Marina Gordon, editor My Wallingford, today asked – and answered – a question on many of our minds: “What’s that yellow helicopter?  Is it a news chopper? Medic? What could it be?” The answer, as with so many questions, was just a Google search away. That’s a tour helicopter, which explains why we’re seeing it [...]

There was a large amount of police activity in east Green Lake on Saturday morning (July 24, 2010).  Several police officers, including one K-9 unit, were called to NE 61st between 1st Ave NE and Latona Ave NE. Green Lake resident Deb Kapsner reports that she was awoken shortly before 5 a.m. by the sound [...]

Around 10 p.m. tonight (Saturday, May 22, 2010), a spectacular fireworks show could be seen (and heard!) from many areas of the Green Lake neighborhood. Wondering what was up? All we know at this point (thanks, West Seattle Blog!) is that they were connected to a private party.  According to KING 5, they originated in [...]

We received the following query from My Green Lake reader Matt: I recently got the rare privilege of driving a power boat on the lake, and was remembering the scary days of my youth when limited hydroplanes raced on Green Lake. I wonder if you folks have anyone who might be able to share some [...]

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 [...]