by Chris Maykut | Jan 24, 2011 | PhinneyWood Neighborhood
A standing-room-only crowd filled the Greenwood Masonic Lodge on Sunday afternoon to thank Beth Pflug for her two decades of service as the Coordinator of the Northwest Neighborhood Service Center in Greenwood. Mayor Mike McGinn addresses the crowd. As part of her...
by Chris Maykut | Jan 24, 2011 | PhinneyWood Neighborhood
Jennifer tells us that someone threw a brick at her car windshield in Phinney Ridge early Sunday morning. Just wanted you to know that sometime last night (after 12pm, when I went to sleep), someone threw a brick multiple times at my car windshield. And then left the...
by Chris Maykut | Jan 23, 2011 | PhinneyWood Neighborhood
Salmon Bay Physical Therapy is opening on Monday at 6500 6th Ave. NW, Suite A, right next to The Tin Hat. Therapists will cover a variety of injuries and conditions: motor vehicle accidents; running and bicycling accidents; headaches; musculoskeletal pain in the neck,...
by Chris Maykut | Jan 22, 2011 | PhinneyWood Neighborhood
The city’s Office of Economic Development is asking businesses to host an electric vehicle (EV) charging station for customers. Charlie Cunniff, with the OED’s Seattle Climate Partnership, told a recent Greenwood-Phinney Chamber of Commerce meeting that any business...
by Chris Maykut | Jan 21, 2011 | PhinneyWood Neighborhood
We heard from several readers about a scary incident late Wednesday night which brought out the King County SWAT team. According to neighbors, the SWAT team set off concussion grenades at a house on the corner of North 89th Street and Linden Avenue North. One neighbor...
by Chris Maykut | Jan 21, 2011 | PhinneyWood Neighborhood
Potholes have been on the minds of many of us this winter, as the snowstorms opened up a bunch of doozies. The city normally has a backlog of about 200 potholes to fill, but they’re currently dealing with a list of about 1,000. Tonight at 7 p.m. on the Seattle...
by Chris Maykut | Jan 21, 2011 | PhinneyWood Neighborhood
The Shop Agora, a Mediterranean specialty store at 6417-A Phinney Ave. N., is adding a second store on Capitol Hill. The new store, to be called The Shop Agora on 15th, will be much larger than the current store in Phinney Ridge. Co-owner Nikos Spiliopoulos says the...
by Chris Maykut | Jan 20, 2011 | PhinneyWood Neighborhood
Greenwood Market has signed a lease extension through June 1, 2012. The market’s lease had been set to expire in October 2011, but Greenwood Market Store Director Patty Nolan tells us they have signed an extension. Neighboring Fred Meyer plans a...
by Chris Maykut | Jan 20, 2011 | PhinneyWood Neighborhood
Three Phinney Ridge businesses are changing things up a bit. El Chupacabra, at 6711 Greenwood Ave. N., is expanding to West Seattle. Our friends at the West Seattle Blog report that El Chupacabra is hoping to open its Alki Avenue location in mid-March. Tarah Jade, a...
by Chris Maykut | Jan 20, 2011 | PhinneyWood Neighborhood
Seattle Public Utilities crews are making repairs to a broken water main in the right curb lane of eastbound North 85th Street, just west of Greenwood Avenue North. Signage is set up directing traffic around and past the work zone. The emergency repair work may last...
