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July 24, 2013
Seattle Police this morning said they have arrested a suspect in a shoplifting/robbery incident at the J.C. Penny store at Northgate Mall on Saturday. They believe he is the same suspect who shoplifted $800 in alcohol from a store on Northwest Market Street in Ballard earlier this month, police said. In both cases the suspect …
July 23, 2013
The fourth annual Spoke and Food, an event created and organized by Maple Leaf residents Garett and Heather Slettebak, returns from 5:30-9:30 p.m. July 30 and again includes a stop at Judy Fu’s Snappy Dragon, 8917 Roosevelt Way N.E. Participants are asked to bike to one (or more!) of the 20 host restaurants participating in …
July 22, 2013
The buckets of cash that Seattle’s school-zone speed cameras are raking in – $3 million in their first half-year of operation – will now only be spent on school-related projects. (Editor: see comment by Lisa, below.) That includes the 6,000 tickets issued through June by Maple Leaf’s cameras, on Fifth Avenue Northeast outside Olympic View …
July 22, 2013
At past Maple Leaf Summer Socials, Maple Leaf Life has asked its neighbors what they love about the community and posted photos of their response. But this year, we’re hoping to do something different at the annual event on Wednesday, July 31, at Olympic View Elementary School, starting at 6 p.m. The new theme of …
July 17, 2013
Periodically – “or whenever news breaks” – we update readers on crimes that affect the neighborhood. Periodically, neighbors complain about reading crime news. Periodically, somebody says we have, comparatively, a lot of crime in Maple Leaf. We don’t think so, and have spoken to it repeatedly, most directly a couple of years ago. Now a …