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December 21, 2015
The Winter Solstice is this evening, and for the second year a Solstice Tree has returned to Maple Leaf Reservoir Park. It has lights, decorations, and an invitation to neighbors to bring ornaments to fully trim the tree. Celebrate the return of light!
...December 20, 2015
Monday update: The snow has officially made its way into the icons: More good news: After the (possible) snow: Christmas Day should be partly sunny, 41 38 degrees. —————————————————————– Fact: Maple Leaf is the third-highest hill in Seattle – 466 feet outside the Blue Saucer on Roosevelt Way Northeast. Fact: The current National Weather Service …
December 15, 2015
‘Tis the Week Before Christmas, and it occurs to us that local merchants could be a good source for holiday gifts. For starters, there’s Maya Radocz’s hot shop just off 15th Avenue Northeast at Northeast 89th Street. She’s been blowing glass right here in Maple Leaf for years. Here’s our piece from 2014. Dmitri Carter …
December 11, 2015
Karen emails to point out the seattlepi.com has this house as the centerpiece on its home web page. (We don’t think she’s a fan.) There’s a raft of photos from inside the $1.4 million home on Eighth Avenue Northeast at Northeast 92nd Street. The real estate listing is here.
...December 10, 2015
Ten minutes. That’s how long it took three police squad cars to arrive after a neighbor reported mail thieves in action. Got them, too. From an email this morning: Yesterday afternoon I noticed two individuals (Caucasian female and Caucasian male, roughly mid 20s to early 30s) peering at homes, but otherwise just walking leisurely down …