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February 4, 2016
Seattle Police this morning released this statement about an incident at the Idris Mosque, at Northeast Northgate Way and 15th Avenue Northeast, and Victory Creek Park, adjacent to QFC: Police arrested a man armed with a stolen gun, a pellet gun and a baseball bat after he confronted two other men outside a mosque Tuesday …
January 30, 2016
Update on Mardi Gras: The Seattle Times has an opinion piece here. It’s not supportive of Pronto. Update Feb. 4: The Stranger has a Pronto story here. The Seattle Bike Blog has one here. Update Feb. 3: Josh Feit over at PublicCola has an update on Tuesday’s hearing on Pronto rental bikes. Bottom line: Not …
January 27, 2016
Update 7 a.m. Thursday: Rain in the past 24 hours at Maple Leaf Life South- 1.33 inches. Top wind speed so far: 24 mph at 5:15 a.m. KOMO has an update here. We are under a special weather statement: “HEAVY RAINFALL WILL LEAD TO AN INCREASED THREAT OF LANDSLIDES IN WESTERN WASHINGTON.” “Major Atmospheric River …
January 25, 2016
Maple Leaf’s Scarlet-fronted Parakeets are back. Or at least one is – on 12th Avenue Northeast just north of Northeast 89th Street, at 8 a.m. We last posted on the feral flock in February 2015. We first wrote about them in 2010: The flock has been around for decades, at least since the early 1990s, …
January 21, 2016
Update Jan. 23: Jim has emailed directions for group mailboxes. We’ve posted them in comments. A neighbor emails: I’m writing to report that mail theft continues to happen in Maple Leaf. The latest was on Northeast 96th Street, between 15th Avenue Northeast and Roosevelt Way Northeast, and it happened between Tuesday 1/19 and Wednesday 1/20. …