By Sound News reporter Emilia Ptak
It’s a crisp and unusually sunny February morning at Meig’s Park. An eclectic bunch has gathered –high school students, property-owners, a group of young kids from the home school network, and plant experts- to tackle the pesky weeds dilemma afflicting Bainbridge Island.
Weed Warriors, a loose coalition of Bainbridge [...]
By Sound News reporter Erica Petru
A few weeks before today’s final edition of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Robert McClure’s desk in the paper’s newsroom was stacked with countless yellow notepads, books on the Puget Sound, files, papers, mail, and inspiring bumper-stickers saying things like “Democracy Depends on Journalism” and “Never Give Up.” It was strange to [...]
By Sound News reporter Christina Madden
Boastful statements of lavish cruises and breathtaking sights often influence people to venture aboard a cruise ship. Princess Cruises states “standing at the edge of a rainbow field of wildflowers, you admire nature’s quiet and epic majesty. Then, something stirs — a rustling in the brush as a huge moose [...]
By Sound News reporter Scott Nordquist
Imagine the alarm if all of your plastic bags united together and emerged from the depths of your kitchen drawer to form one super bag. For many Puget Sound residents this haunting thought has already become a reality.
A shocking howl rang out across the steps of the Capitol as [...]
By Sound News reporter Clea Hersperger
Perfectly normal-looking herring swim through Puget Sound waters, but they’re not really swimming as quickly as you’d expect. Some herring are suffering heart problems due to exposure to pollutants. But we wouldn’t expect this from measuring pollutants, because the levels are so low.
Adult Coho salmon return to our [...]
By Sound News reporter Jeanne Fulcher
Anyone who has ever eaten crab so fresh that it is boiled in salt water within an hour of being caught will tell you there’s nothing like it. Feasts of crab like this have been a tradition that brings my family together – grandparents, parents, aunts, uncles, cousins, and sisters. [...]
By Sound News reporter Emilia Ptak
Rainy Seattle, nestled between Lake Washington and Puget Sound, enjoys an abundance of the wet stuff. Being surrounded by water and having it come down on us throughout the year is misleading in thinking that general availability and accessibility is the norm. The collective mindset reflects a standard, a high [...]
By Sound News reporter Scott Nordquist
Hacking through relentless blackberry and scotchbroom to plant native species isn’t normally the most enjoyable experience.
Nevertheless, I hear laughter ring out through the weeds. “At least 8 years!” Digging a piece of Styrofoam out of the ground and tossing it into a pile, Brian Sutter enthusiastically assigns an age [...]
By Sound News reporter Tye Rogerson
The local, organic Seattleite shoppers: You’ll never learn all their names. But their faces all topped with an array of pepper, garlic and herb colored hair-all echo the preferred alternative, that there is something better than the sliding-door Safeway across the street. And today is no different at the University [...]
By Sound News Reporter Clea Hersperger
Millions of pounds of electronics are tossed in the trash each year, where they decompose and can leak harmful toxics into Puget Sound. A new, free, recycling program is part of the state’s solution to protect the health of our environment.
E-Cycle Washington is a new program providing responsible recycling [...]
