Interview with Arbor Heights kidnap-attack victim

August 4, 2007 11:54 pm

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| Arbor Heights | Crime | West Seattle news

Story and video clip here. Meantime, this story says suspect Alfred Layton Jr. made a court appearance today, bail set at $250,000. King County Jail Lookup says he is still in jail; state court cases search says he has a record, three criminal “non-traffic” cases in 1999, one “civil harassment” case in 2001.

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Arbor Heights arson?

July 26, 2007 10:28 pm

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| Arbor Heights | Crime | West Seattle fires | West Seattle online

From Creighton Space (one of the 75-plus sites featured on our Other Blogs In WS page): A poster near his home promises a reward for solving an arson, but where was the fire? (We’ll check with our police contacts in the morning if no one solves this sooner.)

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This’ll get your goat

June 25, 2007 7:15 pm

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| Arbor Heights | Seen around town | Wildlife | WS miscellaneous

Creighton, whose blog is on our Other Blogs in WS page, tells us goats are grazing the hill along Marine View Drive, just up from the Endolyne area of Fauntleroy, clearing brush and delighting onlookers; he sent this photo.

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West Seattle’s other spectacular sunset view

May 29, 2007 9:45 pm

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| Arbor Heights | Seen around town

Much as we love sun-behind-Olympics sunsets from Alki, Beach Drive, Lincoln Park, etc., we also are fond of the Mount Rainier sunset-time view from Arbor Heights:

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What all the Arbor Heights fuss was about

March 16, 2007 1:00 am

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| Arbor Heights | Crime

Several people e-mailed us to ask if we had any info re: helicopter, police, all sorts of hubbubbery last night in the Arbor Heights area. Lt. Paulsen at the Southwest Precinct was kind enough to provide this report:

Last night’s incident was basically an unknown female suspect who was driving erratically. SPD chose not to pursue the vehicle given public safety concerns. The female fled from the vehicle. SPD was able to locate the abandoned vehicle. Fortunately, there were a number of available police including K9 and a helicopter who were able to check the area. We were unable to locate the suspect.

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Arbor Heights shooting

December 13, 2006 6:39 am

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| Arbor Heights | Crime | West Seattle news | West Seattle weather

What’s going on here this week? First the stabbing, now a shooting reported outside an Arbor Heights home. Very short articles this morning from the P-I and Times. Is it the turbulent weather (which at this moment features howling wind following a night of pounding rain, and forecasts threaten worse on the way)?

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Deadly West Seattle fire

November 16, 2006 6:54 pm

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| Arbor Heights | West Seattle fires | West Seattle news

Not a very cheery week on this side of the bay, is it? Tonight’s news, a fire at an Arbor Heights house has killed a woman. The P-I says her son was badly burned trying to save her.

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Hmmmm

September 21, 2006 9:44 pm

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| Arbor Heights | West Seattle online

Not entirely sure what to make of this. Maybe someone trying to set the stage for, oh, say, Lonelygirl98116?

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West Seattle’s Net-savviest teacher

September 2, 2006 12:39 am

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| Arbor Heights | West Seattle online | West Seattle schools

In honor of the impending new school year … a shoutout to Arbor Heights Elementary teacher Mark Ahlness. I bumped into his “edtechblog” just now, after a few hops from the Arbor Heights PTSA blog, which I (in turn) happened onto while continuing the search for West Seattle-based blogs to link to. But I’d “heard” about him before — discovering some years back that because of him, Arbor Heights was something of a Web pioneer. (I’ve got a soft spot for 1994 too … that’s when West Seattle Blog World HQ got online, with a good old fashioned 14.4-if-you-were-lucky dial-up account that used the Lynx text browser to “surf” the early Web … oh, stop me before I get geekier.)

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