at queen anne park

Kinnear Park has recently turned into an open-air drug den, according to police reports and people who live near the Queen Anne greenbelt.

Passages in 2008

Doug Lorentzen and Les Henson

Best sporting moments

2008's best moments in sports

SPU soccer. What a thrilling accomplishment it was for the Falcons at Seattle Pacific University. The women of SPU beat the University of Western Florida 1-0 in double overtime to win the national Division II championship. Falcons coach Chuck Sekyra coached his team to a 17-1-2 season.

Pearls and wisdom

Mary Dunleavy reprises role of sexy Leila

Soprano Mary Dunleavy allows it is something of an oddity she has performed so often in an opera as sporadically produced in the modern repertoire as Georges Bizet's "The Pearl Fishers." The American opera singer, who makes her Seattle Opera debut in Bizet's opera on Jan. 10 as the priestess Leïla, has also sung the role in New York, Philadelphia and St. Louis.

Harold Loer Rehkopf

Harold Loer Rehkopf of Seattle passed away peacefully Dec. 19, 2008. He was 89.

August George Traxinger

An icon of the Magnolia community

August Traxinger, commonly known as Gus, passed away at his Magnolia home on Friday, Sept. 26, from gastric cancer.

Jeri F. Evans

Beloved mother and friend

It is with great sadness that we note the passing of our mother, Jeri. She passed away under hospice care at Briarwood Health Center in Issaquah, due to complications from open heart surgery.

Whole Foods debacle escalates

Whole Foods terminated its lease in September with developer TRF Pacific after putting a halt to interior work on its new 60,000-square-foot store in Interbay, according to a lawsuit TRF filed in King County Superior Court on Sept. 26.

A ghostly visitor appears

Author of haunted series comes to McClure Middle School

Joseph Delaney's adult son and his wife entered the house and right away could feel the chill of something not quite right.

SPU tops Saint Martins 4-1

Meredith Teague registered her third multiple-goal game of the season with a pair of scores Saturday that led 11th-ranked Seattle Pacific to a 4-1 victory over Saint Martin's in a Great Northwest Athletic Conference women's soccer game at Interbay Stadium.

Speight at 25

During the Seattle Opera Board of Trustee's annual retreat on April 1, one vote was unanimous. In recognition of his remarkable accomplishments, the board voted by acclamation to dedicate the 2008/09 season to General Director Speight Jenkins. Steven Phelps, president of Seattle Board of Trustees, summed up his accomplishments as follows.This season marks Jenkins' 25th anniversary with Seattle Opera. During

Demented Mama

Knighted Plowright sure to stir the pot in Strauss’ Elektra

Richard Strauss' "Elektra" is renowned as a tour de force for the soprano in the title role. She is onstage for most of the 100-minute running time, and the composer's voluptuous yet dissonant music is challenging. Still, any production of "Elektra" will fall flat unless Elektra's mother,

Out on a limb

Magnolia photographer’s new book focuses on owls and woodpeckers

Paul Bannick received late word that an explosion of Great Gray Owls was spotted flying across Northern Minnesota. It was a random event and rare opportunity to document the birds, so he hastily got on a plane and flew to Minneapolis. When he got there, he found another surprise.The cold.

A hole in one!

Lawton student has a day at golf tourney

Garrett Spragins, a Lawton School third grader, made a hole in one during the Northwest Junior Golf Tour's Mini Tour tournament at McCormick Woods golf course in Port Orchard, Sunday, Oct. 19.