Last October, King County Metro published a proposal for a September 2012 change to Greater Seattle’s transit system. The proposed service change includes a modification of Route 16, which connects downtown Seattle to the Northgate neighborhood via east Green Lake. If the current proposal is adopted, trips would be added to Route 16, and the north part of the route would be moved to N 92nd St and 1st Ave NE. Currently, the route travels via College Way N, Meridian Avenue N and NE Northgate Way between North Seattle Community College and the Northgate Transit Center. Several residents of The Hearthstone, a continuing care retirement community in east Green Lake, are unhappy…
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Hearthstone resident says she is “madder than a wet hen” about proposed change to Route 16
Last month, King County Metro published a proposal for a September 2012 change to Greater Seattle’s transit system. The proposed service change includes a new route, Route 63, which would replace Route 26. We took a close look at this possible new route here. Metro is also proposing changes to Route 16, which connects downtown Seattle to the Northgate neighborhood via east Green Lake. Under the proposed service change, trips would be added Route 16, and the north part of the route would be moved to N 92nd St and 1st Ave NE. Currently, the route travels via College Way N, Meridian Avenue N and NE Northgate Way between North…
Register now for Katy’s Musikal Magik at the Green Lake Community Center
Registration is now open for Katy’s Musikal Magik. The early childhood music classes are the most popular offering at the Green Lake Community Center (7201 E Green Lake Dr N), according to Jeff Skinner, the facility’s former Coordinator. Green Lake classes include Infant Music Development, Toddler Music Development, Preschool Music Development, World Music Appreciation for Kids, Spanish Music with ASL, and Musical Sign in ASL. The program’s second winter session begins this week. Class information and registration details can be found on Katy’s website. In addition to Green Lake classes, you can find the program at the Phinney Neighborhood Center (6532 Phinney Ave N), the Ballard…
Candlelight vigil at Green Lake Park tonight
The Seattle Times is reporting that a candlelight vigil will be held at 7 p.m. tonight (Tuesday, Jan 11, 2011) at Green Lake Park. The vigil will take place near the Aqua Theater, which is located on the west side of the lake. Lanterns will be floated across the lake. The vigil will mark the first anniversary of the deaths of Andis Petersons and Franklin Wood. Petersons and Wood died in a Northgate home invasion. Casey McNerthney wrote about the double homicide here.
Green Lake's voice was heard at McGinn Transition Team's first town hall
Tonight we headed up to the Northgate Community Center to see Mayor-Elect Mike McGinn in action as he hosted the first of three transition town halls. McGinn invited attendees to pose their ideas and questions to him either by speaking directly at the town hall or tweeting their thoughts using the hashtag #newseattle. Tweets were projected onto a large screen for all to see in real-time. While at the event we asked Green Lakers to send their thoughts our way so that we could then retweet them. It was pretty cool to see these projected on the screen for all…
