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January 2011

January 29, 2011 at 6:53PM

Green Lake real estate by the numbers

From time to time, we feature guest posts from people in the neighborhood who have expertise to share. Today, we’re giving the floor to Green Lake resident Daniela Dombrowski of The Murphy & Dombrowski Real Estate Group. Looking at the latest real estate statistics for Green Lake, we see a stabilization of prices and even a slow but steady upward trend, with the average sale price between 2009 and 2010 having increased from $518,259 to $537,840. Overall, average prices are about 18% lower than at the peak of 2007. This compares quite favorably to King County as a whole, which has seen…

January 29, 2011 at 6:58AM

Conservationist Dr. Amy Vedder to give a free presentation on mountain gorillas at the zoo

Woodland Park Zoo and The Wilderness Society are presenting a free talk on mountain gorillas on Thursday, Feb. 10, 2011 at 6 p.m. Dr. Amy Vedder, a well-recognized global expert in conservation, who is now Senior Vice President of The Wilderness Society, will be presenting. Dr. Vedder will describe her groundbreaking work with mountain gorillas and the lessons she learned – both professional and personal – from this experience. Building on this background, Dr. Vedder will discuss how these lessons pertain to saving wildlife and wild lands in the U.S., and how we, too, can rise to the growing challenges…

January 28, 2011 at 7:54PM

Green Lake’s Streetwise Gardener: Almost spring

By Erica Browne Grivas Now I know where the expression “to dampen one’s spirits” comes from. If this current seemingly endless slog of sog has got you down, it may help to seek out signs of relief – the horticultural light at the end of the tunnel, as it were. Finding the little signs of spring, like emerging lime suction-cups on euphorbias, or the clusters of rosettes huddling around last season’s sedum stems gives your mind something to do besides curse the clouds. On conifers look for newly formed cones, or growth on tips typically in a paler shade of the…

January 28, 2011 at 9:21AM

Metro changing some bus routing and stops

photo credit: Oran Viriyincy On Saturday, Feb. 5, 2011, King County Metro Transit is changing two dozen bus routes. Downtown routing and bus stops will be updated in order to keep people moving during long-term construction along the Seattle waterfront and in the SODO area. “Bus riders across Metro’s service area should check winter schedules for the routes they use most often to see what’s new,” a news release from Metro advises. “They can prepare by picking up a new blue timetable and the Special Rider Alert brochure, which is also posted on Metro Online. Or, use the online Trip Planner…

January 27, 2011 at 5:55PM

2011 benefit dinner for U District Food Bank at the Greenlake Bar & Grill

A benefit dinner for the University District Food Bank will be held Thursday, Feb. 10, 2011, 5-10 p.m., at Seattle’s network of Neighborhood Grills restaurants, including the Greenlake Bar & Grill (7200 E Green Lake Drive N). At least 50% of each dinner bill will be donated to the Food Bank, and 2/3 of the cost of a special $30 three-course menu will be donated. Customers will also receive two bar drinks for the price of one if they donate two 8-ounce cans of food (this deal is limited to one per customer). “The benefit dinner is a great way to reconnect with…