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So, you remember last week there was a fire on 4th Ave? Everyone, including the twin 6-month-old girls, got out safely. While most of the second floor tenants' things were destroyed in the fire, the first floor and basement tenants escaped with only smoke damage to their belongings... Until the looters showed up. Moe's story starts on the Friday afternoon before the fire: I had just got home from work, my boyfriend was at my place, and my landlord had just gotten…

Krystal, the office manager of Bedrooms and More, alerted us to a crime that happened in their parking garage on Friday, August 19th. When watching the video, the vandals first appear after 53 seconds. This all occurred in afternoon at a little after 4pm on Friday, 8/19/16. The teens(?) spend about 10 minutes defacing the parking garage until they are scared off by a passerby. Who knows what else they would have done had they not been stopped? One of the…

As we all know, the views in Seattle can be spectacular, and some people will go to great lengths to create them or preserve them. Trees, even those on public land, can be cut down – as in this case in West Seattle back in March. (Here's a very recent update to that story.) Some have even resorted to poisoning trees, as occurred along the Burke Gilman trail back in 2008. And there are a host of strictly legal means to…

Wallingford's own FamilyWorks Food Bank and Family Resource Center has its largest fundraiser of the year on Nov. 6th. This event includes a silent auction and FamilyWorks is in need of a few more item donations. Would your business be willing to donate any of the following? Restaurant gift certificates Nice bottles of wine Store gift certificates Jewelry If so, please contact Joey Ashenbrenner at 206-694-6725 or [email protected]

Strolling down to Dunn Lumber on Sunday morning, I was shocked to see a charred facade where our neighbor's house at 4019 4th Ave NE had stood unscathed just days ago. It was especially disturbing because I know that it was a duplex with newborn twins living on the second floor. So it was a relief to hear from Scott today that while it was serious, everybody got out safely: Friday night, we settled in to bed and were awoken at 4:20…