Viewlands Elementary School, 10525 3rd Ave. NW., was closed a couple years ago, but will reopen this fall with new principal Lisa Escobar. From Seattle Public Schools: Escobar, a Seattle Public Schools administrator since 2004, has been a principal at Nova, The Center...
Our news partners The Seattle Times reports today that Phinney Ridge actor Mark Chamberlin died on Tuesday just as he was being released from Harborview Medical Center. According to The Times, Chamberlin, 55, had been found on Sunday lying next to his bicycle on...
The City of Seattle has announced an online survey to determine residents’ public safety concerns in their neighborhoods, as well as on public transportation. The survey was created by a team of graduate students at the Evans School of Public Affairs at the University...
The Ballard High School music program presents a night of jazz on Saturday, April 30, with the first ever “Ballard Jazz Gala.” The event will be held at the Blue Ridge Community Clubhouse (10040 15th Ave. N.) from 6-10 p.m. The beginning of the evening will be a...
King County’s Aging and Disability Services (ADS) wants community input for its new Area Plan on Aging, which will guide its work from 2012-2015. ADS is a division of the Seattle Human Services Department, and works with King County and United Way to improve the...
The Northwest EcoBuilding Guild is hosting the Seattle Green Home Tour on April 16-17, including five Phinney Ridge homes. Homes on the tour highlight various green building, remodeling and retrofitting techniques, such as Net Zero Energy use, Passive House standards...
A group of Ballard/Phinney moms decided to host an informal fun run through Ballard and Discovery Park last weekend, and donated entry fees to a Seattle-based charity called One by One. Twenty runners and six volunteers showed up for the five-mile and 13-mile routes,...
Taproot Theatre actor Mark Chamberlin, a Phinney Ridge resident who just finished a run as the lead Odysseus in “The Odyssey,” died after a weekend bicycle accident, The Seattle Times reports. This was posted on the Taproot Facebook page: We’re...
The NW District Council is meeting Wednesday night at the Greenwood Senior Center, 525 N. 85th St., to discuss Seattle’s Transit Master Plan and to go over proposals to the Neighborhood Projects Fund (NPF). Each of the city’s 13 District Councils is charged with...
As school assignments start arriving in the mail, Seattle Public Schools has released its transportation zone plan for bus and walk zones for the 2011-12 school year. From the SPS website: In the new transportation plan, transportation eligibility for attendance area...