Your local bookstore is one of the few places you can visit to find something for literally everyone on your holiday shopping list, even the one’s who aren’t avid readers.
It’s time Seattle officials got serious about finding transportation solutions that don’t just involve dedicated bike lanes taking up valuable real estate on roadways.
Perhaps it was low expectations and the sugary beverage I drank in the theater, but I found Will Gluck’s glossy, modernized film remake of the famous Broadway musical “Annie” to be perfectly decent.
McGilvra Elementary School (1617 38th Ave. E.) will hold three tours this school year for prospective families. These tours will take place Friday, Dec. 12; Jan. 16; and May 1.
Seattle Girls’ School (2706 S. Jackson St.) will have an open house for prospective students and their parents on Saturday, Dec. 13, from 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
Singers, music lovers and holiday revelers are invited to join the Garfield Symphony Orchestra (GSO) in a performance of Georg Handel’s beloved “Messiah” at 7:30 p.m. on Friday, Dec. 12, at Seattle First Baptist Church.
The recent anti-police-brutality protests around the country and here in Seattle have demonstrated that something needs to be done to give people a clearer sense of what happens during incidents when police officers kill possible suspects in the line of duty.
Woodland Park Zoo’s Draft Annual Plan for 2015 is available to the public for comments through Dec. 31. The Annual Plan describes any programmatic changes, capital improvements or other key developments for the coming year.
The activists are right to ask for help from city leaders. Now is the time for us all to thank the elephants for their years at WPZ by funding a retirement — in a sanctuary — that they can really enjoy.
Over the weekend, it was revealed that the Seattle School Board may offer interim Seattle Public Schools (SPS) Superintendent Larry Nyland the permanent position
The Leschi Community Council will host a Holiday Open House on Wednesday, Dec. 3, from 7 to 9 p.m., at the Central Area Senior Center (500 30th Ave. S.).
King County Metro Transit will operate on Sunday and reduced weekday schedules over the Thanksgiving holiday and during several holiday periods through January, including a full week of reduced service at the end of December.
When it snows, Seattle can shut down, especially in neighborhoods that are particularly hilly. In Madison Park, residents created a program to help their stranded neighbors in need, called the Snow Brigade.
The most important election result for Seattleites this month wasn’t passage of a pilot program for universal preschool. And it wasn’t the end of Elizabeth Campbell’s monorail fantasy.
We’re now just one year from electing seven councilmembers under the new district election system overwhelmingly approved by voters in 2013.
