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Don Franz corn maze...
Feliks Banel

Feliks Banel: The mystery of Washington’s first corn maze

Lend us your ears for a kernel of truth, as we stalk the fields and archives in search of the Evergreen State鈥檚 very first corn maze.
8 months ago
King Street Station 1915...
Feliks Banel

Feliks Banel: Railroad history conferences in Everett are a metaphorical 鈥榞olden spike鈥

Two railroad history groups are collaborating and their conferences are actually overlapping at a hotel in Everett.
8 months ago
Plaques created in the 1990s by the City of Sumner to honor longtime local families and donors will...
Feliks Banel

Feliks Banel: Feuding families and overnight campers vie for Sumner鈥檚 historic tiles

Nick Biermann contacted 成人X站 Newsradio earlier this week about an unusual event scheduled to take place on Mon. Sept. 9 at Sumner City Hall.
8 months ago
NOAA Weather Radio...
Feliks Banel

Feliks Banel: Human hands – and ears – help NOAA鈥檚 radio robot get place names right

The NOAA Weather Radio robot voice pronounces the names of local communities correctly because human hands and ears are at work.
8 months ago
holy rosary church tacoma...
Feliks Banel

Update: Hope for saving Holy Rosary Church in Tacoma?

The group was asked by the Seattle Archdiocese to present a proposal for preserving the 104-year-old Holy Rosary Church in Tacoma.
8 months ago
Image: Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr of The Beatles fishing from their hotel room...
Feliks Banel

Searching for Beatlesville and Beatles Avenue on 60th anniversary of band鈥檚 Seattle visit

When Beatles were in Seattle 60 years ago, they made it from Sea-Tac Airport to the Edgewater Hotel聽and then to Seattle Center.
8 months ago
Pike Place Market...
SHAWN GARRETT, 成人X站 7 NEWS

Seattle鈥檚 Pike Place Market opened 117 years ago today

It's an icon in Seattle. The Pike Place Market, known for its flowers, food, and art, turns 117 years old today.
8 months ago
Image: The original giant painted plywood cowgirl in Rainier, Wash. dates to 1982; this photo is fr...
Feliks Banel

The Rainier cowgirl is a big asset for this small town

A sign for a shop that once sold T-shirts 鈥 in the shape of a giant "cowgirl" 鈥 has been resurrected in the Thurston County town of Rainier.
9 months ago
Charles R. Cross, second from left, moderates a panel at Easy Street Records in November 2023. Cros...
Feliks Banel

Charles Cross, acclaimed biographer of Hendrix, Cobain, dies at 67

The work of Charles R. Cross, well-known biographer of Pacific Northwest musical icons, will no doubt outlast all of us who mourn his unexpected passing.
9 months ago
Photo: The Brelsford WSU Visitor Center in Pullman....
Feliks Banel

96-year-old WSU Press will not close, will become part of WSU Libraries

University officials confirmed Friday 成人X站 Newsradio's reporting that operations of WSU Press are no longer slated to cease.
9 months ago
The World War II-era Hawaii Mars Water Bomber is being prepped at its base on Sproat Lake on Vancou...
Feliks Banel

Iconic Hawaii Mars Water Bomber set to make final flight

When a firefighting aircraft makes its final flight on Sunday, BC residents will see the Hawaii Mars Water Bomber.
9 months ago
street hydroplanes...
Feliks Banel

Street hydros captured the imagination of Seattle youth

If you鈥檙e a male between the ages of roughly 45 and 65 who grew up around Seattle, street hydros will make complete sense to you.
9 months ago
There's an Olympics tie to a candy maker in Issaquah. (Feliks Banel/成人X站 Newsradio)...
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Banel: Olympics-sized love for Boehm鈥檚 Candies in Issaquah

There's a connection between the 1924 Olympic games games and a longtime Northwest candy maker in Issaquah.
9 months ago
Portrait of former Seattle mayor Charley Royer taken sometime during his three terms as mayor, betw...
RESIDENT HISTORIAN FELIKS BANEL AND BILL KACZARABA

Former Seattle mayor Charley Royer dies at 84

Charley Royer, Seattle's longest-serving mayor, has died at age 84. Royer was Seattle鈥檚 48th and longest serving mayor.
9 months ago
Vanishing Seattle founder Cynthia Brothers, photographed in the doorway of the old Coliseum Theatre...
Feliks Banel

New book showcases 鈥楽igns of Vanishing Seattle鈥

A group that鈥檚 been documenting 鈥渄isplaced and disappearing institutions, businesses, communities and cultures鈥 will celebrate a new book.
9 months ago
news tribune driscoll...
Feliks Banel

Remembering News Tribune columnist Matt Driscoll

I was shocked to learn today of the sudden and unexpected death over the weekend of Matt Driscoll, a 43-year-old columnist for The News Tribune.
9 months ago
Powwow...
Feliks Banel

Feliks Banel: Seafair Powwow commemorates layers of complex history

The Seafair Indian Days Powwow at Discovery Park begins Friday featuring drummers, dancers and other performers.
9 months ago
The big blue flame first graced the Washington Natural Gas building in Seattle in 1964; it was take...
Feliks Banel

Feliks Banel: Icon extinguished as颅颅颅 big blue flame neon sign leaves Seattle

A neon sign that was an iconic landmark burning high above Mercer Street in Seattle鈥檚 South Lake Union neighborhood has found a new home.
10 months ago
An old newspaper clipping from the 1920s shows the "airsign" for SEATTLE at the Standard Oil facili...
Feliks Banel

All Over The Map: Searching for 鈥榞host signs of the air鈥

An aviation historian said you might be able to spot one of these "Ghost Signs of the Air" still on duty in a few Washington towns.
10 months ago
Taco Time Wallingford...
Feliks Banel

Feliks Banel: 鈥楤eacon of tacos鈥 shutting down in Wallingford

News broke Wednesday afternoon that the iconic Taco Time restaurant in Seattle鈥檚 Wallingford neighborhood will close in just a few days.
10 months ago
Marshall Dompier of Port Angeles was one of the earliest American Cub Scouts, and likely the first ...
Feliks Banel

Feliks Banel: Forgotten Pearl Harbor hero was a Cub Scout from Port Angeles

A young sailor from Port Angeles who died more than 82 years ago in the early hours of the attack on Pearl Harbor is making history.
10 months ago
Photo: Airborne United Airlines鈥 DC-4 at Sea-Tac Airport on July 9, 1949....
Feliks Banel

Vintage photos: Sea-Tac Airport celebrates 75 years

While its origins as an airfield date back to the early months of World War II, the Port of Seattle is marking 75 years of Sea-Tac Airport.
10 months ago
Image: XXX Root Beer in Issaquah will reopen as a Burgermaster location in 2025....
Feliks Banel

All Over The Map: Remodel project uncovers hidden past of beloved XXX drive-in

Work underway in Issaquah to convert the old XXX Root Beer to a Burgermaster has revealed a key feature of the original drive-in.
10 months ago
Stacey and her fellow Edmonds Junior High alums went all out with a video singing - and dancing - t...
Feliks Banel

Welcoming summer with vintage local junior high fight songs

Three community members took the time to record the middle school fight songs they remembered so that they could preserved for posterity.
10 months ago