A Police Memorial Cermony will be held at Forest Lawn Funeral Home and Cemetery, starting at 12:00 Noon, May 4th. The Ceremony is designed to honor police officers who have served our community and have fallen in the line of duty. Reception to…MORE
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Authorities responding to oil spill south of Des Moines
Fri, 04/30/10
The state Department of Ecology, U.S. Coast Guard and South King Fire & Rescue are responding to a diesel fuel spill leaking into a small creek at Dash Point State Park that empties to south Puget Sound.
The site is just south of Des…MORE
SLIDESHOW: Northwest Hope & Healing fashion show, West Seattle merchants, offered panache & runway excitement
Fri, 04/30/10
Northwest Hope & Healing presented the 8th Annual Spring Fashion Show and auction called “Style ’10” at the Showbox SODO Thursday night, April 29 to benefit breast cancer patients. The packed house feasted their eyes on fashions from Seattle…MORE
UPDATE: LaFarge Cement forced to make changes to its Seattle plant
Fri, 04/30/10
Due to market conditions and a changing regulatory environment, Lafarge North America announced on April 29, 2010, that it will cease clinker production at its Seattle Cement plant at the end of 2010 and put the kiln in a care and maintain mode…MORE
City's RainWise program begins May in Ballard
Fri, 04/30/10
Seattle Public Utilities is starting its RainWise program in Ballard in May. As part of the program, 3,000 Ballardites are eligible for a rebate for construction of a rain garden or cistern on their property to help control storm water runoff.…MORE
Dampening components installed at Ballard on the Park
Thu, 04/29/10
Visual and audio dampening components were installed on the roof of the Ballard on the Park/QFC development April 29 in an attempt to make the rooftop HVAC (heating, ventilating and air conditioning) units less audibly and visibly noticeable from…MORE
City presents scheme for Crown Hill Elementary Park
Thu, 04/29/10
After a four-year hiatus, the Seattle Parks and Recreation project team and the Crown Hill community reassembled April 28 to discuss the design for the renovated Crown Hill Elementary Park in the project's first public meeting since 2006.
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SLIDESHOW: Jazz musicians play an 'Informance' at Sealth High School
Wed, 04/28/10
Chief Sealth High School’s auditorium became hip and hopping as members of the Thelonius Monk Institute of Jazz visited, including six musicians from Los Angeles County High School for the Arts, or the “LACHSA “ Jazz Sextet performed Satin Doll…MORE
UPDATE: KCDOT on the hot seat for South Park Bridge closure
Wed, 04/28/10
Goldman Sachs execs were on the hot seat Tuesday April 27, and just a few hours later, and a lot closer to home, King County Department of Transportation Director Harold Taniguchi was on the hot seat at the standing-room only South Park Bridge…MORE
Christopher Williams named Acting Parks Superintendent
Wed, 04/28/10
Mayor Mike McGinn today named Christopher Williams as Acting Superintendent of Seattle Parks and Recreation, following the resignation on Monday of Superintendent Timothy Gallagher.
Williams, a Parks and Recreation employee for nearly 20…MORE
