July 5, 2012

Jill Killen, owner of Cloud City Coffee, and now of El Diablo Coffee Company on Queen Anne, at the Capucas Coffee Plantation in Honduras last March. Photo courtesy Cloud City Coffee. Maple Leaf’s Cloud City Coffee now has a sister store on Queen Anne - El Diablo Coffee Company. The Queen Anne coffee shop was

July 5, 2012

Jill Killen, owner of Cloud City Coffee, and now of El Diablo Coffee Company on Queen Anne, at the Capucas Coffee Plantation in Honduras last March. Photo courtesy Cloud City Coffee. Maple Leaf’s Cloud City Coffee now has a sister store on Queen Anne - El Diablo Coffee Company. The Queen Anne coffee shop was

July 5, 2012

Ruth Williams, president of the Thornton Creek Alliance and Beaver Pond Natural Area forest steward, has sent a plea out to fellow urban environmentalists about the removal of 18 healthy street trees from Northeast Northgate Way and Fifth Avenue Northeast, starting as early as July 7. She says the trees, which have become big enough to

July 4, 2012

It’s an Independence Day tradition now in Maple Leaf. Neighbors close Northeast 95th Street between Roosevelt Way Northeast and 12th Avenue Northeast, and throw a block-long parade. “This is something two boys on the block started a few years and now has become a yearly tradition!” emails Julie. The parade went off at 10 a.m.,

July 2, 2012

Several items of interest to Maple Leaf neighbors: Northgate is much in the news of late. In addition to the Northgate light rail station, there’s debate over the Northgate Apartments, 207 units just north of the mall next to Interstate 5 that now provide affordable housing. The owners want to redevelop what will be prime