Go West!: Chainsaws, Cops and a Whole Ton of Seal Pups

Under the West Seattle Freeway by Tony Case from our Flickr pool.

Every Friday, we post the week's happenings in Seattle's island town.

Among the West Seattle happenings that hit the news this week:

• The man allegedly mocked by police officers while he lay injured after getting hit by a semi-truck is a West Seattle local. Police Chief John Diaz has apologized to the man, which he apparently accepted.


• Also local: the dude who went on an alleged "chainsaw rampage" in a reported chain of events that started with misuse of a locksmith to try to break into a woman's hope he claimed was rightfully his, and ended with him threatening her family with not one, but two chainsaws, then filing a police report when the woman took the completely reasonable action of pulling out a rifle.


• Water Taxi ridership is up, like by a lot.


• An update on the local tremor patient who underwent an experimental and apparently ground-breaking procedure: he can now eat out, read books and type!


• Local author Conrad Wesselhoeft's novel Adios, Nirvana: now in paperback.


• The West Seattle Herald profiles Georgie Bright Kunkel on her doll collection, but the piece is really worth it for the last two paragraphs.


• Boathousegate 2011 has perhaps ended, and not in Alki Crab and Fish's favor: Seattle Parks has denied their appeal.


• Local country music figure Brent Amaker gets some love from the Weekly for his Christmas album.


• We mentioned in this morning's headlines that three men were honored for heroism by the Bellevue Police Department? One of 'em's a local boy.


• Finally, those good ol' seal sitters apparently had a record-breaking year: they protected 50 pups!