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| 1 | Phoebe Bock, community activist, philanthropist | Obituaries |
| Phoebe Bock's story could start where her life did, in a poor neighborhood of Honolulu, where she was the youngest of 12 children in a Chinese family, and didn't even wear shoes until the fifth grade. Or it could start from the ending, with Ms. | ||
| 11/21/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 2 | Man falls 8 stories, suffers minor injuries | Local News |
| A window washer fell eight stories outside a downtown Seattle building Thursday morning, but suffered only a broken finger and some bruising and soreness. Eduardo L. Castillo, 34, appeared to be in good shape and was talking as he was being loaded into an ambulance shortly after the 11:20 a.m. | ||
| 11/19/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 3 | Licata looks at boosting traffic-ticket revenue | Politics |
| A Seattle City Council member is proposing that increased use of automated "speed vans" and red-light cameras help plug a $4.5 million hole in the city's budget created by the decision this week to end the city's controversial "head tax." | ||
| 11/14/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 4 | Budget committee votes to ax Seattle's 'head tax' | Local News |
| Seattle is axing its controversial "head tax," which charges most local businesses $25 per employee to help fund city transportation projects, such as streets and sidewalks. The City Council's Budget Committee Thursday, despite a shortage of revenue, voted to repeal the tax, which raised about $4. | ||
| 11/13/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 5 | 8 from UW who received Medal of Honor | Local News |
| Courage under pressure is the common denominator among the eight University of Washington alumni who have received the Medal of Honor. In addition to John "Bud" Hawk and Bruce Crandall, the honorees are: Marine Maj. Gregory "Pappy" Boyington, 1912-1988 | ||
| 11/10/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 6 | UW to honor war heroes with Medal of Honor memorial | Local News |
| Earning a medal, of any sort, was the furthest thing from Bruce Crandall's mind on the morning of Nov. 14, 1965, as he repeatedly flew his Huey helicopter through a hail of enemy fire in Vietnam. Only this mattered: His comrades needed him. | ||
| 11/10/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 7 | 13 Chinese journalists get taste of Seattle area during visit to prompt tourism | Local News |
| How far would you go for a good Washington wine? Maybe just to the corner grocery, or your neighborhood wine shop. Or feeling adventurous, perhaps you'd drive to a Woodinville winery or a Yakima Valley vineyard. But would you fly 5,400 miles? Jerry Ma did. So did Ying Li. And Min Liu. | ||
| 11/3/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 8 | 'Cowboys Full: The Story of Poker': an all-American game comes of age | Arts |
| How many books about poker would it take, flooding into the American marketplace, to prompt The New York Times to observe that "poker literature is assuming formidable proportions"? Whatever that number, it was reached — not this year or last — but in 1875. | ||
| 11/3/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 9 | Interim King County assessor Rich Medved dies | Obituaries |
| Metropolitan King County Council Chairman Dow Constantine, in a news release announcing Mr. Medved's death, said Mr. Medved "served the people of King County with distinction for many years as Chief Deputy Assessor under former Assessor Scott Noble, and was a steadying force within the office." | ||
| 10/20/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 10 | Rich Medved dies; was interim assessor until stroke | Local News |
| According to a biography put together for that campaign, Medved earned a master's degree in business administration from the University of Washington. Before coming to work for King County, he was a real-estate developer, building housing subdivisions and shopping centers. | ||
| 10/19/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 11 | Radio's Bob Rivers owned 1 of 3 planes young burglar may have stolen | Local News |
| A Seattle radio personality says he's the owner of one of three small airplanes possibly stolen by a notorious 18-year-old Camano Island serial burglar. | ||
| 10/8/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 12 | Skating world puts a new spotlight on visitor-friendly Spokane | Travel and Recreation |
| SPOKANE — As a native of oh-so-sophisticated Seattle, I've always felt an unspoken civic obligation to look down on our cross-state country cousin, Spokane. But on a recent visit, something changed. | ||
| 10/8/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 13 | Spokane becomes 'Skate City USA' | Sports |
| SPOKANE — The fireworks — four nights' worth — have been ordered. Outdoor victory ceremonies are being arranged. Ten hours of live network TV coverage is planned. While much of the sporting world is focused on the upcoming 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, B.C. | ||
| 10/8/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 14 | Horse-park plans reach milestone | Travel and Recreation |
| CLE ELUM — Step through ankle-high pine grass that crunches under your shoe. Veer around a patch of prickly Oregon grape and make your way over to a 4-foot-tall plastic stake with a pink ribbon tied around it. | ||
| 9/17/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 15 | 2 tunneling machines on Brightwater sewer project are damaged — and 300 feet deep | Local News |
| "Helene" and "Rainier" are the nicknames of two 17.5-foot-diameter, German-made machines that are supposed to be hard at work boring sections of a 13-mile tunnel to take wastewater to Puget Sound from the Brightwater sewage-treatment plant King County is building north of Woodinville. | ||
| 9/8/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 16 | Some park users regret decision to close after cougar sightings | Local News |
| Cougar or no cougar, some neighbors near Discovery Park were disappointed to hear that Seattle's largest park has closed for what's unofficially the last weekend of summer. | ||
| 9/4/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 17 | Emerald City Search treasure found on Fremont sidewalk | Health and Family |
| You can see the metal discs all over town. They're placed on the sidewalk to anchor temporary parking-control signs. Chances are, you barely notice them. | ||
| 9/2/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 18 | Emerald City Search concludes as treasure is found | Health and Family |
| Participants competed for more than $5,000 in prizes, including two platinum passes to Bumbershoot, Seattle's music and arts festival, this weekend at Seattle Center. | ||
| 9/1/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 19 | Ready, explorers? Treasure hunt begins | Health and Family |
| One clue a day will be revealed for the next 10 days, or until someone tracks down the prize medallion and claims more than $5,000 in prizes, including two platinum passes to Bumbershoot, Seattle's music and arts festival, from Sept 5-7 at Seattle Center. | ||
| 8/26/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 20 | Dave James 'preached' from his reader board | Obituaries |
| Dave James, who died Thursday at 66 after a long illness, was the owner/operator of The Vac Shop, a small vacuum-cleaner sales and repair shop in Seattle's Georgetown area. His "pulpit" was the reader board outside his store, along busy Fourth Avenue South. | ||
| 8/18/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||