Every neighborhood has its own unique individuals. Our old neighborhood had a block where all the houses had plastic pink flamingoes in the front yard. Our current neighborhood had the Flag Lady. I met The Flag Lady at a city council meeting some years ago. She was a retired social studies teacher who flew a …
Tag: Bothell WA
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Jul 03
Fireworks on the Fourth
Most public Independence Day fireworks shows have been canceled this year due to COVID-19. Many of the towns in the Seattle area ban fireworks sales and use. The glaring exception is our hometown of Bothell. I counted three fireworks stands on our way to the grocery store this morning, within five miles of each other. …
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Jun 01
Where’s the Chicken???
Paris has the Eiffel Tower. Seattle has the Space Needle. Bothell has the Country Village Chicken – or rather, used to have the Country Village Chicken. As you may recall from this post last year, Country Village was a funky little collection of shops north of downtown Bothell. The owners sold the property to a …
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Jan 05
Worst Day Run
January in the Seattle area is usually cold and rainy. Sometimes high winds get thrown in to compound the misery. As I write this, some intrepid runners are gathering in downtown Bothell for the Worst Day of the Year Run. This is of a piece with other cold-weather lunacies, such as the assorted Polar Bear …
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Dec 25
Bothell’s Newest Park
While we were in France, the Bothell City Council finalized purchase of the former Wayne Golf Course. The vote was unanimous to purchase the back 9, mostly because the no votes for the front 9 vote were not in attendance. The park is already in use. Some folks have pick-up disk golf games on the …
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Jun 24
Good Triumphs Over Greedheads
Last year I wrote that the Wayne Golf Course was bought by the land conservancy Forterra. The stipulation was that the city of Bothell would raise the money to buy it from Forterra. Over half the money has been raised through contributions and grants. It was time for the city to put some money on …
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Dec 26
Rebuilding Bothell
Back in July, downtown Bothell suffered a fire of major proportion on its Main Street. The city rallied to help the businesses displaced by the conflagration cover their losses and find new locations. The surviving downtown businesses hosted a block party, as I reported in this post. Today’s Seattle Times reports on a state grant …
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Jul 29
Bothell’s Bouncing Back!
Early on the morning of July 22, a fire broke out in a building under construction on Main Street in downtown Bothell. It quickly grew to three alarms. Fire departments from around the area came to fight the flames. Not only was the origin of the fire destroyed, the building across the street was a …
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Jul 16
The Hard Part
As you may recall from my earlier post, Victory, the Forterra Land Conservancy has agreed to buy the Wayne Golf Course and sell it to the city of Bothell. Grants have been secured for over half of the final sales price. Now comes the hard part: What do we do with the land once we …
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May 21
As Seen in Sunset
Our little town of Bothell has made the big time. The June issue of Sunset magazine had an article on our little town and its restaurant/microbrew scene. Now this was in the Seattle regional edition, but you can probably find the article on the Sunset website. The article lists restaurants and pubs in the downtown …
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