King County Metro Transit bus routes will operate with a Sunday schedule Friday, July 4, for Independence Day, and many routes will be redirected around community celebrations in the county.
Seattle Parks and Recreation will turn on field lighting on synthetic ballfields throughout the city on the evenings of Thursday, July 3, and Friday, July 4, to protect the synthetic surfaces. This is to discourage the use of fireworks.
Join Seattle Parks and Recreation for its annual Big Day of Play from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Sunday, June 29, to showcase what the department and other community organizations are offering in the way of fun activities and healthy food.
Seattle City Councilmember Tom Rasmussen, chair of the Seattle Transportation Benefit District board, has announced that a public hearing will take place tonight to take resident feedback on transit service in Seattle.
At age 75, Gabriel Szabados had been living comfortably in the Oda Apartments for 15 years. That is until he received a notice on Feb. 27 that in 60 days his rent would increase to $1,550. Szabados decided to move.
The Seattle Tennis Club has completed its major renovation. The project included replacing the pro shop and upgrades to the indoor court building and the north lawn to improve accessibility, enhance the shoreline and refurbish the 50-year-old facilities.
Illustrations of the new design for the Triangle Project for East Madison Street and Martin Luther King Jr. Way East are available on madisonvalley.org, the website for the Madison Valley Community Council.
Festivals and the like are typically regarded as events that unite the community through fair food, music, art, sports and an overall good time. But what about the people who live right by all the commotion?
Restaurant Hospitality, an industry newsletter, has announced the winners of its annual sandwich competition, and the winner in the meatloaf category is Bing’s (4200 E. Madison St.).
It’s been a hugely busy month on the local political scene. But lost in the blizzard of headlines was the truly remarkable lawsuit filed on May 28 by more than 100 rank-and-file Seattle Police Department (SPD) officers.
During the short, hectic days of affirmative action, one of the core Republican talking points was how hardworking middle Americans (catchphrase for “white people”) are paying their taxes and the poor, inner-city people were just living off of them.
