Thanksgiving is crossed off the to do list and you've increased your exercise routine and now preparations are being made for the Christmas season. You are going through your list and checking it twice to see who has been naughty or nice.
The guest list is written out and who'll bring what to the many holiday gatherings. Here's a little food for thought.
Finally, the two cities of Seattle and Burien have reached a preliminary agreement to the proposed annexation of the unincorporated area of North Highline.
The parties involved in the mediation talks include the cities of Burien and Seattle, King County and Fire District 2 and 11.
The city councils and fire district commissioners will have to ratify the agreement. Burien is expected to do that Dec. 15, said Burien City Manager Mike Martin.
The basics of the agreement are as follows.
1.
This gift-giving season is suddenly done-gone-green hasn't it?
Are you wondering how to go about getting a little green into your life, without spending a lot of green? Here are some ideas to help you get started viva la vida verde (living the green life.)
First idea: Think small. Get a small plant to live by your phone. You can grow it on for years to come, it is easier on the pocketbook, and it is right beside the phone so you can never forget about it. Whenever you make or answer a call, you'll see your darling, new friend and tend to it.
To the relief of thr Arbor Heights community, the local school was not included in Superintendent Marie Goodloe-Johnson?s most recent recommendations regarding school closures across the district.
The district had recommended on Nov. 25 that the Arbor Heights program close and Pathfinder K-8, an alternative school, move into the building. But on Dec.
A narrowed set of hybrid scenarios for replacing the Alaskan Way Viaduct will be presented for comment at an open forum Dec. 16.
From the eight scenarios studied for the last six months, the most promising building blocks will be reassembled into two or three "hybrid" scenarios for evaluation, and for comment from the public, 5 to 7:30 p.m., Tuesday, Dec. 16 at Town Hall, 1119 Eighth Ave.
Waterfront businesses could lose $65 million of value during construction of the replacement to the viaduct, but may gain up to $250 million in increased property values, according to a study presented to the Alaskan Way Viaduct Stakeholders Advisory Committee Dec.
Meet Virginia Pearce
Virginia is the owner and operator of Burien Books.
She holds the distinctive title as downtown Burien's most enduring business under one owner.
Finally, the two cities of Seattle and Burien have reached a preliminary agreement to the proposed annexation of the unincorporated area of North Highline.
The parties involved in the mediation talks include the cities of Burien and Seattle, King County and Fire District 2 and 11.
The basics of the agreement are as follows.
1. All parties support the transition of the unincorporated North Highline to city status in a timely manner that will increase existing local service levels.
2.
This year Americans will go to the polls to cast their votes for the most important offices in the land and in West Seattle we asked our readers to do the same. In past years, the West Seattle Herald's readers poll has been popular, but this year the response both online and in physical votes was overwhelming...IN THE THOUSANDS!
We figure everyone was fired up for Nov.
Now I wasn't to be outdone by the super malls and markets jumping the gun on the holidays by lighting up even before Thanksgiving. So I went to my closet of supposedly out-of-season clothes and pulled out that red knit top with the snow people on it. Then I added the white knit hat that a friend traded me for my first book and added my large snowflake earrings.
Funny things happen when going out of the house in festive apparel. I even dared to buy gasoline for our gas guzzler. "Here's $20 on number 5," I told the pump attendant as cocky as a gambler in Las Vegas.
