October 19, 2010

Jan e-mailed us to say the Post Office at Northgate, 11036 Eighth Ave. N.E., has a sign up that it was burglarized Monday. That post office is the closest to Maple Leaf, and the chief victims were area residents who use the PO Boxes there. According to the police report, the burglars forced their way

October 19, 2010

Crews today were busy marking up Roosevelt Way Northeast for three new crosswalks at Northeast 90th, 92nd and 97th streets. But at the same time, another crew was busy removing a handful of the parking spaces next to the Legend House apartments at 9720 Roosevelt Way N.E. to provide safer access for pedestrians heading to and from the new crosswalk. Previously, the nine parking

October 19, 2010

Unless the budget changes, three of the seven crime prevention coordinators in Seattle will lose their jobs. As for the remaining four coordinators, including the one serving Maple Leaf, no one is sure if they’ll be forced to cut back on their hours or cover larger areas to fill the holes. One highly visible result

October 19, 2010

A free recycling event - including electronics like VCRs, television sets and computers - is being hosted in Maple Leaf on Sunday afternoon. Sponsored by the Washington Association of Churches, the event is being hosted by Olympia View Community Church, 425 N.E. 95th St. Trucks in the church parking lot will accept recyclables Sunday, Oct. 24,

October 18, 2010

Seattle City Light has been in the neighborhood for some months now, trimming trees away from power lines before another La Nina cold winter hits. Do they go too far? Jon K. writes: “Understandably trees need to be trimmed to prevent fires/injury/outages. In the past the city of Seattle has trimmed our very old 95th