Longfellow Creek in Seattle on a misty, sunny, and cold January morning. #Seattle #WestSeattle #Delridge #Nature #Urbancreek #Longfellowcreek

WEST SEATTLE SCHOOLS: Louisa Boren STEM K-8 students and staff march in MLK’s honor (WSB photos by Torin Record-Sand) Before the three-day weekend that ends with Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day, at least one local school honored his memory with an assembly followed by a march. Students and staff at Louisa Boren STEM K-8 marched around their campus along the 5900 block of Delridge Way SW this […]

FOLLOWUP: Lee’s Produce reopens; celebration of life February 1 for owner Nam Suk Nasatka (WSB photo, this morning) On New Year’s Eve, we reported on the death of a beloved figure in the South Delridge/White Center community, Lee’s Produce owner Nam Suk Nasatka. Readers had noted the produce market has been closed at times in recent days and wondered about its status. We went over today and found it […]

BIZNOTE: Pipe break temporarily closes 2 Fingers Social The latest West Seattle business temporarily shut down by a pipe break is 2 Fingers Social. The bar’s proprietors first posted on social media that they were closed by “flooding,” then updated with the discovery of a “broken pipe 20 feet down” that they expect will keep them “closed for a while.” They elaborated, “It’s […]

PawsVIP: New West Seattle business, new WSB sponsor PawsVIP recently moved into 9064 Delridge Way SW and is a new WSB sponsor, which means they get to tell you about what they do: What We Do: PawsVIP is a locally owned dog day care and boarding facility. We’ve been running our first location near SeaTac since 2019, and West Seattle (9064 Delridge Way […]

BIZNOTE: ‘It’s just pizza’ – says proprietor of Pizza Ritual, settling on days/hours (Photo courtesy StarChefs) In addition to West Seattle’s sit-down pizza restaurants, the local commissary kitchens host takeout-only pizzerias, including Pizza Ritual, which has been making appearances since summer at KBM (5608 Delridge Way SW). Proprietor Matt Gorman emailed us to say that “starting this week, Pizza Ritual will be offering online pre-ordering/pick-up as well as […]

Saturday Night Drag Show !

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Also on Delridge Way: Work to start on turnaround at 22nd SW Last June, after months of controversy over City Councilmember Rob Saka‘s espousal of removing a centerline curb on Delridge Way, he and Mayor Bruce Harrell announced the curb would stay and three other projects would be done instead. The biggest of those projects is about to start: SDOT says work could start as soon as […]

You asked, so we asked: About the orange mesh along Delridge slope A reader asked what’s going on with that Delridge greenspace, east of the Southwest Precinct and the businesses north of the precinct [vicinity map]. We recalled development plans nearby, years ago, but that’s not what this is for. The land is SDOT property, so we took the question to that department. Turns out it’s for […]

STOP: 26th SW and SW Genesee now all-way stop after SDOT sign installation Thanks for the tip and photos! A reader reports that the intersection of 26th SW and SW Genesee is now an all-way stop, after SDOT installed signs on Genesee today: This comes five-plus years after a community controversy over a different plan to calm traffic at that intersection: In 2020, SDOT announced a sudden plan […]

WEEK AHEAD: West Seattle light rail ‘visioning forum’ Monday (Sound Transit map of West Seattle extension as currently planned) Just one major West Seattle meeting planned in the three days before the four-day holiday weekend: Tomorrow is the rescheduled date for the “visioning forum” planned to look at where the West Seattle light-rail project is now and what might happen next, as Sound Transit […]

West Seattle Tool Library gets ‘ReThink Waste’ grant (Photo courtesy SPU/WM: Tool Library’s Sean Isom and WM’s Anna Seweryniak) Every Wednesday, as featured in our Event Calendar and daily highlight lists, the West Seattle Tool Library hosts a Fix-It event, to which you can bring a tool and get help fixing it so you don’t have to toss it. That’s why Seattle Public […]

UPDATE: Car crash = one-hour power outage for 4,400+ customers 11:58 AM: Some have lost power and a car crash is likely to blame – a driver is reported to have hit a utility pole by the Southwest Precinct at Delridge and Webster. 12:01 PM: More than 4,400 customers are out per the Seattle City Light outage map. 12:12 PM: Some traffic signals are in […]

SALMON SEASON: Big volunteer turnout for Longfellow Creek cleanup. Here’s what they saw (Photo courtesy Puget Soundkeeper) By Hayden Yu Andersen Reporting for West Seattle Blog Nearly 60 volunteers gathered Saturday at Dragonfly Pavilion for a salmon-season Longfellow Creek cleanup event hosted by Puget Soundkeeper and Delridge Neighborhoods Development Association. The event was a way for community members to become stewards of their environment, said Tanya Balaji, a […]

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READER REPORT: Crosswalk added at Delridge Way SW and SW Alaska The photo and report from Delridge Way SW and SW Alaska were sent by Shane: Wanted to write as I didn’t see it mentioned on the road work today … it looks like the city (finally) put in an official crosswalk by the Delridge Playfield. It’s just paint and a couple signs but it’s still […]

WEDNESDAY: Create your own costume with upcycling at Youngstown Cultural Arts Center Haven’t finalized your Halloween costume yet? Make – or decorate – one at a Youngstown Cultural Arts Center workshop tomorrow (Wednesday, October 29)! Claire from DNDA sent word of the fun – and sustainable! – event: This Wednesday, October 29th from 5 pm – 7 pm, DNDA’s ArtPlus team will be hosting a free community […]

