Next Tuesday, Aug. 4, is the national Night Out program. Neighbors everywhere are encouraged to have block parties to get to know their neighbors and coordinate efforts to keep their neighborhoods safe. Here’s a picture from one of last year’s block...
Yes, that’s just stating the obvious, I know. Temperatures are expected to reach record highs today, so let’s help each other out and find out the best air-conditioned places to spend the day. We don’t have time to call every business in...
If you’d like to plant a tree in your parking strip, the Seattle Department of Neighborhoods’ Neighborhood Matching Fund (NMF) is accepting applications until Aug. 21 for this year’s Tree Fund. Just organize a group of your neighbors to plant street...
Anyone interested in participating in the international PARKing Day event should attend an informational and training event from 6:30-7:30 p.m. on Thursday, Aug. 6, at the Officer’s Club in the Armory at Lake Union Park, 860 Terry Ave N. We will discuss how to...
All those trucks and small torn up strips of Greenwood Avenue that you saw in front of Ken’s Market today was part of Ken’s expansion project. A worker told me they were installing a bigger water pipe. According to a note posted on Ken’s windows, the...
If you like to poke around the neighborhood and see all kinds of interesting things, then you might want to participate in the fourth annual Gumshoe 5K Walk, from Aug. 7-16. It’s a fundraiser for the Greenwood Senior Center. (The Gumshoe is a PhinneyWood...
Bambu Organic Salon at 7406 Greenwood Avenue is moving to a bigger space in Fremont. Owner Stacy Yawman tells us that business is good and she needed a bigger space. Also, the building housing her salon, as well as Rising Stars children’s store and GreenWorks...
Taproot Theatre’s Road Company will perform “Camp Super Friend” at the New York International Fringe Festival, FringeNYC, in August. Left to right: Laura Bannister, Adrienne Littleton, Peter Nolte and Solomon Davis. Photo by Josiah Wallace. “Camp...
The Phinney-Greenwood City Fruit Tree Harvest program needs a temporary loan of garage space in the neighborhood to store an orchard ladder and fruit picking tools for the fruit harvest season, which is from now through early October. The program is mapping all the...
Marty wrote us to say that three police cars were in her alley between N 80th and N 81st between Greenwood and 1st NW this morning for more than an hour. I talked to one of the officers in the alley. Someone had reported a car parked in their alley place; the car (a...
