Concerned business and property owners around Leary and Ballard Avenues Northwest may have won their battle with Teutsch Partners, a development firm who plans to build a 150-unit assisted living and retail development, the Ballard Landmark Inn,…MORE
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Without the monorail tax, Seattle as cheap as Burien
Wed, 11/23/05
Seattle voters' defeat of the monorail is affecting the public debate over how the North Highline area should govern itself in the future.
Without the monorail tax, the cost of being a resident of Seattle is comparable to the tax expense…MORE
Burien gynecologist guilty on four charges
Wed, 11/23/05
An obstetrician and gynecologist who practiced at clinics in Burien and Federal Way until 2003 now faces up to 23 years in prison for sexually abusing four of his patients.
Dr. Charles Momah, 49, was convicted Nov. 16 by a jury in King…MORE
City scampering to fill the gap of the monorail
Wed, 11/23/05
With monorail off Seattle's list of potential modes of mass transit, the remaining contenders to serve the western side of the city are streetcars, buses, and light rail.
Sponsored by the Sierra Club at the REI store downtown, the transit…MORE
Weddings in White Center
Wed, 11/23/05
Atop a hill on a scenic stretch of road in White Center sits a very purple and very different kind of wedding chapel.
For more than 40 years, locals and people from all over the world have come to AA Vagabond’s Enchanted Chapel to get…MORE
Junction getting Vietnamese restaurant
Tue, 11/15/05
Gchi Dang looked around the Junction and saw Japanese, Thai, Chinese and American restaurants, but no Vietnamese.
"I wanted to bring a new kind of food to the neighborhood," Dang said.
Than Brothers Restaurant opens in mid-November…MORE
Incumbents defeated
Tue, 11/15/05
The results of last week’s general election held good news for challengers and bad news for incumbents in several Highline-area city council races, especially in Burien.
Voters retired two Burien City Council members -- Mayor Noel Gibb,…MORE
City to study transit here
Tue, 11/15/05
Following last week's demise of the monorail, Mayor Greg Nickels ordered the Seattle Department of Transportation to conduct a transit study for West Seattle, Ballard and the rest of the western half of the city.
The study will compare…MORE
Monorail to sell station sites
Tue, 11/15/05
Since people voted overwhelmingly last week to derail the monorail, the only remnants of the project in West Seattle are the properties purchased to build stations.
The Seattle Monorail Project board of directors voted to liquidate the…MORE
Wishbones for everyone
Tue, 11/15/05
Thanks to Ken Ahroni, everybody can rest easy when it comes to deciding who gets to crack the wishbone this holiday season.
In fact, the West Seattle native has made it possible to rest your wishes on these bird bones every day of the year…MORE
