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February 12, 2011
Tom Maxwell comes up the hill. First work party of the season at the Maple Leaf Community Garden, and boy, did we get lucky. The three-hour session ended at 12:30 p.m. The rain and wind arrived within the half-hour. Before, that, though, just a few raindrops and some actual sun were on order. The dozen …
February 12, 2011
Tom Maxwell comes up the hill. First work party of the season at the Maple Leaf Community Garden, and boy, did we get lucky. The three-hour session ended at 12:30 p.m. The rain and wind arrived within the half-hour. Before, that, though, just a few raindrops and some actual sun were on order. The dozen …
February 11, 2011
Periodically we’ll round up items of interest to Maple Leaf residents, even if they’re just nearby. (Besides, we’ve wanted to write “nearby” in a headline ever since the fine local news site Crosscut improbably stuck “nearby” on its masthead.) This evening the friendly black cat we wrote about earlier will be up for adoption, along …
February 11, 2011
Update: King County prosecutors on Feb. 11 charged John Martin Kessler, 62 years old and a customer at the pharmacy for about a decade, with this robbery. The court papers also state that on Feb. 8, a day before this robbery, he tried but failed to rob the Chase Bank at 1501 Fourth Ave. According …
February 10, 2011
We’ve been feeling guilty. It’s been weeks since we’ve sat down and really wrestled with the police crime map to round up neighborhood crimes. But earlier today we picked up a comment from New In Maple Leaf that questions whether we SHOULD track crime here: It seems as if ALL this blog discusses is robberies …