Some will remember having tonsils and adenoids taken out in the olden days. “All the ice cream you can eat,” our parents promised. Who wouldn’t sign up for that?
If you don’t remember voting for him...well, you didn’t.
The recent column “But It’s for the Kids,” by Geov Parrish, is rife with inaccuracies and misleading statements about the content and intent of the Seattle Preschool Program.
To be an effective organizer in the American African community you must be a racial historian.
I don’t know about you, but some days I feel as if change is happening too fast. Almost overnight, Seattle’s painfully slow housing recovery morphed into a red-hot housing shortage.
Summer is filled with parties, gatherings, picnics and more. We all want to make these occasions special and memorable for our guests. Unfortunately, nature does not always cooperate.
Summertime is just around the corner, which inspires many Seattleites to hit the road for a glorious local getaway. It’s important to keep in mind a few ways to stay safe and healthy on the road.
The debate over which pet is better, dogs or cats, has been a longstanding one.
The community is invited to provide input on Fitness Zones coming to one of four Seattle neighborhoods, including Leschi.
Yelp is 10 years old — the scourge of the Internet, one of the most feared institutions of modern life. But the best advocate for a kinder, gentler Yelp is available to all with a cheerful smile, for free: the local “Community Engagement” manager.
In recent years, arts education funding has been cut from Seattle Public Schools (SPS). But the City of Seattle is doing something about it.
The Bertschi School in Capitol Hill has chosen Rafael del Castillo as its next head of school beginning in July 2016.
The five contenders for the District 3 City Council seat agreed on a few pressing issues at the May 12 District 3 candidates forum on Capitol Hill, but the best ways to preserve and create affordable housing was not one them.
The Madison Valley and Madison Park community council are hosting a candidate forum at The Bush School (3400 E. Harrison St.) on Monday, June 8, at 7 p.m.
Lauri Stevens tells a well-worn joke among her fellow social media advocates in the law enforcement community: that decision-makers are less afraid to give police officers guns and Tasers than to let them on Twitter.
The Seattle Japanese Garden (1075 Lake Washigton Blvd. E.) will host its annual Children’s Day event on Sunday, May 31.
Seattle usually comes to a standstill when a march — peaceful or not — is scheduled. In this case, it wasn’t downtown but Port of Seattle business that was affected.
Hundreds of veterans, their families and the public will gather for Evergreen-Washelli’s 89th-annual Memorial Day service on Monday, May 25.
Many Seattle Parks and Recreation facilities will close Monday, May 25, in observance of Memorial Day.
Not a lot of violence occurs in “Slow West”; director John Maclean keeps the focus on the characters.
A recent study from the Seattle University School of Law found that by making homelessness a crime, cities are actually costing themselves more.
“No major findings stand in the way of arena construction,” Mayor Ed Murray said of the Final Environmental Impact Statement recently released for the project — except for one glaring omission: public funding.
All lanes of eastbound state Route 520 will close overnight on Monday, May 18, between Montlake Boulevard and the highway on-ramp from Lake Washington Boulevard.
The state Route 520 eastbound on-ramp from Montlake Boulevard is currently closed and will remain closed through the evening rush hour due to nearby construction activity.
Drivers on Montlake Boulevard (state Route 513) should prepare for possible delays at the Montlake Bridge Saturday morning, May 9.
More than 40 members of the Madison Valley community and McGilvra Elementary School got together on April 25 to clean up East Madison Street.
In my three decades in the Seattle real estate industry, I cannot recall a day when just two properties were listed for the entire city.
If your relationship is heading toward joint finances, it’s essential to talk about it first — openly and honestly.
Composting food waste is an important step in reducing thE mountain of garbage that is now hauled 300 miles away for disposal in a landfill in Eastern Oregon.
When news went through school of a movie coming to the Orpheum Theatre, we counted the days. Back in the 1940s, a black-and-white movie filled us with anticipation and drowned out any negativity about world events.
Last fall, the Seattle City Council gave voters a choice between two competing ballot measures that never should have been juxtaposed.
There is always a moment when you can feel the ground shifting under your feet, when you know that things are not going to stay the way they are and change is on the horizon. That is the way that I see the change the Martin Luther King County recently made on the youth jail after young protesters disrupted meetings.
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Barrel-aged cocktails are a thing in some circles. I’m not a huge fan.
Nine streateries and three new parklets, all sponsored by community and business groups, are coming to Seattle, including one in Madison Valley.
Staging a Mariners game, Sounders FC soccer match or other major sports event requires a small army of workers, from ushers and ticket takers to standby paramedics. And among them are an unsung aspect of the teams’ charitable contributions.
Alden Lumpkin has been named the Washington state youth lacrosse “Up and Comer” player of the week by the Washington State Chapter of US Lacrosse for the week of April 20.
McGilvra Elementary School will have its end-of-school-year yard sale on Saturday, May 9.
The Martin Luther King School Dream Foundation will award its scholarships during its banquet on May 18.
This spring, students in Seattle Public Schools, as well as in districts across the state, will take a new test, the Smarter Balanced assessment.
Port of Seattle spokesperson Peter McGraw remembered how it took him more than an hour to move six city blocks after a semi-truck carrying fish overturned and blocked all southbound lanes on state Route 99 near the Alaskan Way Viaduct in March.
After months of receiving feedback from neighborhoods around the city, Metro Transit will publicize new revisions to its proposed bus changes.
Bob Santos will be the featured speaker at the Leschi Community Council (LCC) meeting on Wednesday, May 6.
The following are selected reports from the Seattle Police Department. They represent the officers’ accounts of the events described.
Kshama Sawant’s recent behavior can’t be winning any votes for her City Council campaign.
All Seattleites know that May Day demonstrations can get a little rowdy, and this year’s were no exception.
All lanes of eastbound state Route 520 will close overnight Monday, May 4, between Montlake Boulevard and the highway on-ramp from Lake Washington Boulevard.
The Montlake Bridge will close to vehicle and foot traffic on Saturday, May 2, for the opening day of Seattle’s boating season.
