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July 2009

July 25, 2009 at 12:26AM

Your Weekly Garage Sale Map … Now With Open Houses

For those of you who are nosy neighbors in the market, we’ve included open houses on this weeks Wallingford and Green Lake garage sale map. xox View Wallingford / Green Lake Garage Sales in a larger map Having a garage sale in Wallingford or Green Lake? Let us know at tips@mygreenlake.com and we will add you to the weekly map.

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July 24, 2009 at 12:19PM

Have Extra Fruit?

Seattle residents with healthy fruit trees can donate to Lettuce Link’s Community Fruit Tree Harvest project, a partnership between Lettuce Link and Seattle Tilth, which connects your surplus fruit to food banks. To register your trees, call the Garden Hotline at 206.633.0224 or email them at help@gardenhotline.org. Volunteers will come and do the rest of the leg- and ladder-work! [Solid Ground] photo credit: Athlex

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July 24, 2009 at 11:55AM

Slow Down at Green Lake Elementary … Even in the Summer

Have a question about social, personal, or legal decorum in the neighborhood? Send it our way and we will take a crack and finding the answer. Yesterday, we received this query from Bo: Whizzing past Green Lake Elementary today, I thought with great pleasure how nice summer is: yes, it may be difficult to know when to wear a jacket in this city in July, but at least we don’t have to go 25 MPH in school zones! But wait … do we? My conscious got the better of me and I thought that you might know. photo credit: Podknox…

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July 24, 2009 at 11:15AM

Armed Robbery in Tangletown Last Night

A robbery took place last night on the 5400 block of Meridian Avenue North (visualize Tangletown: this block of Meridian houses Diggity Dog Hot Dog & Sausage on its NW corner). Yikes!  Please take care out there. Robbers make off with computers and a gun in North Seattle home invasion incident early today One armed man and two other men kicked in the door of an apartment in North Seattle early today, terrorizing two residents there before fleeing with computers and a gun, Seattle police said. Descriptions of the suspects were not immediately available, Witt said. One armed man and…

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July 22, 2009 at 8:55PM

Reminder: Neighborhood Plan Status Meeting

The Neighborhood Plan Status Meeting is tomorrow: Thursday, July 23rd 6:00-8:00pm Phinney Neighborhood Center (6532 Phinney Ave N) Such a shame that it’s the same time as $5 wine tasting at PCC. If you play your cards right, maybe you can leave a teeny bit early and race over for a quick Chianti. Wine tastings at Greenlake PCC (7504 Aurora Ave N) 6:30-8:00pm New Italian arrivals from small vineyards A delicious, diverse array of flavors from small, family-owned estates. Cost is $5 per person. Attendees may arrive anytime between 6:30 and 8 p.m. for these informal tastings. RSVP by calling…

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