Editor’s note: The following opinion piece about sex offenders comes to us from Green Lake resident Erin Longmoon. We had hoped to run this article with a companion piece that offered a different take on the subject of geographic restrictions on sex offenders. However, although we reached out to several individuals and posted a public request on facebook, we have not been able to find an author for such a piece. Please drop us a line at tips [at] mygreenlake.com if you would like to write a ~1,000-word counter-argument to this article, and, as always, please feel free to sound off with…
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Fall-ing for Green Lake trees
This guest post comes to us via Gretchen Champoux of Sacred Spaces, a local garden design company. Green Lake is a feast for the eyes right now. No, I’m not talking about all those power-walking “BOB-Stroller-Moms.” I’m talking about the trees. Have you seen them lately? Living in the PNW, it’s easy to take trees for granted. We’re surrounded. I mean, our city gives us trees to plant for heaven’s sakes. I love it. My favorite part of my run or walk around Green Lake is the north end – that is, if you are heading counter clock-wise,…
North Central Little League looking for new leader
Many thanks to our news partner My Ballard for sharing this story with us. The president of the North Central Little League is retiring and the league is looking for someone to fill the position. NCLL covers parts of Ballard, Fremont, Phinney Ridge, Greenwood, Green Lake and Wallingford. Tom D’Angelo has been a part of NCLL for more than a decade but now that his kids are older, he believes it is time for him to move on. A week ago he sent this letter to families involved in NCLL: Dear North Central Community, Eleven years ago…
The Olmsted Legacy in Green Lake and Ravenna
We want a ground to which people may easily go after their day’s work is done, and where they may stroll for an hour seeing, hearing and feeling nothing of the bustle and jar of the streets… - Fredrick Law Olmsted Sr., 1870, “Public Parks and the Enlargement of Towns” On Tuesday (April 26, 2011), the Friends of Green Lake hosted a presentation by Sue Nicol, Vice President of Friends of Seattle’s Olmsted Parks. Sue spoke on the Olmsted plans for Green Lake Park, Ravenna Park, and Ravenna Blvd. The presentation was well-attended, with an estimated 50 people in attendance, including Mitch Spute, who provided us…
Man arrested after dancing pants-less at a north Green Lake bus stop
This story, by Levi Pulkkinen, comes to us via our news partner seattlepi.com. A 46-year-old Seattle man accused of dancing pants-less at a Green Lake neighborhood bus stop is facing felony indecent exposure charges. According to charging documents, a passing driver called the police after spotting James R. Amundson’s bare behind at a Metro Transit stop in the 2200 block of North 80th Street. Describing the 8:30 p.m. Jan. 19 incident, the man told police he circled the block once after seeing the pants-less Amundson standing rearward to traffic, according to charging documents. As he passed Amundson a second time, the man said Amundson…
