Neighborhood News and Local Blog Round-Up
- As the Seattle Art Museum nears the end of the Mimi Gates era, they have announced Derrick R. Cartwright, of San Diego Museum of Art, will become SAM's newest director.
- Wallywood reports raccoons are infiltrating the Wallingford neighborhood. We wonder if it has anything to do with the large medical marijuana growing operation going on in a local Wallingford home.
- A big ol' three-alarm fire engulfed a South Seattle apartment building today--the fast-spreading fire left Whisper Wood Apartments neighbors without shoes, coats or even a standing home.
- Another burger joint chain we've never heard of, something featuring custom cupboards or "subway" style burgers, called Counter Custom Built Burgers plans to open in the Ballard Blocks development.
- Oh man, Leif Bearickson is going to be one unhappy bear. The folks over in Beacon Hill are capitalizing on their black bear sightings by creating T-shirts you can buy, with the proceeds going to a local charity
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