The Weekend Wrap: Neighborhood Headline News Jan. 9-15

"tracks" from our Flickr pool's zenobia_joy captures the ghostly, transient quality of our one-night-only snow.

• Aurora Pothole Disproves "Pothole Paradox" (Aurora | Seattle)
• Sen. Kohl-Welles introduces medical marijuana reform legislation (My Ballard)
• Opinion: Service Center should become community information space (Beacon Hill Blog)
• Don't Sacrifice Natural Resources for Something as Unimportant as Money (Belltown Messenger)
• Elliott Bay Seawall Project Open House (belltownpeople)
• Six-story apartment building at 13th and Madison unthawed as Cap Hill market picks up (Capitol Hill Seattle)
• Tougo hopes to re-open this weekend (Central District News)
• Eastlake traffic backs up as parents drive their kids to TOPS to protest bus cuts (Eastlake Ave)
• Fremont Parking Rates On The Rise (Fremont Universe)
• SDOT: Potholes soon to be fixed on NE Ravenna Blvd, street will be completely resurfaced in 2012 (My Green Lake)
• Thornton Creek salmon program threatened (Maple Leaf Life)
• Phinney Market marks down inventory as it prepares to close (PhinneyWood)
• Uptown parking rates decrease, pay hours go up (Queen Anne View)
• Vince’s to Close After 50 Years in Rainier Beach (Rainier Valley Post)
• Bake-at-home pizza and collegiate surplus new to the area this week (Ravenna Blog)
• No parking rate increase for Roosevelt (Roosiehood)
• The Secret Public Garden of Rainier Beach (Southend Seattle)
• Farmers markets are out of season... or are they? (The Southlake)
• One week down in 15th Ave NE project (U District Daily)
• Fireworks will go on July 4 (My Wallingford)
• Wallingford Has Been Tagged (Wallyhood)
• Foreclosure-sale date set for ‘The Hole,’ aka Fauntleroy Place (West Seattle Blog)