Nearly three decades ago, 15-year-old Sara Beth Lundquist got off a bus at 85th St. and 24th Ave. to walk home after watching a movie with a friend. She was kidnapped, raped and murdered. The case had been unsolved until recently, when DNA tests tied Clarence Williams to the killing. Williams had been serving time …
Say it isn’t so! The restaurant with the most health and safety violations in Seattle is… Zesto’s, probably our favorite Ballard burger joint. The Seattle PI looked over the records and found 15 “red critical” violations in 2007 including “poor worker hygiene, failure to properly sanitize the food-preparation area and cold food stored at more …
This billboard on 15th Ave. and 63rd is getting a lot of second looks. Any ideas on who may have put it up?
It was the clash of the unbeatens in girls basketball last night, but Ballard High obliterated Roosevelt, 50-26. Jeanette Hansen, a 6-foot-5 foreign exchange student from Denmark (Ballard’s secret weapon), scored 10 points. “It was really big,” she told the Seattle Times. “A lot of people didn’t think we could beat Roosevelt, but we beat them …
Some of Ballard’s most interesting news comes from the Ballard paper’s “cops” page. For example, this week we have a woman driving a 2002 Audi who admits she “may” have cut off an elderly woman in a wheelchair trying to cross the street. So what’s the elderly woman do? She throws a rock and hits …
The old Denny’s restaurant on 15th and Market has been boarded up for months as a battle heats up over whether it’s a Seattle landmark. On January 2nd, the Landmark Preservation Board will hold a nomination hearing, and a decision could follow within a matter of weeks. If it doesn’t qualify for landmark status, it …
Ballard and Kenmore were the first two neighborhoods in the Seattle area to offer biodiesel pumping stations. And now the same company, Propel Biofuels, plans to open a “flagship” station at Westlake and Valley Street in South Lake Union. Ballard’s station opened in October at Bernie’s Automotive on Leary. And by the way, we just …
To all you Scandanavians out there, Happy Lucia Day — a day to remember St. Lucia (also known as St. Lucy), the Queen of Lights. For generations Swedes have honored the young Christian martyr who legend says lived a very rough life. Today, Swedish communities each have a Lucia Bride to represent the saint. The …
According to Yelp, it’s Cafe Besalu, of course. “I honestly think that Besalu serves the best pastries in the world,” gushes one reviewer. “You feel like you’ve been swept away to a Parisian bakery,” writes another. “They are the nicest people in the city possibly,” says a third. Mmmm, I feel a craving for a …
This Friday, the annual Christmas Ship pulls up to Golden Gardens to spread its holiday cheer from 9:05 to 9:25 p.m. Of course, getting to the park is still a bit of a pain with that washout on Golden Gardens Drive, just west of View Ave.
I hit one of those potholes on 14th the other day and thought the transmission dropped out of my Saab. Well, not quite that bad, but it woke me up. Tomas Krynsky asked the SeattlePI why the Seattle transportation folks haven’t patched it up. “(It) would certainly benefit from rehabilitation,” admits Charles Bookman, Seattle’s street …
The now-closed QFC store on 24th Ave. will be demolished later this month, reports the Ballard News-Tribune. An eight-story apartment building called “Ballard on the Park” will be built in its place, along with a bigger QFC that’s slated to open in late 2009. Lead architect Mark Simpson (who’s a 25-year Ballard resident) says he’ll stick with a simple …