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At age 94, Seattle's oldest bartender announces 'last call'

A north Seattle institution is closing its doors for now. The 94-year-old owner of the Shanty Tavern in Lake City is retiring after more than six decades behind the bar. His family — plus longtime regulars — raised their glasses recently for the Shanty’s last call.
- Casey Martin
Beloved produce market in Seattle’s Ravenna neighborhood closes after fire. ‘We will be back’

Rising Sun Produce, on the corner of 15th Avenue Northeast and Northeast 65th Street, is boarded up. The smell of smoke and soot linger. Burnt boxes and other cardboard debris line the loading area.
- Ruby de Luna
Ballard and North Seattle teens are being mugged on their way home from school
- Ashley Hiruko
A neighborhood ice rink says goodbye after 60 years

This week Seattle says goodbye to an ice skating rink that's been around for generations. Owners of the Highland Ice Arena in Shoreline say it’s a bittersweet end for the family business.
- Casey Martin
With light rail as fuel, Seattle's Northgate is ready to grow

This week, a lot of people tried light rail and got off at Northgate to look around. As they exited the station, many of them were greeted with a neighborhood undergoing massive change.
- Joshua McNichols
Here's what light rail means to these North Seattle commuters

Three new light rail stations open this Saturday in North Seattle at Northgate, Roosevelt, and the University District. It’s an important moment for Seattle. For the first time, North and South Seattle will really be connected by light rail. It's a dream that's at least 25 years old. We asked people what this moment means for them.
- Joshua McNichols
Serial rapists targeted women on Aurora. This woman got justice

In June 2017, Robin Curtis lived in a tent one block away from busy Aurora Avenue in Seattle.
- Kate Walters
'His eyes, he kind of looked at me.' Inside the mayhem in northeast Seattle

Two people were killed and two injured in a carjacking and shooting spree in Northeast Seattle Wednesday evening.
- Isolde Raftery
How to convince parents to vaccinate their kids?

This reluctance to vaccinate has shown up in two very different communities in Seattle – liberal white families and the Somali immigrant community.
- Kamna Shastri
What's that big yellow box perched on Phinney Ridge?

The air raid siren is about the size of a VW Beetle, weighs almost 3 tons and was loud enough to be heard a mile and a half away.
- Katherine Banwell

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