That’s one alternative for 4435 35th SW (map) - the proposed 100+-unit residential/12,000-sf commercial project on the Redline-and-south site - shown for the first time at Thursday night’s Southwest Design Review Board meeting, but not in the online packet. It’s the one that won the most attention [...]
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The Seattle School Board has finally voted late tonight on the attendance maps that are a key component of the new Student Assignment Plan, and for West Seattle, it went along the path that local board rep Steve Sundquist had outlined at his meeting this morning (WSB coverage here) [...]
By Tracy Record
West Seattle Blog editor
With hours to go until the Seattle School Board votes on attendance-area maps as part of its new neighborhood-based Student Assignment Plan, West Seattle’s board rep laid his cards on the table during a meeting this morning at Delridge [...]
From Nina Chambers at Madison Middle School - they want to make sure everyone’s heard about this honor they received this fall:
Madison Middle School scores 2 years running as School of Distinction! Madison Middle School is one of “10 [district] schools … recognized by [...]
SCHOOLS: 10 am, Steve Sundquist, West Seattle’s rep on the school board, is at Delridge Library for a community chat bound to be dominated by the proposed school-attendance maps the board will vote on tonight (6 pm, district HQ in SODO).
WATER: Could reclaimed wastewater mean a brighter future [...]
As promised when a team from Seattle Fire Department Station 11 (map) visited last month’s Highland Park Action Committee meeting (WSB coverage here), HPAC put together a delegation to bring the station a home-cooked dinner tonight, and we dropped by to catch the good [...]
We can vote early and often for our favorite bike trails in this election.
A few weeks ago Google Maps sought nominations for off-road photographic visits by its Street Views trike.
After receiving 25,000 ideas, the Google Maps staff came up with 24 finalists (trails in blue on map). They're asking' [...]
Also from last night’s Junction Neighborhood Organization meeting: There’s more to the future of The Junction than the big issues of big development projects - it’s also about the details: How will landscaping, sidewalks, streets be improved? That was the crux of the discussion with Junction-based [...]
This happened near WSB contributing journalist Christopher Boffoli’s neighborhood on the east side of The Junction late Tuesday night, so he checked out the sizable police response after a resident in the 4500 block of 41st SW (map) reported an intruder at a neighbor’s home - a [...]
By Tracy Record
West Seattle Blog editor
“You’re taking something that’s actually working and breaking it.”
That critique of the latest proposed Seattle Public Schools attendance-area maps came from one of the two dozen-plus people who attended School Board rep Steve Sundquist’s community meeting Saturday afternoon at High [...]
Last night, we reported on another holdup at Tervo’s Mini-Mart in The Triangle. Today, thanks to a Twitter tip, we learned there was a second convenience-store robbery in West Seattle last night - Delridge Deli Mart (map) also was held up. Official police information may be [...]
Tomorrow afternoon, when West Seattle’s School Board rep Steve Sundquist hosts a community chat at High Point Library (1-2:30 pm), a group plans to bring that graphic to his attention. It’s a mashup of Seattle Public Schools‘ newly revised attendance-area maps for West Seattle with data from [...]
Unfolding on multiple citywide-media outlets right now - what KING5 calls a “massive response” at a complex in Tukwila where a shooting happened and may be related to some kind of a break in the Officer Tim Brenton murder - less than two hours after his [...]
If you commute by bus, you know how frustrating things were during last year’s snow woes - from stuck buses, to buses that never came at all, to a shortage of route-specific, time-specific information directly from Metro - which led to bus riders sharing firsthand information here [...]
(scroll down to see added info, video and links)
(Photo by Christopher Boffoli)
The Seattle Times (WSB partner) has a map with a timeline pointing to multimedia coverage of the procession that’s been under way for more than an hour; see it here. Meantime, we are adding photos [...]
(photo substituted 7:32 am, this one’s by Christopher Boffoli)
We’re on our way to the “fire in single-family residence” call in the 4400 block of 45th SW (map). 7:05 AM: Per the scanner, the fire’s been “knocked down,” and firefighters are checking to make sure it didn’t [...]
View Brenton Memorial Procession in a larger map
(thanks to Justin from Capitol Hill Seattle for making the G-map)
It won’t go through West Seattle, but it may pass near your workplace, or you might want to arrange to see it go by, so we are publishing the [...]
NORTH DELRIDGE NEIGHBORHOOD COUNCIL: 6:30 tonight, Delridge Library (map). Holli Margell sends word of what’s in store:
Want to cast another vote? Join us (tonight). We’ll be reviewing the “Bridging the Gap” Projects for the neighborhood to prioritize and narrow down the list for submission. Also on the agenda [...]
Tim Eyman's government limiting I-1033, Nov. 2009
Tim Eyman's government limiting I-960, Nov. 2007
I’m going to spend a lot of time over the next few days talking about trends, and what that predicts for the handful of close races in today’s election, but the maps [...]
That dropbox outside the Delridge Neighborhood Service Center at 5405 Delridge (map) is the one place in West Seattle you can take your ballot all the way up till 8 tonight. If you get there before 7, go inside for the Voters’ Open House and meet [...]
After the original proposed maps for individual schools’ new “attendance areas” came out a month ago, Seattle Public Schools acknowledged a few errors - including different attendance boundaries for Denny International Middle School and Chief Sealth High School, which will share a campus within two years. So [...]
All three of these are coming up this Saturday:
View Green Seattle Day 2009 in a larger map
First, that Google Map from greenseattle.org shows the West Seattle spots where you can join in GREEN SEATTLE DAY - which means special Saturday work parties in parks and green [...]
A bit of a lull as we get ready to cover the next wave of major news later today - revised school-attendance maps (4 pm), election results (8 pm) — so if you’re looking for something new to read, check out the WSB Forums for community-powered items including:
Two school-related notes for today/tonight: First, 4 weeks after Seattle Public Schools released proposed attendance-boundary maps and then revealed the West Seattle maps had a major error, revised maps are scheduled to go public during a School Board work session that starts at 4 pm at district HQ [...]
A new project has just appeared on the city’s “upcoming Design Review” schedule — a Southwest Design Review Board meeting November 19th to look at a proposal for 4435 35th SW (map). According to what’s on the city website, this would be a [...]
Thanks to Keri for sharing a shot of the “pirate ship” that will be the main set of Skeleton Theatre again this year, tonight and tomorrow night, 6-9 pm at 36th/Hanford (directions & map) - West Seattle’s one and only animatronic Halloween extravaganza (2008 coverage [...]
Bicyclists in Seattle should feel fortunate that the creators of Ride the City chose their town as the latest addition to the online bike-route mapping tool.
Since launching the website for New York City last year, Vaidila Kungys and Jordan Anderson have added Chicago, Austin, Louisville, San Diego and now Seattle to [...]
