These Central Seattle school kids are getting a soft addition to their blacktop playground

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Part of life for many Pacific Northwest kids — especially in densely populated areas around Capitol Hill — are affordable and long-lasting hard-top paved elementary school playgrounds. Seattle Public Schools has budgeted to change that for one corner of a neighborhood school’s campus.

Plans are afoot for a $416,000 project to install synthetic turf on a large rectangle of the Leschi Elementary School campus, according to city permits. The new turf area will be installed where the school’s futsal court is currently marked. Continue reading →

Sunday in Cal Anderson: ‘ICE OUT FOR GOOD’ demonstration

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The groups involved have also kept up a series of protests targeting the Tesla dealership at University Village including a protest Friday (Image: Seattle Indivisible)

Groups that organized to bring together a Seattle Waterfront vigil and march this week to mark the killing of Renee Nicole Good are planning another rally Sunday in Capitol Hill’s Cal Anderson Park. Continue reading →

This week in CHS history | Goodbye to the Broadway bike bollards, Hollingsworth launches campaign, 2021 COVID-19 vaccination rollout

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A Broadway bollard in happier times (Image: SDOT)

Here are the top stories from this week in CHS history:

2025

 

Belmont-Boylston ‘double house’ considered as landmark in preparation for Historic Seattle sale


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Power out around Broadway and John after another reported underground electrical fire

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Friday night’s outage map from Seattle City Light

An underground fire and more issues with the grid around Capitol Hill Station knocked out power to at least 450 customers around Broadway and John Friday night.

“Crews are responding to an energy response underway for a vault fire in the 100 block of Harvard Ave. E. Please avoid the area,” Seattle Fire reported about its “energy response” as the incident unfolded around 6:30 PM.

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Cafe Lolo will make seasonal start this spring on Capitol Hill

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(Image: Cafe Lolo)

Three cooks are ready to share the kitchen in a new start in Capitol Hill’s historical Loveless Building that will align with the seasons of the Pacific Northwest’s farmers and foragers.

“Having three, each person has their thing that’s theirs, and we feel support from each other” Leah Engel tells CHS about Cafe Lolo, a “seasonally dictated” day and night cafe taking shape in the longtime E Roy home of Cook Weaver which closed as 2025 drew to an end to make way for the new project.

Much as Cook Weaver’s Zac Reynolds balanced family and a food and drink career for a near-decade of service at Cook Weaver, restaurant veterans Engel and Alex Halmi found love and a life together growing Cafe Lolo at Seattle farmers markets and pop-ups.

As they honed the concept for a fixed-place version of Lolo with a residency last year at Roosevelt’s Three Sacks Full, Engel’s co-worker at the NE 64th locally-sourced restaurant Brett Bankson joined the team. Continue reading →

CHS readers pick the most important Capitol Hill stories of 2025

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Top CHS stories from the 2025 Year in Review survey

The people — at least 306 of them — have spoken. These are the most important CHS stories of 2025.

Over the holidays, we posted our annual CHS Year in Review with our top stories from 2025. We also asked CHS readers to weigh in on which stories they felt were the most important as the neighborhood looks to the new year ahead.

This year’s top results focus on some of the most painful memories and lessons of 2025 — and some of the uncertainty. There was also hope — Katie Wilson’s victory managed to climb its way to a third place finish in the survey.

CHS MOST IMPORTANT 2025 STORIES — READERS’ CHOICE

A view of a September murder scene in Pike/Pine (Thanks to a CHS reader for the picture)

  • PIKE/PINE GUN VIOLENCE: Matters of life and death are larger than the calendar. A year of deadly Pike/Pine gun violence stretched back to October of 2024 when 25-year-old Breanna Simmons was gunned down on 11th Ave in a murder that has not been publicly solved. Looking back just a bit further, 23-year-old Kenji Spurgeon was shot and killed in July in a parking lot at 10th and Pine. Last New Year’s Eve, 29-year-old Jonny Adamow was shot and killed at Broadway and Pike. This fall, 26-year-old Robert Fleeks and 18-year-old Jaydon Jameson were murdered within two blocks of Broadway and Pike. The latest killings brought new calls for more to be done as District 3 rep Joy Hollingsworth released a five-point plan of “immediate actions” needed to address ongoing safety issues in the area. Continue reading →

CHS Year in Review 2025 | The year in pictures

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OK, ok, ok… you have probably had enough of 2025. Indulge us one last look back.

Here is the year that was in pictures on CHS. Take a look through the memories and faces from the year. Thanks to the photographers (especially, you, Alex Garland) and the neighbors who captured these images for us to see what was happening and who the people are who made news on Capitol Hill. Each photo links to the story behind the image. Now, back to 2026…

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Why this summer’s World Cup in Seattle will bring ‘Soccer Viewing Party’ and ‘Match Day Celebration’ events to Capitol Hill

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A goal at Cal Anderson? No fees or licenses required

With somewhere around 750,000 fans expected in Seattle for its part in the 2026 Men’s World Cup, Capitol Hill bars, cafes, and restaurants may have some Super Bowl-sized hopes of drawing crowds with events and watch parties around the matches.

They should be ready for Super Bowl “big game” sized headaches around FIFA restrictions on viewing parties and events.

To help Seattle’s venues prepare, business chambers have been holding meetings and webinars to help lay out the rules. The GSBA is holding its session for members and anyone else with interest next week:

In this session, we’ll walk through the Community Watch Party Playbook, a guide designed to help organizations understand FIFA’s viewing party rules, licensing requirements, and event-planning best practices. The webinar will simplify the process of securing a FIFA viewing-party license and outline the key steps for hosting a compliant and engaging community event. The session will also include a Q&A with Eric Corning from the Seattle Sports Commission.

You can register here.

The whole thing runs pretty much like the Super Bowl “the big game” where restrictions — and general fear about crossing any legal lines — brings a round of “big game” events and promotions by typical venues who aren’t planning anything near large enough to deal with fees and licensing. Continue reading →

Rapist who recorded assaults in Capitol Hill apartment sentenced to 46 years

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More than eight years after the assaults, an activist and entrepreneur who used Seattle University as his home base for establishing himself as a media pundit and expert on Native American issues has been sentenced to 46 years in jail for the rapes of unconscious women he videotaped inside his Boylston Ave Capitol Hill apartment.

His victims say Redwolf Pope drugged them and assaulted them without their knowledge.

Videos of the attacks revealed the crimes.

In September, a jury convicted Pope of five counts of rape and four counts of voyeurism for the assaults beginning in 2016.

The long path to justice in the case included time for Pope to finish a sentence in New Mexico. In July 2018, Pope was arrested and charged with sexually assaulting a Seattle woman in a Santa Fe, New Mexico hotel room. Continue reading →

Groups holding ‘Abolish Ice’ vigil and march for Renee Nicole Good on the Seattle Waterfront — UPDATE: Council member condemns ICE and arrests in Seattle

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An “Abolish Ice” vigil for Renee Nicole Good is being organized by activists and community groups Thursday night on the Seattle Waterfront.

Local organizers for Seattle Indivisible and Defund Musk announced the planned 6:30 PM gathering will be followed by a march from Pier 58:

We are committed to nonviolent action. This event is a protected expression of our First Amendment rights. We expect all participants to avoid escalating confrontations with those who disagree with our values. We prioritize keeping all members of our community safe. Weapons of any kind, including those legally permitted, should not be brought to events.

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