April 3, 2015

Police dog in action! Video by King County Sheriff Air Support. A police helicopter and K-9 team assisted in the arrest of four people near Northgate Transit Center about 11 p.m. Thursday. Two others got away after a confrontation that included a knife, police said. The arrests were made about 10 blocks away in Maple

April 2, 2015

The lure of high-speed Internet connections (1 GB per second – read “really, really fast”) has been around for years in Maple Leaf. Unsuccessfully. Gigabit service through fiber-optic lines, perhaps 1,000 times faster than a “typical” Internet connection, has been tried twice thrice here (we forgot Google), by the city and by GigaBit Squared –

April 2, 2015

The 2014 egg hunt, before the deluge. Maple Leaf’s Lux Communities is planning its second annual Easter Egg Hunt this Saturday at Maple Leaf Reservoir Park. This is Micah from Lux Communities. We are having an Egg Hunt again this year. It is a free event for the community. It is this Saturday, April 4th

March 31, 2015

Update 7:39 p.m. Wednesday: Hail, for the second evening in a row! Update Wednesday a.m. National Weather Service in Seattle says 60 percent chance of showers today and possibly a thunderstorm after 11 a.m. This evening’s hail – and lightning strikes – have killed power to several dozen in Maple Leaf.

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March 23, 2015

KL emails: Hello MLL: This morning my daughter and I managed to wrangle a black hen (I think ) from the roundabout of Northeast 90th Street and Eighth Avenue Northest to our backyard coop. She’s full grown and seems pretty tame. Currently she’s finding her place among our hens and I’m more than happy to