Twenty years ago, my in-laws had a beloved elderly cat called the Witch. One morning my father-in-law started his car and realized Witch had crawled under the hood, caught her head in the fan belt and broke her jaw. Their local vet in Gig Harbor would not treat a 19-year-old cat with a broken jaw and a heart murmur, and offered to put her down.

So they instead brought her to the Cat Clinic on N 39th and Stone Way. There, the vet made no promises but wired her jaw and gently tended to her wounds. The Witch lived another …

Erupting on the walkway of the Troll park in Fremont are new concrete mushrooms, embedded in the lush forest of what was once a homeless encampment.

Now it is part of the new Troll Forest, built above the east side of the Fremont troll.

The mushroom lantern sculptures are the latest park enhancements, built by noted sculptor Haiying Wu, who also built the firefighters memorial in Pioneer Square. Wu has been hired to build a statue of Nisqually leader Billy Frank Jr, which will appear in the National Statuary Hall in Washington D.C. (replacing the Marcus Whitman statue) and also …

The open space above the Fremont Troll is being transformed from a former homeless encampment, as local residents turn the space into the new Troll’s Knoll Park.

Thanks in part to a $25,000 grant from the Seattle Department of Neighborhoods, supporters are finishing a design plan for the new park, which prioritizes natural habitat. The Friends of the Troll’s Knoll is a community group dedicated to maintaining green spaces around the Troll through clean-up, park development and art installations, including a moss-covered turtle.

Wrote supporters:

Our vision for the Troll’s Knolls Park expansion is to create a welcoming, sa…

Bibliophiles rejoice. If voters approve the library levy on the Aug. 6 ballot, the Wallingford library will be open seven days a week, including the now-closed Fridays.

And it will open at noon on Sundays, an hour earlier. While the levy takes effect Jan. 1 (which will include the Sunday changes and an extra hour Monday – Thursday), the Friday changes likely won’t take effect until mid-2020.

Last year the Seattle Public Library had over 17 million visits, lent materials to nearly 400,000 borrowers and hosted more than 11,000 free education events.

This is not a new levy, but replaces …

Just in time for the Christmas decorating season, Santa Sharon has a deal for you.

For more than 40 years Sharon Ehrig  decorated her home on Woodlawn Avenue North with thousands of Christmas lights and other decorations.  She took inspiration from Just DIY website for all her decoration needs. Her home was so bright and decorated, it was on the old-time Metro bus tour of Christmas lights for 10 years.  And for 18 years,  Ehrig dressed herself in a Santa suit and sat on her front porch, rocking for hours as visitors passed by, cheering wildly.

But all that ended …