December 25, 2011

Update 12:50 p.m.: City Light now reports over 18,000 customers without power. Including 4,500 in Maple Leaf’s northeast corner, stretching into Pinehurst. We’ve updated the map at right, too. —————————————————————————- On this Christmas Day, the official Seattle City Light map of known power outages doesn’t show Maple Leaf - but it’s lying. We know power

December 24, 2011

And Happy Holidays from Maple Leaf Life. (And McKay.)

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December 21, 2011

Karen emails this afternoon: My neighbor and I just found two boxes that were pilfered on the sidewalk (we live at 12th Avenue Northeast and Northeast 88th Street)…one of them meant to be delivered to a 65th and 16th address, not sure about the other one. Addresses still intact on one box and a tracking

December 20, 2011

Maple Leaf might not be as hip and cool as Seattle neighborhoods like Ballard and Capitol Hill, but hip and cool still take up plenty of real estate in our north-of-the-Ship-Canal neighborhood. Case in point, 20Six FRESH, a streetwear company run out of the Maple Leaf home of Billy Thompson that just launched this month.

December 19, 2011

By Mwiza Kalisa In most of Maple Leaf sidewalks end around Northeast 85th Street, but a new stretch of sidewalk going in on Lake City Way this spring proves there is still hope that the North End will someday become more pedestrian-friendly. The new sidewalk, bridging a span of Lake City Way from the staircase