by Chris Maykut | Aug 27, 2011 | PhinneyWood Neighborhood
Seattle Public Schools is inviting students and their families, along with teachers and staff, to a special party to kick off the school year. The “Celebration of Learning” is from 4-6 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 30, at the Seattle Center, in the Fisher Pavilion. Interim...
by Chris Maykut | Aug 26, 2011 | PhinneyWood Neighborhood
Woodland Park Zoo is admitting all military personnel and emergency services providers free of charge on “Heroes Weekend,” Sept. 10-11, in honor of the 10th anniversary of 9/11. The offer applies to all active and retired U.S. military, police, firefighters and...
by Chris Maykut | Aug 26, 2011 | PhinneyWood Neighborhood
826 Seattle, the nonprofit writing and tutoring center hidden inside the Greenwood Space Travel Supply Co., is kicking off a fundraiser today to raise money to provide healthy snacks to students. Once school starts, 826 Seattle provides one-on-one after-school...
by Chris Maykut | Aug 26, 2011 | PhinneyWood Neighborhood
There’s a little something for everyone this weekend in Greenwood and Phinney Ridge. Here are a few highlights; you can always check our Events calendar for more. The Phinney Farmers Market is from 3-7 p.m. Friday in the upper parking lot of the Phinney Neighborhood...
by Chris Maykut | Aug 25, 2011 | PhinneyWood Neighborhood
Artist Perri Lynch is in the midst of creating a free-standing stone and glass sculpture for the new Fire Station 21 that will incorporate LED lights that will change color when the firefighters are called out on an emergency. Lynch says the stones and glass sections...
by Chris Maykut | Aug 24, 2011 | PhinneyWood Neighborhood
If you’ll be driving along 85th Street today, take note that traffic near the intersection of 6th Avenue NW is narrowed to one lane in each direction due to utility work. And 6th Avenue NW is blocked off with cones, so no turning off or onto 6th.
by Chris Maykut | Aug 24, 2011 | PhinneyWood Neighborhood
Kim wrote to us about a possible burglar who tried really hard to make it look like she belonged at the second-floor apartment in Phinney Ridge: I live…on the second floor, when i got home from work i noticed that my window screen was removed and sitting inside my...
by Chris Maykut | Aug 24, 2011 | PhinneyWood Neighborhood
Elementary and K-8 students in Seattle Public Schools will follow new transportation zones when school starts two weeks from today. The new transportation plan is designed to make bus rides shorter, saving $4 million by using fewer buses and less gas. Bus rides will...
by Chris Maykut | Aug 24, 2011 | PhinneyWood Neighborhood
Summer Mohrlang from the Green Bean Coffeehouse tells us that the coffee shop had a partial power outage on its block at 86th and Greenwood at about 12:30 p.m. Tuesday. The coffee shop had to shut down at 2 p.m. because the espresso machine wasn’t working, but the...
by Chris Maykut | Aug 24, 2011 | PhinneyWood Neighborhood
PEPS (Program for Early Parent Support) is starting a new location of its Baby Peppers group for parents of infants aged 5-12 months. The weekly parenting support group will meet at the Phinney Neighborhood Association from 12-1:30 p.m. from Oct. 6 – Dec. 22. Cost is...