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| Volunteers trailblaze through Yesler Swamp work |
The relatively unknown, six-acre Yesler Swamp in the Laurelhurst neighborhood will get a day of welcome attention as community volunteers are set to put on a family program of Native American folklore at the Museum of History & Industry (MOHAI) on Sunday, Aug. 22. (1 comments) Wednesday, August 18, 2010
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| Up goes the neighborhood?
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Nearly 200 community members attended a meeting July 21 on a proposal that could include towers up to 160 feet high next to Roosevelt High School. (1 comments) Wednesday, August 04, 2010
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| SCAN-TV fears loss of public funding |
With difficult budget decisions facing city officials in the coming weeks, SCAN (Seattle Community Access Network), Seattle’s designated public-access manager for public-access television, is in danger of having its city contract expire without an offer for renewal. Wednesday, August 04, 2010
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| Parenting rears new concerns, goals with each generation |
Parenting is nothing new. Ever since the beginning of humanity, people have had children and become parents, and their children after them have continued the cycle by having their own kids and becoming parents themselves. Wednesday, August 04, 2010
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| From the Supreme Court to Seattle:
What could the gun law mean for you? |
It’s an age-old argument: If you make guns illegal, only outlaws will have them. And if you take handguns away from upstanding citizens, you leave those who respect the law vulnerable to those who break the law. So what’s a Supreme Court to do, and how does it affect the Emerald City? Wednesday, August 04, 2010
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| Coming soon to a street near you |
You are waiting in a long line at Starbucks for your daily latte. A man and woman argue about what they want to order, someone asks if they can sit at a table, a stack of Jenga blocks falls to the floor — nothing out of the ordinary. Wednesday, July 21, 2010
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| Teens get green at inaugural camp |
On a trail at the edge of the wetlands in Magnuson Park, the pristine face of the Pacific Northwest is in bloom. Madronas freckle the landscape, and the wild Nootka roses blush while flickers, robins and sparrows zip through the blackberry bristles. A group of teens armed with pickaxes, loppers and shovels surround a growing pile of blackberry bushes. (1 comments) Wednesday, July 21, 2010
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| Chihuly, KEXP dominate final Fun Forest hearing |
Financial viability and community impact were the biggest concerns expressed in the final public hearing July 7 regarding Seattle Center’s Fun Forest South. Wednesday, July 21, 2010
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| BRIEFLY | City's OED invests in business districts |
The city’s Office of Economic Development (OED) recently announced more than $160,000 in investments in neighborhood business districts. Wednesday, July 21, 2010
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| BRIEFLY | Local groups receive PSE Foundation funds |
The Puget Sound Energy Foundation recently announced that it will distribute 61 grants worth a total of $155,000 to local charitable organizations throughout Washington as part of its first of two funding rounds in 2010. Wednesday, July 21, 2010
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| SEATTLE SOUNDINGS | The school district's lightning rod |
You’d never know it from the local TV or our daily Newspaper of (Selective) Record, but a lot of people are unhappy with Seattle Public Schools Superintendent Maria Goodloe-Johnson.
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| On the roll again |
Wheels slapped pavement at the June 24 opening of the Dahl Skatespot, 7700 25th Ave. N.E., in Wedgwood, where more than 50 skateboarders, in-line skaters and scooter riders came to polish their tricks at the new community-initiated skatepark.
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| Another lake waterway reopens to public access |
The restoration of Waterway 18 on the Lake Union shoreline was completed in June, making a greenspace available to the entire community.
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| BRIEFLY | Local historic sites receive preservation grants |
The National Trust for Historic Preservation recently announced a diverse group of historic and culturally significant sites in the Seattle-Puget Sound area to receive grants for historic preservation projects.
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| Diaz named new police chief |
After more than a year as the interim chief of police, John Diaz was officially declared chief at a press conference Thursday (June 24) morning.
Thursday, June 24, 2010
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| Fremont fire claims five lives |
Five people — including four children — were killed in a fire at a Fremont home on the morning of Saturday, June 12.
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| Too short a notice |
Last month, local community event organizers in Seattle received news that could have rained on their parades and festivities.
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| Phinney Center scores big with World Cup soccer fans |
One hundred fifty pairs of eyes were glued to a large screen at the Phinney Neighborhood Center in anticipation of the United States’ first World Cup match late Saturday morning, June 12.
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| Viaduct to U-Village to close for rebuild |
The Northeast 45th Street viaduct (which connects the University District to the University Village area) is scheduled to close to vehicular, bike and pedestrian traffic for 80 days beginning June 14, the Monday after the University of Washington’s commencement program. It will reopen on Sept. 10, just before the first University of Washington home football game. Thursday, June 03, 2010
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| Northgate fourth-graders taken out to the ball game |
With his class of fourth-graders hard at work in preparation for the upcoming MSP test, Northgate Elementary School teacher Zac Stowell wanted to do something for his students that would both motivate and reward them. Thursday, June 03, 2010
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