Save a kitty

March 4, 2007 12:40 am

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| Pets

Just noticed (thanks to Seattle City Buzz) that the next Seattle Animal Shelter cat adopt-a-thon is next Saturday @ Alki Community Center. Both of our cats are ex-shelter kitties; besides getting joy from having them share our lives, we get to bask in the warm and fuzzy feeling we probably saved theirs.

Sleepy Bear in a body bag?

March 3, 2007 11:11 pm

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| Seen around town | Triangle | West Seattle businesses

Or so it appears, at the only motel in West Seattle, where the Travelodge sign is now tarped over. Tried calling; no answer. Checked the Travelodge website; it says only “dates for this property are not available on our system at this time.” Hmm. (On a somewhat-related note, why IS that the only motel or hotel in WS? We kinda get the Alki angst over the lodging proposal there, but surely there is room somewhere within our borders for a nice non-B&B place to stay … you’d think. We had one a century ago!)

West Seattle waterfront, pre-dawn

March 3, 2007 7:09 pm

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| Environment | West Seattle online | Wildlife

Looking around YouTube to see what people have posted from WS lately, found this.

Pointlessness at the Polls, T minus 10 days

March 3, 2007 11:35 am

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| Viaduct vote

-Even a “new” viaduct would include a section of repaired/retrofitted viaduct, says the P-I.

-A fan of a seldom-discussed option, a bridge over Elliott Bay, lays it out in the Times.

-Pro-viaduct commercial, analyzed.

-Anti-viaduct commercial, analyzed.

-Near the end of this councilmember-who’s-leaving profile, West Seattle’s Most Famous ex-State Supreme Court Justice thinks 100,000 people live in WS.

Putting up a good front

March 2, 2007 11:54 pm

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| Seen around town | West Seattle businesses

Some facade fine-tuning in The Junction: Bakery Nouveau has finally erased the last traces of the previous occupant from its awning (left); Divina‘s front sign (right) is temporarily missing while some roof work is under way.

It finally happened …

March 2, 2007 9:50 pm

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| West Seattle restaurants

… a night when we could barely get into a WS restaurant. Maybe it’s all those folks moving into all those townhomes, or else it’s just that we’ve got great places dishing up great food. First we tried The Junction; barely found a place to park; walked into our restaurant of choice, were told we’d have to wait at least half an hour. Eventually moved on to Admiral; nowhere to park but that dingy garage near Bartell … eventually managed a table at one of the few not-so-trendy places nearby. Anyway, congrats to the places where business is booming; reservations might be in order soon!

And the name is …

March 2, 2007 2:24 pm

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| December 2006 windstorm

The National Weather Service just announced the winning name in the contest (here’s a Times writeup) to name the December 2006 windstorm: The Hanukkah Eve Windstorm. We still think “Thursday Night Football Windstorm” would have been better. At least the winning name came from somebody in Burien, which was hit just about as hard as we were in WS.

First weekend in March

March 2, 2007 7:05 am

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| WS culture/arts | WS Weekend Lineup

If you have time to do more than sit around plotting a party for the early start of Daylight-Saving Time next weekend (or St. P’s Day, beyond), here’s what you can do THIS weekend (after the jump):Read More

The Final Four!

March 2, 2007 6:47 am

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| West Seattle online

Bless all you WSBers (we need a T-shirt, don’t we? soon as we get a logo!) who campaigned to help us get this far in the Metroblogging Seattle popularity-poll-that-won’t-stop. Now, we are in the Final Four (vote here) and proclaimed as “having moxie.” (Actually, we haven’t been there. Yet.)

Death Star Trench By The Sea?

March 2, 2007 6:02 am

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| Development

Things are pretty tall and dense along the stretch of Beach Drive between Weather Watch Park and Me-Kwa-Mooks. This is likely to continue the trend, replacing a few surviving century-old homes:

Let’s talk tacos, amigos

March 1, 2007 6:33 pm

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| Reader recommendations | West Seattle restaurants

“K” e-mailed us to ask if we have any taco truck recommendations, in WS or White Center vicinities. Sorry to say, we haven’t gotten any more exotic than Taqueria Guaymas. Anyone with a recommendation for “K”?

The popularity poll from hell turns … hellish

March 1, 2007 6:23 pm

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| West Seattle online

Wow, what a bizarre turn of events. So our latest opponent in Metroblogging Seattle‘s never-ending popularity poll registered a sudden burst of votes last night, and the poll operators started the whole thing over again, one-day sudden death. Now today the comments on the original poll post went totally nuclear. We appreciate the people who cared enough to vote for us (and if you haven’t yet, you can still vote, with just hours left to go), but gosh, it’s not worth mudslinging, it’s really just a goofy little blog stunt (we hope MS has gotten a few thousand extra pageviews for its trouble!).

