April 2019

South 200th Street Shared-Use Path

This project includes building a new separated shared-use path along South 200th Street between 12th Place South and the Des Moines Creek Trailhead. The project will provide pedestrian connections to street improvements that will be constructed at the intersection of Des Moines Memorial Drive South and South 200th Street, and a connection to existing pedestrian and bicycle facilities accessing the Angle Lake Light Rail Station.

Des Moines Memorial Drive South and South 200th Street Intersection

Improvements for this intersection include construction of bike lanes, curbs and gutters, sidewalks, new pavement, installation of street lighting, a new traffic signal system with pedestrian crossings, left turn lanes for all approaches, and construction of a right turn lane on westbound South 200th Street. Final design and right-of-way acquisition are currently underway.

Update 7:00pm

Power is now mostly restored with widespread but only pocket of outages remaining.

Original Post 4:10pm

After the driest March on record, April brought with it a rainy day with wind gusts and a power outage that  16,463 City Light customers without juice as of about 3:50pm on Friday. Highline Medical Center was reportedly running on back up generators as City Light crews rushed to fix the damage caused by a car/pole collision on E. Marginal Way. They report that  several feeders are out. The car accident trapped two people near the Museum of Flight. 

The outage extended from roughly 106th SW on the north end down to Normandy Park and from the water up near Shorewood over to I-5 on the east. 

 The City Light System Status Map shows the extent of the outage.

information from the City of Seattle

Do you have a community project idea, but need some support to help make it happen? The Neighborhood Matching Fund, a program of Seattle Department of Neighborhoods, invites you to any of our three workshops where you’ll learn how to get funding for your project. Each workshop will provide an overview of the Neighborhood Matching Fund, the qualities of a strong application, and the review process. Community and neighborhood groups interested in the fund are invited to attend. 

Update: Thanks to the extensive media coverage, a family member recognized the person of interest and, a short time later, the 34-year-old male turned himself in.  Upon further investigation, the suspect was arrested today at his attorney’s office and booked into the King County Jail for investigation of rape.   

Original post 

According to the King County Sheriff's office  on December 16, 2018 at approximately 12:15 AM  a woman was at a bar in the 5100 block of  Ballard AVE NW in Seattle.  She went outside to catch a rideshare home that a friend had ordered for her.  A man in a black vehicle, possibly a Dodge Charger, led her to believe he was her rideshare driver. 

information from King County Sheriff

UPDATE:

Today 4/2/2019, suspect Daniel Varela AKA “Capone” was arrested after an anonymous tip from crime stoppers stated he was seen at the Zintel Canyon Park in Kennewick.  Members of the US Marshal’s Task Force located Varela sleeping in a brushy area.  He was arrested without incident and booked into the Benton County Jail in Kennewick.

Thanks to everyone who helped to locate and arrest Varela without incident. 

Thunder Road Guitars at 4736 California Ave announced today their plan to leave the West Seattle Junction and move to the Morgan Junction. Owner Frank Gross shared a press release on the move and said,  "When I founded Thunder Road Guitars in the fall of 2011, as a life-long West Seattleite, I could only dream of one day having our store located in the Junction. In just 4 years we moved from the Acitvspace building on Alki where I leased a 110 square foot office, to our first “cozy” brick and mortar storefront north of the Junction, to our current location, which I believed would be our forever home.