Wave Goodbye
This is your last chance to ride the Riptide or go over Lumberjack Falls. Wild Waves Theme & Water Park has announced that 2026 will be its final season serving families in Federal Way. This means the Seattle area will be without an outdoor theme park for the first time in decades. We hope the condos and subdivisions that go up in its place have names like Pacific Plunge and Soaring Eagle.
Angry Birds
Speaking of eagles, a bystander at Lincoln Park in West Seattle came across an unlikely sight on a recent Sunday: two injured bald eagles laying on the ground, one with the other’s head in its talons. “This was a fight to the death,” Joven Yount told The Seattle Times. And for one of the pair, who had to be euthanized by the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife, it was indeed.
Flare Thee Well
WA 64, the latest apple developed by the folks at Washington State University, finally has a name: Sunflare. A hybrid of the Pink Lady and Honeycrisp, the Sunflare won’t hit supermarkets till 2029-ish. A few early testers have tried it out in Pullman, but the rest of us will have to wait.
No Good Deed
A Seattle man suspected of robbing a BECU branch and a Columbia Bank branch on consecutive days was apprehended after the note he passed a teller demanding cash and stating that he was armed was found in a changing room at the Capitol Hill Goodwill branch. An employee called 911, and police used security cameras to track down the suspect (and the cash).
Editor’s note: This list is updated quarterly with news items of questionable import but indubitable resonance in the Seattle zeitgeist. If you have any odd local anecdotes to share that haven’t made headlines yet, feel free to send them to [email protected].