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Connor Lambert Named as Washington Huskies Pitching Coach | Coaching History & Success Highlights
Washington head baseball coach has appointed Connor Lambert as the new pitching coach for the Huskies, bringing his expertise after seven successful seasons at Portland where he elevated the Pilots' pitching staff to top rankings in various statistical categories. Lambert spent seven seasons at Portland as the pitching coach before...
Local Sandwich Chain Homegrown Will Close Most of Its Shops
Homegrown, the sandwich chain that focuses on sustainable farming and environmentally friendly practices, announced that it would be winding down operations at 10 of its 12 locations, leaving only the Mercer Island and downtown Seattle shops, King 5 reported late last week. The chain was founded in 2009 by Ben...
Seattle mother arrested in connection to 2023 case involving dead infant found in bush
SEATTLE — A Ballard woman accused of leaving her baby for dead in a bush in February 2023 will stay behind bars, for now. The child’s mother faced a judge Wednesday afternoon who ruled she'll be held on $150,000 bail. The 41-year-old woman was taken into custody Tuesday...
Mariners' Matt Brash: Set to begin throwing next month
Mariners general manager Justin Hollander said Wednesday that Brash (elbow) will begin a throwing program in mid-August, Ryan Divish of The Seattle Times reports. Brash underwent season-ending Tommy John surgery May 8 but looks to be progressing well in the early stages of his rehab. He shed a protective brace on his elbow a little over a month ago and will take the first meaningful step forward in his recovery when he begins throwing in a few weeks. If he continues to experience no setbacks with his throwing program late in the season and throughout the offseason, Brash could be ready to face hitters by the end of spring training, but he'll still almost certainly open the 2025 campaign on the injured list.
One Washington voter picks between 28 candidates for governor
On a recent Tuesday, Danielle Smith stood outside a retirement home in Renton, preparing to go in and pick a candidate for governor. Washington state hasn’t had an open governor’s race in 12 years. Twenty-eight candidates are on the ballot for the upcoming Aug. 6 primary. Fifteen of them were setting up inside, as well as representatives for two others and a write-in candidate.
Kalen DeBoer faces tough questions in Washington interview
Kalen DeBoer last did a spot with local Washington-area radio in the hours following his now-former team’s National Championship loss to Michigan. Now, the Alabama Crimson Tide head coach, DeBoer, joined Dave “Softy” Mahler and Hugh Millen on local KJR radio 93.3 FM nearly six months later. Neither wasted any time pressing DeBoer, asking questions Read more... The post Kalen DeBoer returns to Seattle radio after leaving Washington for Alabama appeared first on Awful Announcing.
Seahawks CB Riq Woolen gets surprisingly high spot on NFL's top 100 players
Last year when the NFL Network was putting out its yearly list of top 100 players in the league, the Seattle Seahawks only had three players make the ranking. Surprisingly, no receivers did. One player who did was Bobby Wagner who is no longer with the team. Riq Woolen was...
AT&T closes store at Broadway and Pike as Harvard Market shopping center adapts to shifting Capitol Hill commercial real estate demand
The company says it is simply responding to changing “shopping habits” of Seattle mobile phone consumers as the AT&T store at Pike and Broadway has been permanently closed. “Consumer shopping habits continue to change, and we’re changing with them,” an AT&T spokesperson tells CHS. “That means serving customers...
Oregon and Washington top wildfire priority in the U.S.
With 38 large, uncontained wildfires actively burning 838,908 acres of land across Oregon and Washington, the Northwest region is currently the top firefighting priority in the U.S. Roughly 91.5% of the 838,908 acres burning across the region are located in Oregon, making the state the top firefighting concern in the region and the country. Daily reports released by the Northwest Interagency Coordination Center, which helps coordinate the deployment of firefighting resources in Oregon and Washington, show that the federal government has given the region the...
Wednesday Dots: B1G Week
Good morning! We’ve got some dots for you to kick things off today, so let’s get right into it. The Seattle Times’ Andy Yamashita is at Big Ten Media days in Indianapolis. He has a report stating, among other things, UW is picked to finish tenth in the conference, behind schools like Nebraska and Rutgers. Read more here.
Harrell Proposes Urgent Public Safety Investments In Mid-Year Supplemental Budget Package
Last week, Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell introduced a series of public safety investments as part of his Mid-Year Supplemental budget package, building on the 2023-2024 adopted budget. Designed to address emerging needs in the city, the mayor’s supplemental budget proposal will provide additional funding to the Community Assisted Response and...
More Than 700,000 Acres of Wildfire Ravage Oregon
BELLINGHAM, Wash. (AP) — Firefighters in the West are scrambling as new wildfires threaten communities in Oregon, California and Washington, with at least one Oregon fire so large that it is creating its own weather. Interstate 84 in eastern Oregon was closed in both directions Tuesday between Ontario and...
WA utilities prepare public for possible power shutdowns to prevent wildfires
(The Center Square) – Puget Sound Energy and other utility companies in Washington state are preparing for the possibility of cutting the power in high-risk wildfire conditions. It has been a relatively quiet start to the fire season across Washington so far, though a large fire, called the Pioneer Fire is burning about 30,000 acres […]
Less than half of WA families who qualify for new tax credit are applying
(The Center Square) – Washington state officials say they are on track to meet the goal of having 50% of eligible families applying for and receiving a tax credit for moderate- and low-income families by this time next year. The Working Families Tax Credit is an annual tax refund for Washington residents worth up to […]
UW awarded $50M to lead U.S. research security center
Under a five-year, $50 million investment from the U.S. National Science Foundation, University of Washington Professor Mark Haselkorn is leading a national consortium of research institutions to bolster national research security. The Safeguarding the Entire Community of the U.S. Research Ecosystem (SECURE) Center will empower the U.S. research community to address critical issues of research security and integrity.
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