Category : History(223)
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Des Moines Memorial Way South, Women’s Memorial
By Mildred Andrews Posted 1/14/1999 HistoryLink.org Essay 679 On Armistice Day, November 11, 1921, members of the Seattle Garden Club, led by President Lillian Gustin McEwan, planted the first 25 elm trees along Des Moines Way S (later renamed Des Moine Memorial Drive) — the beginning of a living memorial to “American men who gave -
Des Moines — Thumbnail History
The City of Des Moines, located 15 miles south of Seattle along the shores of Puget Sound, has never been a large center of industry like other Seattle suburbs. Although it incorporated as recently as 1959, it has been a Northwest community for more than 100 years. Europeans first saw the high bluffs of Des -
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1997-11-01Des Moines Creek Basin Plan November 1997
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Down-To-Earth Job — Sea-Tac’s Third Runway To Get Its Fill Of Dirt
Jack Broom Seattle Times Staff Reporter Let’s say you’ve been looking for a better view, but you don’t want to leave the neighborhood. Instead, you bring in fill dirt to raise your property so you can see over all your neighbors. Somehow you get the dirt to form a nice column straight up from your -
Moscow-Pullman Daily News July, 11 1996: Activists propose new ‘Puget Sound County’
SEATTLE - Cedar Caunt;y. Casade County. Enumclaw County. Sll)l1coml&h County. Pioneer Counl)'. WhlLehorse Counl)'. A lla ofu............rul proposals ror now countJea in Wuhington atal.c migltt well cxoood lhe 89 counties now in eJ<Jate-. but what some &OUth KinJz County rutdenta ltove in mind Ia diffon>nL A aunJ>4lilln boi"!18Jinounced today would C..rve l'uget Sound County out or tlle Kin& County, from the wburt>e a:ound SeattJe. 'lllooma lutemational AiJ1>ort to the Plcrco Count;y line. 'The people or South King County have !tad It up to here with theM powo"' that bo: oaid Peter'Townsend, a Federal Way accountant and member of the Puget Sound County Steerlng Committee. Bad<en aoy thoro would bo lliO.OOO to 200.000 res!denl4. in the now county. whlc:h would con·alit or Fedora! WD¥• Burien, 0.. Molnea. Normanely Park, &aThe. 1\akwUa and a few unincorporated areu. lt'a tho n .. t eampoign, at lout In r.cent memory, to fonn a r>ew counl)l In a largely urban·l%ed uta. The last time a new C>lll1\y wu H\ablilhorl in WasltingtDn wu In 19 U.. wlten Paad OreUle County wu fanned out or the eutorn HCti.on or Stevena Coun11- In the 1 .. 1 throo docadoa thoro ltove been unsuc:caarw ltlemptl to form new eountlea only in predomiNlDtly rural ........ .-Uy oot or .u. gruntlemont with eounty gov·ommenta dominated by urban CO DC*~ FaUed aeceaalon movcmentl Include proposala for Cedar Co~ ln eD.Jtem King Coun~;y; Co 1 County in eastern King and Piorco• eounties; Freedom, Slcyl«>mlsh and Whlteltonoo counlleo in SDObolnlsb County; Plonttr County In northom WltaiCOm Caun\1- and Olympic Count;y In western C!&lam 8Jid Jofl"er1011 counlles. Some or the mollvatloa for Pupt Sound County is similar. -
1996-03-27Final Decision on Noise Issues – Expert Arbitration Panel’s Review of Sea-Tac International Airport
Expert Arbitration Panel’s final decision finding that the Port of Seattle had not shown sufficient reduction in real on-the-ground noise impacts to satisfy noise reduction conditions required for approval of a third runway at Sea-Tac International Airport. The majority decision concluded the Port’s noise abatement programs were insufficient despite being impressive in scope. -
HB1293 – 1995
This legislation, sponsored by 33rd Rep. Julia Patterson,did not make it as far as committee. The digest reads “Declares that agreements requiring property owners to waive damages caused by the operation of aircraft in exchange for noise mitigation measures are contrary to sound public policy. Declares such agreements to be null and void.” -
1994-12-11
Sea-Tac’s Turbulent History
Stephen Clutter, Paul J. Lim The latest controversy at Sea-Tac, over a possible third runway, is one more chapter in a long, turbulent history of airport expansion. Planes started using the site in 1944 and in five decades, it has become the 16th-busiest airport in the nation. ———————————- If you’re upset about the possibility of -
