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day : 08/12/2006 7 results

This is sad
December 8, 2006 11:58 pm
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 |   Environment | Fauntleroy | Wildlife

The Fauntleroy Community Council reports zero coho returning to their creek, for the first time in more than a decade. The watershed watchers cite possible reasons ranging from global warming to tribal fishing.

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Glad to be home safe
December 8, 2006 10:43 pm
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 |   Triangle | WS breaking news

We’re just trouble magnets today. After the drama of the 35th (and surrounding streets) shutdown earlier (see posts below), on our way home from an evening outing just now, the Fauntleroy/Alaska intersection got blocked, as we approached it, by a police car arriving to check out a three-car smashup that appeared to have happened moments earlier. Didn’t look too serious, but the city 911 log page does show a fire-engine callout, so things may be a little jammed there till later tonight.

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All over
December 8, 2006 12:17 pm
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 |   WS breaking news

Just back from a trip to check out 35th — all open now — we wound up behind what was probably the last of the officers, two guys in a scary charcoal-gray humvee-ish vehicle you probably wouldn’t ever want to see pull up in your neighborhood. 4 PM UPDATE: Now there’s a brief story in the P-I.

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A few details
December 8, 2006 11:22 am
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 |   WS breaking news

According to a blurb currently atop this news site that was atop a news site for a while,   “a man has barricaded himself inside an apartment” and that’s what’s going on along 35th (see below).

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Still not sure what’s up but here’s a photo
December 8, 2006 10:18 am
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 |   WS breaking news

WS Blogger Spouse took the photo from the Chevron on 35th near the shutdown:DSC02902.JPG

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“Ahoy to the world!”
December 8, 2006 9:42 am
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 |   Holidays | Seen at sea

This is the usual greeting over the loudspeaker from the Christmas Ship as it arrives at one of its stops, blazing with light, serenading everyone on shore with live Christmas songs from performers on board. And this is the big weekend for our part of town. Here’s hoping the weather won’t be too bad. First, on Saturday, the Christmas Ship (and whichever boats choose to accompany it) will pull up to Seacrest Pier at 5:15 pm, with Northwest Girlchoir Vivace performing. Then it goes back downtown to swap out choirs; with the Vashon Island Chorale on board, it’ll visit Lowman Beach at 8:50 pm Saturday, and then sail back along West Seattle’s west-facing shoreline, to reach Alki Beach for a stop at 9:40. All three of those stops are supposed to have bonfires, by the way. If you can’t catch the Christmas Ship on Saturday, it will make one more WS stop — Sunday, 7:10 pm, Don Armeni, also with a bonfire. The full schedule is linked from our WS Holiday Stuff page, as are other holiday activities in WS this weekend, including tonight’s tree lighting @ Our Lady of Guadalupe. (We’ll be out tree-shopping too, and planning to post a price-check here at some point!)

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Stay away from 35th
December 8, 2006 9:16 am
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 |   WS breaking news

35th is blocked off right now south of the Austin vicinity. WS Blogger Spouse had to detour onto a side street … and a couple more of those streets are blocked off too. Lots of police. Not sure what’s going on — WSBS is going back to see how close it’s possible to get to check it out.

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