A Festive Time in Fabulous Fremont Trolls, tree-lighting, merrymaking and, of course, Santa Claus came to Fremont on December 7. Santa met up with a wee penguin (Allison Keil) and monkey (Laura Keil) and their parents, Richard and Elizabeth, in Adobe Plaza.

Letters to the Editor

Burke-Gilman Trail "missing link" and the monorail are commented on.

UW and Grad Students Avoid a Strike

University of Washington graduate students "recessed" their planned strike December 4 after an agreement was carved out in midnight negotiations, just four hours before picket lines were scheduled to go up around UW's main campus in Seattle. Union leaders

Greenwood Library Design Proposal Meets Skepticism from Neighbors

Seattle Public Library officials stepped into a hornets' nest of criticism when they unveiled preliminary drawings for the new Greenwood branch library on December 5, at a joint meeting of the Phinney Ridge and Greenwood Community Councils.

Obituary

In Memory of Stephen Blood, 1967-2000

Stephen Douglas Blood, Jr., a student at Pacific Oaks College, a former painting contractor and bicycle messenger, took his own life November 30. Stephen was a friend, a neighbor and a co-worker.

Good Food

Cooking With Viggo

Multi-Culti Christmas

Christmas in the United States is such hodgepodge of customs that it is often difficult to say what comes from where. But even in today's multi-culti environment, old-country traditions do persist in purer form around the country.

Historic Calendar Now Available

Get your Green Lake calendar now, featuring historic photos of the old Green Lake neighborhood.

Week Three on the Newspaper Picket Line

As the Seattle Times/Post-Intelligencer strike enters week three, talks continue. Meanwhile, those on the picket line remain hopeful.

Small Ideas for Seattle

City Hall Planners Need to Follow the Three Rs

The City of Seattle officially asks all of us to reduce, recycle and reuse. City Council should reduce the size of the new City Hall project, recycle Key Tower which we already have and reuse the old City Hall site as a meeting hall.

Union Election Set at Northwest Hospital

Northwest Hospital employees will get to vote on whether they want a union on January 4-5, 2001, in a representation election conducted by the National Labor Relations Board.

Musical Mystery

A piano is half-buried in the front yard of a house on 6th Avenue Northwest. How did it get there?

Well, let me tell you...

Michael Shuler at the Sunset Tavern, December 5

Though a lot of his material is dark, he also writes yearning love songs, and his stage patter shows off his sense of humor. A Michael Shuler song is a series of subtle snapshots that, like all great photographs, capture indelible images.

Three Squares

Breakfast on Capitol Hill, lunch in Fremont, dinner in Roosevelt.

Santa Expelled from City Schools

Santa Claus has been banned from Seattle Public School holiday celebrations, according to Schools General Council Mark Green.

Wildlife Report

Beavers on the Lake Washington Ship Canal and developers on the North Fork of Thornton Creek.

Hash

A woman chains her scooter to the playground fence at a Ballard elementary school on a Friday afternoon at 4:30 p.m. When she returns an hour later, she finds that unknown persons have slipped the scooter through the chain, taking the scooter...

Kalakala a Step Closer to Port Angeles Move

A group of about 30 community leaders from Port Angeles toured the Kalakala on December 2, and met with owner Peter Bevis about the possibility of moving the ship permanently to Port Angeles.

Is It Over After Age 40?

Next Stage Dance Theatre, a Fremont-based dance company, is composed entirely of dancers over age 35 who are pursuing their profession.

Trojan Horses at the Zoo

A recent Seattle Times article that sounds more like a Zoo Society press release (amazing what people get away with in the absence of labor unions) reports that next year an antique carousel will "make its debut at the Woodland Park Zoo."