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We promised during WSB Pledge Day that we would keep working to make the site worth your time and trouble (not to mention the $ that many readers were kind enough to invest). We’re working on several upgrades. The first successful one fixes a somewhat secret (but annoying) problem: Until now, comments on WSB were not searchable; if you remembered reading something in a comment and tried to find it with the WSB search box, no dice — “search” would only look at the posts (though comments at least were indexed by Google and other offsite search engines). Now, this is fixed, so whatever you put in the WSB search box, you will get back a page with any posts featuring that text in either the body of the post or its comments. (Test it by searching for the name you use to leave comments!) NEXT UP: We’re working on the oft-requested “open discussion” (forum/bulletin board) feature — thought we had one earlier tonight, but it blew up the site, so we had to cancel it — stand by for eventual triumph!

Doggie stardom may await

September 1, 2007 7:38 pm

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| Pets

OK, who can resist a cute pooch pic? Just a few days left to get in on the dog photo contest at Thriftway in Morgan Junction. Deadline to submit a pic is Tuesday; judging is Wednesday.

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Teardown-to-townhouses: Here goes another one

September 1, 2007 2:34 pm

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| Development | West Seattle housing

It’s almost the mid-Cali equivalent of those last few Alki cottages dwarfed by multistory condos — this 95-year-old house at 5232 Cali, between commercial/mixed-use buildings across from the West Seattle Veterinary Hospital/West Seattle Nursery block:

An application is on file to tear down this house and replace it with 3 “live/work” townhouses and 4 “residential” townhouses. The application mentions an architect from Place Architects, as well as Knoll Development, the company also behind the fire-gutted “live-work townhouse” project at 4132 Cali (where, following the rubble removal, only a charred foundation eerily stands).

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T-shirts to show your WS pride

September 1, 2007 11:46 am

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| Fun stuff to do | WS culture/arts

If you’ve been looking for more ways to show your love for, devotion to, crazy-mad-nuts-aboutness regarding, West Seattle … check out the WS Art Dive next to Hotwire this weekend. Right at the gate, we found artist Jason Olcott selling two types of T-shirts that might meet your need … one is black, fists on the front with WEST SIDE across the knuckles, WEST SEATTLE on the back; the other is pink, inscribed in script, WEST SEATTLE GIRL. 20 bucks. Those are only two of the catchy creations we browsed at the Art Dive; participating artists are there, basking in the sun, awaiting your visit, till 5 today, 10-5 tomorrow.

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Condo conversion clash

September 1, 2007 10:18 am

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| Not WS but we're mentioning it anyway

The latest from the Battle in Ballard is interesting, given the conversion-mania raging here on our side of the bay.

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Yard-sale season, the final weeks

September 1, 2007 7:33 am

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| WS miscellaneous

Another weekend has arrived, as has the month in which fall will begin. Yard-sale season is in its ebb tide. This weekend, will we find another round of creative signs like this memorable WS campaign last weekend? Let us know if you see anything double-take-worthy. Meantime, though we do not (yet) routinely feature yard sales, we heard from someone whose 1-day sale on Fauntleroy today sounds intriguing …Read More

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