The Greenwood Neighborhood Service Center at 8515 Greenwood Ave. N. would close under Mayor Mike McGinn’s proposed 2011-2012 budget, announced earlier today. Six of the city’s non-payment Neighborhood Service Centers, and the West Seattle payment and...
The wading pool at Sandel Park is a casualty of the mayor’s proposed budget for 2011-2012. This morning, Mayor McGinn announced that seven wading pools will remain closed next summer including the one at Sandel. To see more on the mayor’s proposed budget,...
Native Phinney resident Peter Ringold and business partner Patrick McCredie are opening a new restaurant in Wallingford. Satay, at 1711 N. 45th St., will have a menu inspired by Malaysian street food. Satay will open in the space where Avila was for less than a year....
The Neighborhood Farmers Market Alliance (NFMA) promotes the use of Electronic Benefits Transfer (EBT) cards (food stamps) at area farmers markets. Now, NFMA is giving EBT users $10 in Market Bucks per day when they purchase at least $10 with their EBT cards. The...
Here’s what’s making headlines in nearby neighborhoods. The city’s Neighborhood Street Fund will pay for a walkway along 13th Avenue NW between NW 90th Street and Holman Road, with a spur on NW 90th Street from 13th Avenue NW to 14 Avenue NW in Crown Hill. Two Ballard...
The pedestrian bridge at Carkeek Park will be closed on Thursday, Sept. 30, for final touch-up painting on the rails and deck. In February, Seattle Parks and Recreation and Seattle Department of Transportation made minor structural improvements, and cleaned and...
Always plenty to do in Phinney-Greenwood and beyond this weekend. The Phinney Farmers Market runs from 3-7 p.m. Friday in the lower parking lot of the Phinney Neighborhood Association, 6532 Phinney Ave. N., with dozens of vendors selling fresh produce, meat, eggs,...
Dozens of Phinney and Greenwood restaurants are once again donating a portion of their sales from one night to benefit the Phinney Neighborhood Association soup kitchens. The 8th annual “Phabulous Phinney Pig Out” is Thursday, Oct. 14. In collaboration...
Update: SeattleDude posted in MyBallard’s forum that Obie has been found. SeattleDude posted in MyBallard’s forum that his dog was stolen Tuesday evening. He writes: I look like the picture to the left, I was stolen out of my yard tonight, four men in a...
Eyes on the City, an optometry practice in Sammamish, is expanding to Lower Phinney/Ballard, to a brand new building at 603 NW 65th St. Dr. Leslie Craddock will be seeing patients at the Ballard location at least two days a week. When I called her Sammamish office...
