The Port Commission has directed Port staff to take action on a series of steps designed to demonstrate the Port's role as a leader in environmental stewardship and remediation.
"The Commission is committed to a strong and vibrant maritime industrial economy," said Commission President John Creighton.
This is the incomplete story of one particular house in Ballard. It's a house that was built in 1926, located on a cul-de-sac near 24th Northwest at one end and a park at another. It's a two-story home that owners described as having a "huge amount of room." Room enough for a ping-pong table in the laundry room when their children were teenagers, a two-car garage, a basement workshop. "More house than you ever suspected from the outside," is how an owner described it.
A couple raised three children in this house, replacing the windows and the roof, taking good care of the garden and their neighbors. But when their children left home, the house was too big. After 27 years the couple carefully prepared the house for sale, painted every room and put it on the market. Just the husband was present for the signing of final papers; his wife was grocery shopping. It was October 2006 and the five-bedroom house had sold for $545,000.
Search for burgers of note
By Patricia Devine and Jim Anderson
Talk to anybody in Ballard, and they'll tell you all about their favorite burger joint. Everyone's got an opinion, and the loyalty can run deep. As we waded into the vast world of Ballard burgers, our original goal of crowning Ballard's best burger evolved into a more modest "Ballard Burgers of Note" approach.
We narrowed down the many Ballard choices using proven scientific principles of food reviewing.
This was once wilderness
By Kay F. Reinartz
It is hard for us living in Ballard today to imagine the density of the forest that covered our town before its settlement by the Euro-American pioneers. As you walk the streets of our early 21st century Ballard this week, in your imagination replace the houses and brick and stone commercial buildings lining straight streets with trees and a veritable jungle of underbrush.
A sailboat moves by, framed in the launching rigging near Ray's Boat House. Amber Trillo photo.
In early 2006 I commissioned a survey of Seattle Police Officers from David Brody, Washington State University Spokane criminal justice program coordinator and Nicholas Lovrich, director, Washington State University Division of Governmental Studies and Services of Washington State University.
In looking for a professional consultant with police survey experience, I found that while police officer opinion surveys are common, less than half a dozen in the nation have focused on their attitudes toward civilian oversight.
While the city conducts citizen surveys of perceptions
The new Crown Hill Neighborhood Association is gearing up to tackle some of the biggest issues in the community, from the future of an old school building to the unwanted Safeway discount gas station.
The group aims to build a unified voice in a neighborhood where residents are often detached from each other, said Molly Hanson, president of the group.
One of its biggest goals is to find a way to purchase the old Crown Hill School, preserve its current services and create a community center for the neighborhood.
"There's a disconnect here - there's no center," H
The city of Seattle's Bicycle Master Plan includes an extension of the Burke Gilman Trail, scheduled to start this summer, and construction of several miles of bike lanes in Ballard during the next 10 years.
The completion of the popular trail, better access to the Ballard and Fremont bridges and improved east/west routes between Ballard and Fremont were identified by the community as the most critical bicycle facility issues in Ballard.
The city hopes the plan will increase all trip uses of bicycling in Seattle and improve the safety of riding a bike with traffic.
Ole the famous troll of Market Street is retiring and so is owner Solveig Hatley who has run the Scandinavian Gift Shop since 1981.
"I will take life easy and travel. I'm going to Norway in July. I will miss it (the store) very much," Solveig said.
Son Steve Hatley said the family was trying to decide what to do with Ole the famous troll, which has stood on Market Street for the last 10 years.
HB 1128 Making operating appropriations for 2007-2009. By a vote of 31 to 17, on April 22, the Senate approved HB 1128. By a vote of 60 to 36, also on April 22, the House approved HB 1128, which would make appropriations to the 2007-09 state operating budget. The operating budget is one of three budgets approved by the Legislature each year. These appropriations pay for general state services such as state employee salaries, basic education, and social services. The bill is now under consideration by the governor.
Sen. Jeanne Kohl-Welles; Reps.
