Ready for 2022? Here we go. Here are a few of the things you might have missed around the neighborhood during the holiday break.

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  (Image: Vios Cafe)

  Snow and cold: It snowed a bunch, got icy, and Capitol Hill felt its coldest day in 23 years. Some sidewalks still have ice so watch yourself.

• Student and teacher COVID testing: Seattle Schools is part of the frontline as the city emerges from the holiday period and gets ready to go back to work amid surging COVID-19 case totals and questions about whether this variant will end up as damaging to hospitals and as deadly as past strains.
• Goodbyes: Vios has closed. Cafe Presse is closing. And Mia’s also said goodbye. Continue reading →

People, again, lined E Pine on Memorial Day for a free burger thanks to Li’l Woody’s (Image: Li’l Woody’s via Facebook)

Feeling a little behind? Here are some of the more important stories covered by CHS in the past week. Catch up!

• City Hall announced a new plan to patrol Cal Anderson with park rangers and put more SPD feet — and bikes and hooves — in the public space.
• The holiday weekend appears to have been relatively quiet around the park as far as public safety issues go as “predictive policing” patrols have already begun.
• After 21 years, Theater Schmeater is looking for a new home.
• A Sunday afternoon fire caused $100,000 in damage at this North Capitol Hill home.
• An I-5 bridge fell into the Skagit River. Here’s a look at “Seattle’s worst bridges” and the massive maintenance backlog to blame.
• State Senator Ed Murray won an expected — and important — endorsement on his home turf.
• Seattle City Council members are pushing three requirements for new legislation to better regulate microhousing.
• Pop-up retailers are finding relative bargains on rent in Capitol Hill storefronts destined for redevelopment.
• ORCA cards are now available at most QFC and Safeway Capitol Hill grocery stores.
• The Social won’t return to E Olive Way but there is plenty of interest in the space.
• Developer Mike Malone says his planned 8-story E Pike development should be a model for projects in the Pike/Pine Conservation District. The project gets its first run through design review Wednesday night.
• Black Coffee is learning what it takes to operate an anarchist collective as a successful cafe business on Capitol Hill.
• Tacos Chukis is expanding.
• Molly Moon Neitzel will join a first-time food+drink entrepreneur in a new ice cream and cookie shop venture on 19th Ave E — Coming soon: Hello Robin.