Friday, March 14, 2025

Eastside

ROAD CLOSURE ALERT: Seattle City Light work to close section of Marine View Drive for more than a week

Received from Seattle City Light, as its year-and-a-half-plus project in South Arbor Heights/The Arroyos continues: During the week of June 18, Seattle City Light crews will be working at the intersection of 39th Avenue SW and Marine View Drive SW...

Registration time! 2018 West Seattle Car Show plan revs up – 4 ways to be part of it

(WSB photo, 2017 West Seattle Car Show) Registration is now open for the 11th annual West Seattle Car Show – and we have some details you might be interested in even if you don’t plan to show off a vehicle. West...

TRAFFIC ALERT: Highway 509 gunfire investigation

(Added: State Patrol photo) 2:29 PM: Thanks for the tip about a Highway 509 closure – south of here but just in case you’re headed that way: WSDOT says it’s closed in both directions near Sea-Tac; if you’re headed southbound,...

‘Robust traffic component’ added to police’s Alki summer plan, residents told

By Tracy Record West Seattle Blog editor Key Southwest Precinct leadership outlined the “Alki summer-emphasis plan” to a roomful of residents last night. Along with precinct commander Capt. Pierre Davis and Lt. Steve Strand (soon to be the precinct’s second-in-command), Community Police...

We are building a backyard cottage, and city rules make no sense + Hearing Thursday

Home sweet home. Our daughter Fiona will not have a closet in her room growing up because city rules for building backyard cottages require us to build an extra car parking space for a car we don’t own. Debates over building...

FOLLOWUP: Fact-finding visit in advance of mayor’s now-postponed Highland Park visit

(WSB photos. Foreground from left, HPAC vice chair Gunner Scott, mayor’s rep Kyla Blair, HPIC board member Kay Kirkpatrick, pas HPAC co-chair Michele Witzki, HPAC chair Charlie Omana, Dutchboy Coffee’s Jenni Watkins) Mayor Jenny Durkan‘s promised visit to Highland Park...

DEVELOPMENT: It’s all about the rowhouses – including a project inspired by tiny houses

Two rowhouse reports today: PIGEON POINT PROJECT: The eight-unit rowhouse project on the former City Light substation site at 21st/Andover has taken shape in an eye-catching way. An inquiry into a neighbor’s question led us to look more closely at...

Seen under the bridge: Harbor/Spokane work begins; new signal-box art appears

Seen on our way back from low-low tide photos: HARBOR/SPOKANE WORK BEGINS: As previewed earlier this week, work is now under way on the Harbor/Spokane project. That lane – westbound Spokane to north/westbound Harbor – will be kept open during...

HAPPENING NOW: Low-low tide on West Seattle beaches

12:15 PM: Our photo is from Duwamish Head, where low-low tides like today (-3.5 feet about 15 minutes ago, -3.7 at 12:42 pm tomorrow) reveal hints of West Seattle history, like the site of the Luna Park amusement park,...

West Seattle Art Walk, student films, airport meeting, and more for your Thursday

(Great Blue Heron, photographed by Mark Wangerin) From the WSB West Seattle Event Calendar: REALLY LOW LOW TIDE: Out VERY far today – to -3.5 feet at 11:55 am. Seattle Aquarium volunteer beach naturalists are out again at Constellation Park (63rd...
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