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Valley to welcome new streatery

Nine streateries and three new parklets, all sponsored by community and business groups, are coming to Seattle, including one in Madison Valley.

A CITY ON A HILL | Sell me some peanuts and Cracker Jack (and beer)

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.

Lumpkin named state lacrosse player of week

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 yard sale on May 9

McGilvra Elementary School will have its end-of-school-year yard sale on Saturday, May 9.

MLK alumni to receive scholarships

The Martin Luther King School Dream Foundation will award its scholarships during its banquet on May 18.

State says standardized testing to get smarter with new test

This spring, students in Seattle Public Schools, as well as in districts across the state, will take a new test, the Smarter Balanced assessment.

For whom the roads toll — just about everyone

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.

Metro, communities gear up for more route changes

After months of receiving feedback from neighborhoods around the city, Metro Transit will publicize new revisions to its proposed bus changes.

COMMUNITY CORNER | May 2015

Bob Santos will be the featured speaker at the Leschi Community Council (LCC) meeting on Wednesday, May 6.

POLICE NOTES | May 2015

The following are selected reports from the Seattle Police Department. They represent the officers’ accounts of the events described.

EDITORIAL | Not winning any votes

Kshama Sawant’s recent behavior can’t be winning any votes for her City Council campaign.

EDITORIAL | May Day messages lost in riots

All Seattleites know that May Day demonstrations can get a little rowdy, and this year’s were no exception.

EB SR 520 to close overnight Monday

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.

Montlake Bridge to close for opening day

The Montlake Bridge will close to vehicle and foot traffic on Saturday, May 2, for the opening day of Seattle’s boating season.

EDITORIAL | The lesson in politics

It says something when more than 4,000 educators and their supporters rallied outside an empty Capitol building in Olympia last Saturday, April 25, to protest legislators who have yet to fully fund education.

EDITORIAL | Welcoming this war on drugs

Within days after the city introduced its new “9 1/2 Block Strategy” to combat illegal activity in the main downtown retail and business core, more than 100 people were arrested for selling various kinds of drugs.

Local homes featured on NW Green Home Tour

Forty homeowners in the Greater Seattle area are inviting the public into their new, remodeled or energy-retrofitted homes this weekend for the fifth-annual Northwest Green Home Tour.

Modern Home Tour highlights six Seattle homes

The Modern Home Tour returns to Seattle for a fourth year on May 2 to give people a chance to explore and view some examples of modern architecture via self-guided driving tour.

EDITORIAL | The council’s short-term vision

After Seattle City Councilmember Sally Clark announced that she was leaving her term early to take a job with the University of Washington, 44 applications spilled in to fill her position for the remainder of the year.