The Weekend Wrap Saw Nothing, Heard Nothing

A reminder that you need to take 1-90 because 520 is closed for inspection, reopening 5 a.m. Monday.

The Seattle Times says a man was found dead at a South Lake Union construction site early this morning, just three hours after someone called police to report shots fired. Police visited the call's location, a "private event" at the 1000 block of Valley Street, but no one had heard anything. Also, a woman was attacked by what she claimed was a man with a machete in "the Jungle" (11 Avenue South and Beacon Avenue South), though when police found her covered in blood, they suspected a blunt instrument.

This casts into relief the nothing-is-too-good-for-our-homeless advocacy of the City Council's Sally Bagshaw. Real Change reports Bagshaw objected to a housing site offered to Nickelsville residents by the mayor's staff, the former Sunny Jim peanut butter plant in Georgetown, because "[o]ut-of-sight, out-of-mind strikes me as not being the compassionate way we want to treat people." (See our previous coverage of the roving homeless encampment Nickelsville here.)

Publicola wrapped up the primary election results for you. (Yes, there was a primary election.) The mayor announced it was Geek Week in Seattle. More luxury condos hit the auction market; this time it's Olive 8 and the case of the price minimums. Researchers from the Hutch made a big step forward in determining the genetic basis of a form of muscular dystrophy. (More on this once I read their paper.) President Obama came to town and blew things up.

On to the neighborhoods! Richard Nordstrom stepped down as president of the Belltown Community Council. On Capitol Hill, people are sitting down at a table and talking for no good reason. (We'll keep an eye on this.) There's something symbolic about the CD's Youth Services Center contamination with PCBs. Down in SLU, they're enjoying Cascadelink's 30Mbps wireless internet for $34.95.

Blogging Georgetown adds their two cents to the Nickelsville relocation story. South Seattle Beacon has the story on Georgetown's other bridge closure in the works. Scroll down Rainier Valley Post for the saga of the 10-year-old gunman, who's been an outlaw since he was eight. For balance, Southend Seattle has a story on kids' activities that don't involve holdups.

Turns out the owner of Grand Central Bakery didn't just meet with the President, she's also a West Seattle resident. Continuing with the Ws, Wedgewood View says Magnuson is getting a $21-million pediatric dentistry center. My Wallingford is worried about losing their Farmers Market. U District Daily News notes the city has officially approved their light rail station. Work continues on the Aurora Bridge suicide prevention fence--just this week a woman was talked down.

Queen Anne View was bracing for Hempfest's stinky hippies. Maple Leaf wondered how steep their hill was. Magnolia Voice asked for feedback on the Nickerson road diet. How green were my My Green Lake's gardener's tomatoes? Really green. Ballard got a taco truck.