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If you were wondering what all those sirens were about just after 10:00 tonight, so was I. Seattle's Real Time 911 told me that there was a massive, multi-unit response to a fire in a single family residence on Bagley between 41st and 42nd. I rushed to check it out to find no fire, no smoke, but indeed a massive multi-unit response. The scuttlebutt on the sidewalk was that the house was filled with smoke and 911 was called. Everyone appeared…

As reported last year on Wallyhood, Seattle Parks and Recreation will be renovating the play area on the east edge of Gas Works Park this year. As part of that work, Puget Sound Energy will be installing “pipes and monitoring wells” as part of the ongoing contamination cleanup effort. This work was determined by the state Dept. of Ecology to have no significant environmental effects, but public comment on this finding is being solicited until March 16. I suspect that very…

Back on January 30, I wrote that persons who had been camped out on the Burke Gilman Trail between Gasworks Park and I-5 had, effectively, been served with an eviction notice. As some readers noted in the comments, the city followed through with that eviction. Just weeks later however, campers returned. Nathan dropped us a line: I was wondering if you can do a follow up to the Burke Gilman Trail homeless population since everything is "back to normal." Between Stoneway…

I had hoped to have a long post here that finally dispelled the mystery around what happened to Wine World (400 NE 45th St). Since it first opened, it's served as a gateway to Wallingford, a towering landmark over I-5. But the footprint! How can they afford the rent? Why did the first owner, David LeClaire, exit? Who owns it now? What's been going on since it closed 14 months ago? Why did it close? Unfortunately, all I can say at the…

Reading the news used to be my favorite past time. My standing answer to the question "what do you want for your birthday?" has been "a comfy chair, the Sunday New York Times, and a snifter of brandy." But it's been hard to even look at the paper for the last few months. A climate denier leading the EPA, a racist as our Attorney General, an ignorant billionaire in charge of the Department of Education, and a neo-Nazi white supremacist pulling…