Neighborhood News And Local Blog Round-Up
- With the Chase Family 4th fireworks bonanza now over, event organizers are back to scrambling, as one-time sponsor JPMorgan Chase--who inherited the WaMu fireworks contract--has announced they will no longer sponsor the large fireworks show.
- We have eight days, EIGHT DAYS (!) till the light rail opens. For residents who live in or south of Rainer Valley, guest columnist Martin Duke of Seattle Transit Blog offers a quick guide to navigating your way to the stations.
- If you're strolling through the Pike Place Market (near Stewart Street) on Friday, Voracious alerted us to keep an eye out for folks in bright red Northwest Cherries t-shirts. They will be handing out free--yes FREE--Rainier Cherries.
- The Eastlake Ave. blog, curious about their neighborhood's past, discovered the current ZymoGenetics building was once the Lake Union Steam Plant, originally built in 1912
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