Did you hear the helicopters earlier tonight (Saturday, March 29, 2010)? Beginning at 11:14 p.m., reports of helicopter noise started to come across twitter: “what’s with all the helicopter activity around NW Greenlake???” 11:39 p.m.: “whoa. something’s up in the NE–6 SPD and a stater just sped through at a good 70mph.” We don’t know much at this point, but thanks to Jonah Spangenthal over at SeattleCrime.com we’ve got a little bit of information for you. At 12:01 a.m., Jonah tweeted: “Just heard from SPD that choppers were over greenlake awhile ago looking for a reckless driver.” We’ll keep an…
March 2010
March 27, 2010 at 9:51AM
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Coming soon to Circa Green Lake: a pain management clinic and a branch of Edward Jones
Two new commercial establishments are coming to the Circa Green Lake building, located at the site of the old Albertson’s grocery store (6900 East Green Lake Way N). The Mind Your Body Clinic will be opening April 1, 2010 in a storefront on the Woodlawn Ave NE side of the building. The clinic, a branch of which is located in Edmonds, focuses on pain management: At Mind Your Body Clinic, we help people suffering from all forms of pain reclaim their lives by providing education of pain principles, supervised medication management, opioid detoxification, interventional procedures including diagnostic and therapeutic injections,…
March 26, 2010 at 5:54PM
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Point83 bike race in Green Lake at midnight
Lock up your dogs and kids tonight; the barons of bikes and beer are at it again: End-o-March, kids. Come get drunk and ride around in a circle. It’s a big circle. South end of Greenlake, Friday 3/26 @ midnight. 12:00 Pre-snack and drink, talk about racing 12:15 Yell at people to get on the starting line. 12:30 Semi-fancy ceremony honoring the winners. Prizes include the usual selection of nice beers that suit my fancy. I’ll contemplate laminating those two-sided cards I’ve been carrying for a month. Alternate contest: –Audience votes on the best performance of an ode to your…
March 26, 2010 at 4:14PM
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Local thief, "Big Hands Guy," has hit Green Lake
A notorious thief who targets small Seattle businesses appears to have found his way to Green Lake. The thief is known by local business owners as “Big Hands Guy,” due to his large, swollen hands. He has been previously spotted in Wallingford, Queen Anne, Roosevelt, Phinney, Fremont, Greenwood, the U-District, Georgetown, and Bellevue. Noelle, barista at Revolutions Espresso and Bakery (7012 Woodlawn Ave NE), told us today that an employee from Gregg’s Greenlake Cycle (7007 Woodlawn Ave NE) has been delivering a flier to Green Lake businesses with the following information: Big scary swollen hands man. Has been hitting businesses…