Pointlessness at the Polls, T minus 12 days

March 1, 2007 6:20 pm

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| Viaduct vote

-Two more cases for “no/hell no” — Geov Parrish and Cascadia Report.

–Viaduct, The Blog keeps shilling for “repair & prepare,” aka “retrofit” and … (You know, we just keep yearning to rhyme “retrofit” with “acquit,” a la Johnnie Cochran.)

-Shockingly, Slog hasn’t posted ANYTHING on the VV so far today.

Deputy mayor in WS tonight

March 1, 2007 6:52 am

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| Fauntleroy | Transportation | West Seattle politics

Reminder — Deputy Mayor Tim Ceis talks transportation at the Fauntleroy Community Association’s community meeting at The Hall tonight. (He’s filling in for Hizzoner, who is in DC this morning to talk to Congress about global warming.)

No weather worries

March 1, 2007 6:31 am

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| West Seattle weather

Though the North End is still a mess, looks like WS made it thru the night snow-free. No school changes either, except for a few Head Start programs to the north.

Rave review

March 1, 2007 5:31 am

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| West Seattle restaurants

That’s what Kokoras Greek Grill in Morgan Junction just got from the Seattle Weekly, five months after opening.

From the Death Star Trench file

February 28, 2007 8:08 pm

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| Development

Kinda like that nickname for the upward development along Cali. Or maybe we’re just hopeless SW geeks. Anyway — today’s developer development: Houses going down, more townhomes going up, on the north end, on a lot sold to Omni for a cool $1.8 mil last spring.

But is it pro-tunnel, pro-rebuild, or …

February 28, 2007 7:55 pm

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| Not WS but we're mentioning it anyway | Viaduct vote

Under The Viaduct, WSB reader Lillie found this wolf, clearly cousin to the owl and bear beneath The Bridge, perhaps howling in anger at the vote that’s wasting $1 million?

No flakes yet

February 28, 2007 5:25 pm

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| West Seattle weather

At least at our house … though Everett, Snoqualmie Pass, and other areas are getting snow-blasted. Let us know if you see WS snow!

Give a little, get a lot

February 28, 2007 6:54 am

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| West Seattle schools

It’s school $-raising season, and the parents at Madison Middle School asked us to share this request: Donate to their upcoming auction. They’re looking for new items, open to just about anything — art, gift baskets, sports souvenirs, you name it. If you don’t have schoolkids in your family, you may not realize how important these annual fundraisers are — a couple WS elementary schools, for example, are raising $ to fix deteriorating playgrounds. To offer an item (or find out about auction tickets), click here to e-mail the Madison auction chairperson, who also explains where the $ will go:

The auction benefits the Parent Teacher Student Association (PTSA) programs and this year’s fund a wish item is a message board much like the one in front of West Seattle High School which will help to communicate to the parents/community the events at the school as well as important messages that somehow seem to get lost in a pre-teenager’s backpack!!!

Pointlessness at the Polls, T minus 13 days

February 28, 2007 6:26 am

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| Viaduct vote

-City Council member Peter Steinbrueck says he’ll leave the council when his term expires this fall, to focus on The Third Option.

-His current council colleague Nick Licata, who’s pro-rebuild, answers questions on the Seattle Times website from noon-1 pm today. You can send yours now. (If you missed it, here’s the transcript of Hizzoner’s lunchtime online Q-n-A from yesterday. Even just the photo of him at the keyboard is worth the click.)

-No surprise, this ballot of too many options, yet too few, is apparently confusing people. (Can’t say we didn’t warn ’em.)

Non-viaduct vote update

February 28, 2007 6:09 am

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| West Seattle online

As of this writing, we’re a bit behind in the Metroblogging Seattle popularity poll, which closes this round tomorrow. Boo! Please vote again today. Show ’em the West Side rules.

Showtime for the “nightlife” fight

February 27, 2007 10:08 pm

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| West Seattle politics | WS culture/arts

One month after our last post on the controversy over the city’s proposed crackdown on “nightlife” businesses — the so-called “nightlife premises legislation” — opponents and supporters are about to get their day before a City Council committee. Opponents, including West Seattle restaurateurs whom you would never consider to be “nightclub” operators, contend this law will hurt their businesses and your/our right to patronize them — so they’re pleading for backup at the meeting (9:30 am Thursday, City Hall downtown) to make sure they’re not outnumbered by community groups (reportedly mostly from other parts of the city) who have rallied in support of the law. If you can’t be there in person, here’s how to contact council members to let them know what you think. If you want to read the whole ordinance for yourself, here it is.

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