WEDNESDAY: Create your own costume with upcycling at Youngstown Cultural Arts Center Haven’t finalized your Halloween costume yet? Make – or decorate – one at a Youngstown Cultural Arts Center workshop tomorrow (Wednesday, October 29)! Claire from DNDA sent word of the fun – and sustainable! – event: This Wednesday, October 29th from 5 pm – 7 pm, DNDA’s ArtPlus team will be hosting a free community […]

WEDNESDAY: Create your own costume with upcycling at Youngstown Cultural Arts Center Haven’t finalized your Halloween costume yet? Make – or decorate – one at a Youngstown Cultural Arts Center workshop tomorrow (Wednesday, October 29)! Claire from DNDA sent word of the fun – and sustainable! – event: This Wednesday, October 29th from 5 pm – 7 pm, DNDA’s ArtPlus team will be hosting a free community […]

WEDNESDAY: Create your own costume with upcycling at Youngstown Cultural Arts Center Haven’t finalized your Halloween costume yet? Make – or decorate – one at a Youngstown Cultural Arts Center workshop tomorrow (Wednesday, October 29)! Claire from DNDA sent word of the fun – and sustainable! – event: This Wednesday, October 29th from 5 pm – 7 pm, DNDA’s ArtPlus team will be hosting a free community […]

WEDNESDAY: Create your own costume with upcycling at Youngstown Cultural Arts Center Haven’t finalized your Halloween costume yet? Make – or decorate – one at a Youngstown Cultural Arts Center workshop tomorrow (Wednesday, October 29)! Claire from DNDA sent word of the fun – and sustainable! – event: This Wednesday, October 29th from 5 pm – 7 pm, DNDA’s ArtPlus team will be hosting a free community […]

WEDNESDAY: Create your own costume with upcycling at Youngstown Cultural Arts Center Haven’t finalized your Halloween costume yet? Make – or decorate – one at a Youngstown Cultural Arts Center workshop tomorrow (Wednesday, October 29)! Claire from DNDA sent word of the fun – and sustainable! – event: This Wednesday, October 29th from 5 pm – 7 pm, DNDA’s ArtPlus team will be hosting a free community […]

WEDNESDAY: Create your own costume with upcycling at Youngstown Cultural Arts Center Haven’t finalized your Halloween costume yet? Make – or decorate – one at a Youngstown Cultural Arts Center workshop tomorrow (Wednesday, October 29)! Claire from DNDA sent word of the fun – and sustainable! – event: This Wednesday, October 29th from 5 pm – 7 pm, DNDA’s ArtPlus team will be hosting a free community […]

WEDNESDAY: Create your own costume with upcycling at Youngstown Cultural Arts Center Haven’t finalized your Halloween costume yet? Make – or decorate – one at a Youngstown Cultural Arts Center workshop tomorrow (Wednesday, October 29)! Claire from DNDA sent word of the fun – and sustainable! – event: This Wednesday, October 29th from 5 pm – 7 pm, DNDA’s ArtPlus team will be hosting a free community […]

WEDNESDAY: Create your own costume with upcycling at Youngstown Cultural Arts Center Haven’t finalized your Halloween costume yet? Make – or decorate – one at a Youngstown Cultural Arts Center workshop tomorrow (Wednesday, October 29)! Claire from DNDA sent word of the fun – and sustainable! – event: This Wednesday, October 29th from 5 pm – 7 pm, DNDA’s ArtPlus team will be hosting a free community […]

SEEING SALMON: More Longfellow Creek sightings More salmon sightings in Longfellow Creek! Thanks to Manuel Valdes for the photos above and below: Steve Pumphrey reports sightings too – “6 or 7 good-sized fish” – and sent this photo of a Great Blue Heron pondering some fishing on the creek: The footbridge south of West Seattle Health Club (28th SW and SWYancy) […]

SEEING SALMON: More Longfellow Creek sightings More salmon sightings in Longfellow Creek! Thanks to Manuel Valdes for the photos above and below: Steve Pumphrey reports sightings too – “6 or 7 good-sized fish” – and sent this photo of a Great Blue Heron pondering some fishing on the creek: The footbridge south of West Seattle Health Club (28th SW and SWYancy) […]

SEEING SALMON: More Longfellow Creek sightings More salmon sightings in Longfellow Creek! Thanks to Manuel Valdes for the photos above and below: Steve Pumphrey reports sightings too – “6 or 7 good-sized fish” – and sent this photo of a Great Blue Heron pondering some fishing on the creek: The footbridge south of West Seattle Health Club (28th SW and SWYancy) […]

SEEING SALMON: More Longfellow Creek sightings More salmon sightings in Longfellow Creek! Thanks to Manuel Valdes for the photos above and below: Steve Pumphrey reports sightings too – “6 or 7 good-sized fish” – and sent this photo of a Great Blue Heron pondering some fishing on the creek: The footbridge south of West Seattle Health Club (28th SW and SWYancy) […]

SEEING SALMON: More Longfellow Creek sightings More salmon sightings in Longfellow Creek! Thanks to Manuel Valdes for the photos above and below: Steve Pumphrey reports sightings too – “6 or 7 good-sized fish” – and sent this photo of a Great Blue Heron pondering some fishing on the creek: The footbridge south of West Seattle Health Club (28th SW and SWYancy) […]