At about 4 o’clock yesterday afternoon, police responded to a report of two shots fired in the 9600 block of 41st Avenue S. The back window of a parked car had been shot out. A red Nissan 4-door car was seen speeding away northbound on 41st. The victim reported that the suspects appeared to be two Latino men between the ages of 18-20, possibly persons he had previously had an altercation with 3 years ago.
More details in the original report at the SPDBlotter.
Late Friday evening, a woman in her fifties was hit in the hip by a bullet from a drive-by shooting near South Holly Place. A few additional details in the Rainier Valley Post, the P-I Seattle 911 blog, and the Times.
Thanks for the heads up, JvA.
The Rainier Valley Post reports on a semi-truck stuck on the Spokane Street hill coming up from Columbian Way. Might be gone by now, but the police officer in the report expected effects lasting ’til noon.
Rebekah Denn at Devouring sEATtle follows up on her previous article about the surprise and sudden shutdown of fledgling cured meat emporium The Swinery. Getting the story from the Seattle and King County Public Health department, it sounds like a series of straight-ahead permitting problems, for both the sale and previous production of the meats. A hearing is set for today.
Additionally, the article has attracted plenty of anonymous grousing about proprietor Gabriel Claycamp and Culinary Communion. Take appropriate anonymous-internet-commenter precautions when reading.
KIRO is reporting a home in the 3900 block of 24th Avenue South is in flames.
It is currently unknown if any occupants were at home or injured.
I heard the news helicopter hovering in the area as I waited for the bus this morning.
Update: No injuries, cat safe, house insured, owners plan to rebuild.
Broadstripe (formerly Millennium Digital Media), cable television, internet, and telephone provider for a large portion of Beacon Hill, the entire Central Area, and parts of Capitol Hill and Queen Anne (inside the dashed red lines), has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.
The City of Seattle Office of Cable Communications notes:
The local Broadstripe office confirmed the filing and will send us formal notification. We will meet with them as soon as is feasible. Broadstripe also confirmed its commitment to continue providing service to Seattle customers with no interruptions during the financial restructuring. We will monitor customer calls to the Cable Office to confirm that service does not suffer.
This action was apparently taken back at the beginning of January, according to the city website.
I wonder if this might light a fire under the development of a municipal cable or fiber deployment like Tacoma has with their Click! Network. A city task force concluded in 2005 that “in order to remain competitive, Seattle needs fiber-optic lines to the home.” As of last spring, the city was still looking for a partner to help build and run such a system.
The Devouring sEATtle blog hosted by the P-I reports that the The Swinery, the cured meat operation recently started at Culinary Communion, has been shut down. Indeed, the Swinery website has been wiped. (See it as it was in the Google cache.)
The word is that it was shut down by the health department in some sort of retaliation for an underground restaurant project called “Gypsy“.
Let’s hope this is just a speed bump and not a dead end for delectable locally cured meats.
Further details in the original “Swinery shutdown” post at Devouring sEATtle.
Thanks for the tip, Anita!
The warehouse “retail food store” that’s been for rent on the corner of 15th & Beacon looks to be actually transforming. Almost all of the pallets have been moved out of the front area, leaving a large vacant space in a prime location. Here are a couple of photos of the inside taken earlier this evening:
(Sorry for the blur.)
Party participants are encouraged to bring gloves, shovels, trowels, raingear (just in case), and snacks!
If you can spare some time and labor sometime between 10am and 5pm (particularly between 2 and 5), the Steps and your neighbors near them would be mighty appreciative.
The original invitation mail from Jorji and a map is after the break.
Thanks, Jorji!
Follow along at beaconhillbungalow.blogspot.com as new Beacon Hill neighbors Laura and “Labor Foreman” (does that make her Laura Foreman?) utterly disassemble and then put back together a 1920 bungalow to their own design. They’ve been doing mostly demolition since getting started just over a month ago, and are now gearing up for rebuilding. Everything from plumbing to insulation to counter tops is just beginning to come together now.
It saddens me a bit to see the house with so much original craftsmanship be completely gutted. Here’s hoping their plans are not only perfect for them, but are also well-suited to the bones and character of the house.
Welcome, Laura and “Labor”! (I think his name is actually Justin.)
