In the late ‘60s Madison Park was mostly renters and singles. Weekdays were quiet, but on weekends the taverns were jam-packed with party-happy regulars. Along came the invention of a wee party boat named The Gus Arno. It was to be a surreal way to over-fun and provide the revelers a new name to fame.
The Central Area Senior Center will host a community meeting to discuss its potential acquisition of the city property in which it operates 6-8 p.m. Monday, April 15.
Seattle Ethics and Elections Commission executive director Wayne Barnett has dismissed two ethics complaints filed against City Councilmember Kshama Sawant.
Gunna Covert spent a decade working with Ward Fuentes and Eric Weir at Marco in Two Union Square. That was 20 years ago. “We kind of all went our separate ways,” Covert said, “and now we’re all three of us partnering together for this.”
It is feasible to preserve the Montlake Market and still reconfigure Montlake Boulevard during the next phase of the SR 520 Bridge Replacement and HOV Program, but it will add millions to the project. Whether public opinion captured in a community survey conducted by WSDOT will sway the transportation department or fuel another push in Olympia to spare the neighborhood market from the wrecking ball remains to be seen.
A 33-year-old man who had been a guest of Bailey-Boushay House’s emergency shelter is facing assault and malicious mischief charges after allegedly smashing several windows at the facility, smashing computers and striking staff when he was asked to leave on March 19.
Tom Skerritt is best known for his roles in such critically acclaimed Hollywood films as “Steel Magnolias,” “Alien,” "A River Runs Through It," “Top Gun” and “M*A*S*H.” But America has lost its imagination, he says, and that has meant many great stories just aren’t being told.
Madison Park is one of several Seattle neighborhoods with an emergency communications hub, which is great for sharing information and connecting people with resources after a major disaster. But if the neighborhood is cut off from the rest of the city by a major earthquake, it will be up to residents to support each other for weeks and possibly months before outside help arrives.
It will still be some time before arborists have a full assessment of the damage caused to the trees and plant collection within the Washington State Arboretum during February’s major snowstorms and freezing temps.
After years on pause, the East Prospect street end in Madison Park is going to get some TLC. “We are really proceeding with developing the planting plan for the East Prospect street end,” said resident Gene Brandzel, who has been leading efforts to make shoreline street-end improvements in Madison Park for many years.
People living in Madrona had for years wondered where the blue heeler they saw running wild near the woods around the neighborhood had come from. It was sweet, but never let anyone near, and its early morning barking rattled more than a few residents. Seven years after Bonnie ran away from her owners, that mystery is solved and the dog is back home.
After four rounds of critical review of the Midtown Center superblock redevelopment, Lake Union Partners received the green light on Wednesday to proceed with the master use permit process.
The architecture team behind the major redevelopment of the Central District’s Midtown Center will once again attempt to push its art-centric design past the finish line next week.
After successfully backing Jenny Durkan’s first mayoral bid and fighting last year’s head tax that would have impacted more than 300 big businesses in the city, the Seattle Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce’s political action committee is in the early stage of identifying council candidates that have plans for fixing Seattle’s biggest issues with existing revenue.
Seattle City Council District 3 candidate Logan Bowers has filed an ethics complaint against incumbent Councilmember Kshama Sawant based on an SCC Insight article regarding her working relationship with the Socialist Alternative party.
