by PhinneyWood | Dec 19, 2013 | PhinneyWood Neighborhood
Seattle Public Utilities has lots of friendly reminders about how to dispose of garbage, recycling and yard waste this time of year. There’s no solid waste collection on Christmas Day. Customers whose normal pickup days are Wednesday, Thursday or Friday, will have...
by Chris Maykut | Dec 18, 2013 | PhinneyWood Neighborhood
Update Thursday: Here’s the link to Q13 Fox’s news segment on the stolen items recovered. Update: Det. Coblantz was interviewed by Q13 today for a story airing tonight during the 9 p.m. and 10 p.m. newscasts. Their video will show the remaining stolen...
by Chris Maykut | Dec 18, 2013 | PhinneyWood Neighborhood
City Librarian Marcellus Turner is hosting a series of “community conversations” throughout the city to ask Seattle Public Library patrons how the library system can better serve them in the future. Turner will host a meeting from 5:30-6:45 p.m. on Monday, Jan. 13, at...
by Chris Maykut | Dec 18, 2013 | PhinneyWood Neighborhood
Community-supported projects have three opportunities to receive money from Seattle Department of Neighborhoods’ Neighborhood Matching Fund in 2014. The NMF program has staff to advise community groups on ways to develop successful applications and projects....
by Chris Maykut | Dec 17, 2013 | PhinneyWood Neighborhood
Community groups have until Feb. 3 to apply for the City of Seattle’s Neighborhood Park and Street Fund, which helps fund improvements to neighborhood parks and streets. The NPSF can be used for projects valued up to $90,000. Examples of park projects include...
by Chris Maykut | Dec 17, 2013 | PhinneyWood Neighborhood
Amber tells us she was walking on North 85th Street and Fremont Avenue North early Monday evening when she saw four or five boys on the sidewalk threatening a woman pushing a stroller. (She) had to go around them just as I was turning onto Linden street. It was at...
by PhinneyWood | Dec 17, 2013 | PhinneyWood Neighborhood
The community has rallied around a Greenwood family of three that lost nearly everything in a house fire on Dec. 2. An online fund set up to help the family had an initial goal of raising $10,000. Today it stands at $12,334. And Phinney Neighborhood Association...
by Chris Maykut | Dec 16, 2013 | PhinneyWood Neighborhood
The 2nd annual Ugly Christmas Sweater Pub Crawl through Phinney Ridge and Greenwood on Dec. 7 raised $972 and more than 100 pounds of canned/boxed food for the Greenwood Food Bank. From organizer Tim Arnot of Tim’s Tavern: A special thanks to everyone who...
by Chris Maykut | Dec 16, 2013 | PhinneyWood Neighborhood
Kevin tells us he found meat stuffed with rat poison on the trails at Carkeek Park on Saturday. The piece of meat he found was on the Clay Pit Trail, on the south side of Pipers Creek. He said it appears someone was trying to poison dogs. The piece of meat was about...
by Chris Maykut | Dec 16, 2013 | PhinneyWood Neighborhood
Tonight is the first Design Review Early Design Guidance meeting for the proposed development at North 68th Street and Greenwood Avenue North. The meeting is at 8 p.m. at the Ballard Community Center, 6020 28th Ave. NW, in the Multi-Purpose Room. Design Guidance...