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May 18, 2011
Here’s some (relatively) good transportation news: Gas in the neighborhood dropped below $4 a gallon. For regular. For now. Nationally, the Associated Press is reporting that gasoline prices are dropping across the country, for a national average around $3.93 a gallon. Here, KOMO-TV quotes AAA this week as saying Seattle-Everett prices hover right at $4 …
May 18, 2011
Commute cyclists - who seem to be all over the news currently (here’s today’s column by Danny Westneat in The Seattle Times) - will be out in force Friday. May is National Bike to School Month, and this Friday is our local Bike to Work/School Day, sponsored by the Cascade Bicycle Club. Among those participating …
May 18, 2011
Burglars continue to strike neighborhood homes, though not as regularly as they were last winter. In recent weeks police report: Two homes and a business were broken into on May 13. Police report the business, listed as “1000 block of Lake City Way Northeast The Pet Pros,” was broken into by kicking open the office …
May 17, 2011
There was a full house at tonight’s North Link light rail open house at Olympic View Elementary School, 504 N.E. 95th St., but little in the way of new information about the Northgate Station. (Read our earlier post for details.) With 15 percent of the station design completed, Sound Transit remains on time and on schedule, …
May 17, 2011
With the cost of food going up, one group of Seattleites has figured out how to eat every meal for free. They call themselves “freegans,” more commonly known to outsiders as “dumpster divers.” As one freegan says, “People think that food that goes in the garbage is bad.” They disagree. But it’s not just about …