The year in review: Who's in and who's out

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Harry Stonecipher was waiting in the wings after Boeing Chief Executive Phil Condit resigned.

Challengers Brita Butler-Wall, Darlene Flynn and Sally Soriano expelled Seattle School Board incumbents Nancy Waldman, Steve Brown and Barbara Schlag Peterson at the polls.

The Seattle City Council welcomed Jean Godden, Tom Rasmussen and David Della as Judy Nicastro, Margaret Pageler and Heidi Wills were escorted out by voters.

Boeing named Everett as headquarters for the new 7E7 jetliner, but the days of building the 757 in Renton seem numbered.

The Seattle Art Museum secured a Van Gogh exhibit for 2004, and the Museum of Flight landed the Concorde, but displays went dark at the financially troubled Bellevue Art Museum.

Raj Manhas assumed the role of Seattle schools superintendent after Joseph Olchefske quit under fire.

Bob Ferguson used door-to-door campaigning to topple Cynthia Sullivan from the Metropolitan King County Council.

Steve Montgomery replaced the irreplaceable Pat O'Day as radio announcer for the Seafair unlimited hydroplane race.

The four-star Fairmont chain took over management of The Olympic from the five-star Four Seasons, changing the cosmos in Seattle's luxury-hotel universe.

Outright stock grants supplanted stock options as Microsoft changed its operating system for compensating employees.

Bon-Macy's got hitched at the hyphen as the department store's maiden name, The Bon Marché, got scrapped.

Bill Mohler now guides KCTS-TV as president and chief executive after the Burnie Clark era ended with static over financial mismanagement.

Starbucks swallowed up Seattle's Best and Torrefazione Italia but retained the brand names so it didn't look like it.

Jorge Carrasco accepted the nomination to become superintendent of Seattle City Light, a job that zapped plenty from his forced-out predecessor, Gary Zarker.

The show goes on at Seattle International Film Festival, with Helen Loveridge succeeding departed co-founder Darryl Macdonald as director.

Charles Mitchell graduated from Seattle Central Community College president to chancellor of the Seattle Community College District, succeeding the retired Peter Ku.

West Seattle and Issaquah high schools adopted Wildcats and Eagles as their respective new mascots to replace Indians.

Joe Brennan brandishes the gavel as SeaTac mayor after Kathy Gehring-Waters pleaded guilty to stealing from an elderly neighbor.

David Boardman made the news after being named managing editor of The Seattle Times, replacing the retiring Alex MacLeod.

Other notable disappearances

In heaven: The Cloud Room at the Camlin Hotel

Shipwrecked: Doc Freeman's marine-supply store

Converse All-Star no more: Chubby & Tubby

Don't bother: The 2004 state presidential primary

It was the water: Former Olympia and Miller brewery in Tumwater

Fished out: Kokanee salmon run in Lake Sammamish

Holy mackerel: Koraku restaurant in Chinatown International District

Lost corner store: Aldrich's Market in Port Townsend

Timmmmberrrr! Weyerhaeuser mill in Snoqualmie

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