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The Seattle school board, faced with explosive enrollment growth in the North and Northeast clusters and a brutal season of austerity, decided to pull the plug on AS#1 in order to free its building (Decatur) up to house a new K-5. Under the plan, AS#1 students would join Thornton Creek (the school formerly known as AEII) in creating a new K-8 at the Jane Addams site that currently houses Summit K-12, which is getting shipped to the other end of the city -- Rainier Beach.
Got all that?...
I got an e-mail a couple of weeks ago informing me that Amazon Fresh was finally expanding into 98103. This now means that you can get Amazon to deliver your groceries to you if you're in North College Park (aka Licton Springs) and Greenwood....
It's getting increasingly certain that Seattle Schools, confronted with a large shortfall and a rapidly souring economy, is facing with another round of school closures.
The latest discussion seems to be focused on either closing or merging Summit K-12 and AS #1 in order to clear space for more students in the Northeast cluster. There's active resistance to closing Summit K-12 (as you'd expect from a school with a supercharged PTA), and one could probably expect the same resistance from AS #1 parents....
The city, in its quest to make Seattle a little more bike friendly, restriped North College Way (the road in front of NSCC) and Meridian (what it's called north of 100th) this month.
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As someone who grew up in Oklahoma, I do loves me some chicken fried steak. Problem is, of course, that chicken fried steak isn't something that comes natively around Seattle. Not a whole lot of Texans migrate up this way, much less attempt to cook chicken fried steak....
When Europeans first started to cobble together maps of the world at they understood it, there were a lot of places they didn't understand, gaps in their cartological knowledge.
Their solution to these gaps was to just draw a sea serpent in that spot and add the words HIC SUNT DRAGONES -- here be dragons.
When Seattle made its final push to cobble itself together as a city after WWII, they annexed a...