Light up the big dark with holiday lights and WildLanterns
Seattle Now
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4.7 • 670 Ratings
🗓️ 18 December 2024
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
When it gets this dark outside, our region knows how to keep it light. ‘Tis the season for festive lights and light shows.
Today we’ll walk through some of the season’s sparkling traditions, and stroll through one of the biggest: the Woodland Park Zoo’s Wild Lanterns installation.
Read the list of the Seattle Public Library’s most popular books here
Read more on the Bait Shop’s Holiday Light Show here
Info on one West Seattle home’s holiday lights
Seattle’s Candy Cane Lane information can be found here
Find more info on WildLanterns here
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| 0:00.0 | These days, there's so much news. |
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| 0:26.5 | Hey, good morning. I'm Paige Browning. It's Wednesday. This is Seattle now. When it gets this |
| 0:33.1 | dark outside, our region knows how to keep it light. Tis the season for festive lights and light shows. |
| 0:40.3 | Today we'll walk through some of the season's sparkling traditions and stroll through one of the biggest, the Woodland Park Zoo's Wild Lanterns installation. |
| 0:49.3 | But first, let's get you caught up. |
| 0:53.3 | If you needed another reason to rethink driving a car, But first, let's get you caught up. |
| 0:59.3 | If you needed another reason to rethink driving a car, here's a new one. |
| 1:03.0 | Parking violation tickets are going up January 1st. Right now, most parking tickets cost $47. |
| 1:06.2 | That will go up to $69, beginning in the new year. |
| 1:09.8 | A sports note, if pickleball is your sport, the largest |
| 1:13.6 | pickleball facility in all of Washington State will open in South Seattle next year. The Puget Sound |
| 1:19.3 | Business Journal reports it's a 100,000 square foot facility. Pickleball courts will take over what |
| 1:25.2 | used to be a Pepsi bottling plant. |
| 1:34.0 | It'll have 26 courts run by the company Side Out, which also has a pickleball facility in Mukletio. |
| 1:37.6 | And have you ever wondered what other Seattleites are reading? |
| 1:43.0 | The Seattle Public Library just published its most checked out list of 2024. |
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