Piper’s Creek gets its start in the north end of Greenwood and flows to Puget Sound through Carkeek Park. Learn more about how you can do your part to improve the creek and protect the Sound at Summer Sundays In The Piper’s Creek Watershed. Bill Malatinsky...
Updated: More than a dozen fire units responded to a fully-involved house fire on 5511 2nd Ave. NW on Phinney Ridge at 7:40 p.m. Friday evening. As I drove to the scene from Ballard, I could see smoke billowing up from over a mile away. (Photo by My Ballard reader...
This just in: Divers have found at least 10 more metal spikes in Green Lake. Volunteer divers from Virginia Mason Center for Hyperbaric Medicine found the spikes a short time ago. Crimestoppers of Puget Sound are now offering a $1,000 reward for information leading...
Our neighbors to the west in Crown Hill are holding a big rummage sale this Saturday. More than 30 households are set to participate in the event organized by the Crown Hill Neighborhood Association. The sale runs 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Here’s a map and list of...
This is bizarre. Just a few days after a monkey died at the Woodland Park Zoo from congestive heart failure, there’s word that a 7-year-old gazelle died after being attacked by another animal inside the popular African Savanna exhibit. “The accidental...
While the parade got off to a little bit of a late start, a crowd of thousands lining Greenwood Avenue and 85th patiently waited to see this annual Seafair tradition. It started off with the kids parade: Followed by the Seattle Police Motorcycle Drill Team, which gets...
Billing themselves as “everything dog,” Zak & Zoe is moving into the space formerly occupied by the consignment portion of Rising Stars children’s store on the corner of Greenwood Avenue and NW 74th St. A clerk at Rising Stars told us that an increase in rent led...
Greenwood resident Andrea Okomski and neighborhood activist Kate Martin took Seattle Transportation to task on its efforts so far on pedestrian safety Tuesday night. Okomski’s son Joe was hit by a car four years ago when he crossed a four-lane road. Joe, 19, is...
The full Seattle City Council is expected to vote Monday on a proposal to charge shoppers 20 cents for paper or plastic bags. If it’s enacted, Seattle would become one of the first large cities to push the use of reusable bags. The proposal also includes a ban...
