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August 19, 2012
Two items from our overnight email: Calvin reports numerous gunshots heard around 11 p.m. in Pinehurst, just northeast of Maple Leaf. “When I called in to the police they stated they’d heard several reports about it. I heard twenty to thirty shots in all.” Anybody have more news on this? On a brighter note, Elise …
August 16, 2012
Saying that speeding drivers during school zone hours outside Olympic View Elementary School are among the fifth worst in the city, the Maple Leaf Community Council emails that the city intends to install a radar-operated camera to catch speeders along Fifth Avenue Northeast. These units are like the automatic red light cameras, but focused on …
August 16, 2012
Celebrate the 2021 arrival of light rail to Northgate Station tomorrow at a groundbreaking of the Northgate Link Extension, from 3:30-4:30 p.m. at the former QFC at Northeast 66th Street and Roosevelt Way Northeast. A community kick-off celebration follows from 4:30-7:30 p.m., featuring: Live music by Roosevelt High School Jazz, Nu Klezmer Army, the Illicit Jug …
August 15, 2012
You’ve probably figured out by now that avoiding Northgate is your best way to avoid major traffic woes this summer because of the NE Northgate Way and Fifth Avenue NE Intersection and Pedestrian Improvements Project. That’s not ending anytime soon. Tomorrow the second phase begins, as the Seattle Department of Transportation builds a second left-hand …
August 15, 2012
By now you may have heard of the rampaging raccoon bands attacking dogs and their walkers at North Seattle Community College. Our news partner The Seattle Times has the story here. At the end of July, the college posted some 30 signs that read “BEWARE OF AGGRESSIVE RACCOON PACK” and hired a pest controller to …