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April 21, 2010
Don’t forget to put out your garbage tonight! Although a strike by Teamsters Local 174 garbage and yard waste drivers started at 10:30 a.m. today, most Maple Leaf residents (roughly from Interstate 5 to Lake City Way and from Northeast Northgate Way to Northeast 75th Street) are actually serviced by a different contract, CleanScapes, which isn’t part of …
April 20, 2010
Seattle Public Utilities is giving away high-efficiency toilets to qualifying homeowners. You are a homeowner with a Seattle Public Utilities account. You currently live in the home you own. Your existing toilets were manufactured before 1994. You meet income guidelines for your household size. Contact Minor Home Repair at 448-5751 (TTY 448-5025) or e-mail the …
April 20, 2010
A perennial Maple Leaf favorite, the annual plant sale at Olympic View Elementary School boasts new features this year. In addition to selling six varieties of Japanese Maple Trees, the school says it will have: Tons of new-to-the-sale edibles including blueberries, raspberries, and even some grapes! We’ll also provide the inspiration for container gardens, including …
April 20, 2010
If you’re among our neighbors who avoid the intersection at Fifth Avenue Northeast and Northeast 80th Street, don’t expect it to get any better in the near future. Although Maple Leaf resident Joshua Newman recently contacted the Seattle Department of Transportation about adding left-turn lanes both east- and westbound on 80th Street, the city has …
April 19, 2010
A woman jogger at Green Lake was attacked by a man at around 10 a.m. on a Sunday morning, seattlecrime.com is reporting. The crime blog says the incident occurred on April 11 near the Aqua Theater at the lake’s south end. Citing a police report: The woman tried to go around the man, but the …