Seattle Times girls coach of the year Karen Blair quit her post at Ballard High after a historic season, finishing fourth in the state’s Class 4A division. She said she’s quitting over “an equity” issue — the girls team does not have a team room like the boys. “They told me three days before the …
Joseph Skillings’ second and third grade class at Adams Elementary is presenting two performances of Midsummer’s Night Dream, tonight at 7 p.m. and tomorrow at 2 p.m. “The children hope Mr. Skillings will feel up to attending,” writes Seattle Daily Photo. Skillings is still recovering from a brutal attack at a Capitol Hill bus stop. …
If you have thoughts on how to keep open space and breathing room a part of the community, the non-profit parks and open space advocacy organization Groundswell NW wants you at their annual meeting, 7 p.m., Tuesday, March 11 at Loyal Heights Community Center, 2101 NW 77th St. Seattle Mayor Greg Nickels is the featured guest too. …
Everyone raves about Café Besalu pastries. “It is like catnip; it goes right to my brain and makes me feel giddy and unreasonably unhappy,” writes Peggy Sturdivant in her blog, At Large in Ballard. Well, Besalu’s pastry chef James Miller is now a semifinalist for a James Beard award as the best pastry chef in …
Peter Charbonnier posted this photo in the Ballard Flickr pool (more here)… He says it was a big white house at the corner of 9th and 50th. “But fear not older homes, for in your place there will spring 8 new luxurious townhomes with granite countertops, Brazilian Cherry floors and stainless steel appliances.”
Sounds like a pretty good deal, huh? Too good of a deal. A posting on Craigslist from “Rev. Robin Beaty” of West Africa says you can rent this Ballard home for just $900 a month. Just send him the cash and he’ll mail you the keys. “Perhaps the reverend is aware that a 30 year …
The new Vietnamese restaurant Monkey Bridge has just opened its doors, and the Ballard Gossip Girl has the scoop. “The decor and the staff were both welcoming and the couple of dishes we tried were very flavorful,” she writes. “Their dinner special entrees featured salmon and sea bass and looked like they’d be worth a …
I didn’t know that popular local artist Alden Mason, 88, lives in the Locke Vista apartments right here in Ballard. (Now that I think about it, I remember the stories about him not wanting to move out.) Anyway, Mason opens tonight in two Pioneer Square galleries: Foster/White and Greg Kucera. “I’ve always had a place …
You know that old, rusted arrow with the burned out bulbs that hung next to the Olympic Athletic Club on Ballard Avenue? Someone ripped it off, said Mark Durall, the club’s general manager. “It was 50 years old, and that’s what really irks me,” Durall said. “Whoever did this had to have a ladder and …
We’ve seen all three names to designate the neighborhood between Ballard and Fremont, and we’re thoroughly confused. Can anyone help? Let’s air out the evidence and get this settled once and for all…
Matthew Scott Korpinen, 38, was the transient who was killed early Sunday. Prosecutors are expected to file charges against a 53-year-old homeless man in Korpinen’s death sometime today. Update: Prosecutors have filed charges against John Dwyer in the murder. If convicted as charged, the sentence range is 15 to 24 years in prison.
A chain link fence has been put up around the Denny’s building and the parking lot nearby. Probably for safety and insurance reasons, as we’ve seen some homeless folks behind the building from time to time. By the way, we’re keeping in contact with both the property owners and community organizers, so stay tuned to …