February 13, 2016

Update 3:30 p.m. Cliff Mass has posted here: Atmospheric River Fest: A Very Wet Week. “Now, some of you will want to know about snow. Don’t ask. The air will be relatively warm and the snow levels will be around 6000 ft. Rain will fall on the lower ski areas, like Snoqualmie and Stevens, but

February 12, 2016

Just before 3 p.m. Brooke emails: Just saw a loose Australian Shepherd running around at the park. When I tried to go up to him he took off running across Roosevelt and headed toward Northeast 85th Street. A few minutes later Rick emailed to Nextdoor Northgate/Maple Leaf: Witnessed a middle-aged Caucasian woman w/glasses and green

February 11, 2016

More details are now available on this incident from a week ago: Armed man arrested at park outside QFC, Northgate mosque. It could very easily have ended differently. To recap, police arrested a man with two pistols after afternoon calls from the Idris Mosque, at Northeast Northgate Way and 15th Avenue Northeast, and Victory Creek

February 9, 2016

Tami emails to point out a Maple Leaf house (on Thornton Creek) is featured in The New York Times. “I never would have thought it,” she says. It’s part of a standing Times feature on “What you can buy…” that compares houses across the country with approximately the same price point. Separately, the online real

February 7, 2016

Mostly cloudy, calm. High near 51 degrees. Rain returns … Wednesday night.

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