One year and two months ago, I took a job editing two monthly newspapers. The Madison Park Times was the newspaper that made me nervous.
Life is often filled with “strikes and gutters” and this year was no different.
Okay baby boomers, is it time to downsize and move into a house better suited for aging?
The Sound Transit Board of Directors approved a resolution Thursday declaring surplus property in First Hill suitable for housing development.
Last June continued this storyline. The best-of-times Seattle market — homes under $1.5 million — are still fetching multiple offers, without contingencies, and selling in days for above the asking price.
Funding to purchase a new homeless shelter for Operation Nightwatch likely won’t make it into the next public benefits proposal for the Washington State Convention Center addition, the developer said.
Recent Washington State History Day winning exhibits from the community’s middle and high school students will be displayed at the Pioneer Hall, 1642 43rd Ave. E. from 2 to 4 p.m. Sunday, July 23.
McGilvra Elementary in Madison Park, on May 3, received a 2016 Washington Achievement Award for High Progress.
Twenty-three years after it begun, the foundation's work awarding scholarships to students of the old Martin Luther King Jr. Elementary School is coming to an end. The campus closed in 2006 -- it has since become the MLK F.A.M.E. Community Center -- and the last of the school’s students graduated high school this year.
Acid reflux and its chronic condition, gastroesophageal reflux disease (usually shortened to GERD), are so common it’s estimated that 20 to 30 percent of people experience it weekly and about 7 million people in the United States experience it chronically.
Sooner or later most of us will find ourselves in physical therapy to address some type of injury or medical condition.
While the city of Seattle indeed is growing up with a record increase in jobs, housing, and population (now over 700,000 and leading the nation in residential growth, according to a recent Seattle Times story), Kolko communicates a false notion that somehow we here in the Northwest have overcome sprawl and its trappings (longer commutes, automobile-dependency, and increased carbon emissions). Nothing could be further from the truth.
This month we remember the Cafe Racer shooting, five years (and so many other needless tragedies) later.
The Greater Madison Valley Community Council completed its first annual financial review and, faced with low coffers, council board members are considering ways they can solicit donations from the neighborhood at-large.
The volunteer council held its annual election at the MLK F.A.M.E. Community Center June 20. All of the council’s existing officers and board members were re-elected, and voters elected a secretary and three additional board members.
Mighty oaks from tiny acorns grow, as the saying goes. And if you want proof of that, take a look at the three mature oaks that wrap around the southwest corner of the intersection of Madison Street and McGilvra Boulevard.
McGilvra Elementary’s online spring auction has concluded with great success, surpassing our fundraising goal by 15 percent.
Once again, supporters of an income tax on Seattle’s wealthiest residents gathered in City Council chambers, calling for more revenue to combat homelessness and support other public amenities.
It seems that whenever we open a newspaper or watch the news on television we are inundated with data about our fast-paced and highly competitive real estate market. We hear a lot about property listings receiving multiple offers, buyers waiving contingencies and homes selling well above asking price.
By training, McGloin is a Russian historian and former international journalist for Turner Broadcasting who first visited Seattle to cover the International Goodwill Games. He ended up working for Microsoft in program management and business development, then (like so many) he jumped off the corporate ship headfirst and into frontline community relations. He took over the Judkins Street Cafe in the heart of Seattle's Central District.
When asked by a client “Is this a good time to sell?,” about 99 percent of real estate agents will exclaim “This is a great time to sell!” (Never mind that their answer is likely the same whether or not it’s actually a good time to sell.)
A mixed-use building proposed to replace City People’s Garden Store on East Madison Street in Madison Valley went through its fourth public comment meeting June 6, and the project’s most vocal opposition remained unhappy with the design.
Are games really a waste of time? Or do they have the power to shape us into better people? In her 2015 book “SuperBetter,” Jane McGonigal argues persuasively for the latter, and constructs a framework for readers to engage in “gameful living.”
The weather has shifted, signaling one of our favorite seasons at MoveMend: running season!
For a while now, those of us working with Save Madison Valley have warned that if the proposed development for the City People’s site is allowed to proceed as currently planned it could turn Madison into quite a mess.
It felt a bit like a dress rehearsal the other day, a warm and sunny afternoon at the Leschi marina that suggested a fine summer ahead. At the far end of the lake, Mt. Rainier rose from the clouds like a gorgonzola ice cream cone; in the foreground, the masts of pleasure boats bobbed like matchsticks dancing with toothpicks.
The Madison Park office of Windermere Real Estate is coming out with a commercial tour map of the neighborhood.
In "The Cage Fighter," director Jeff Unay trained his camera on Kent-area man Joe Carman, a retired fighter and father who begins training for a match in secret.
The creator's spirit of relentlessness shoots through “The Jim Henson Exhibition: Imagination Unlimited,” a world premiere exhibit running through January 3, 2018, at MoPOP.
Not far into their learning curve, beginning gardeners may discover companion planting: a hardy Fuchsia planted next to a burgundy Berberis, to arch over and trail through the thorny branches; perhaps a purple-leaved ornamental grape to crawl into the dark green needles of a Mugho pine.
Not far into their learning curve, beginning gardeners may discover companion planting: a hardy Fuchsia planted next to a burgundy Berberis, to arch over and trail through the thorny branches; perhaps a purple-leaved ornamental grape to crawl into the dark green needles of a Mugho pine.
Until last week, no one in the neighborhood had put themselves forward as a candidate for council president or vice president, meaning no one would be there to replace outgoing president Yuki Igarashi.
A representative from the U.S. Department of Justice and East Precinct police officers provided the East Precinct Advisory Council with an update on police reforms that have taken place as a result of a DOJ consent decree entered in 2012.
Chinese investors have flooded major housing markets including Vancouver, British Columbia, New York City, Los Angeles and, more recently, Seattle.
A real estate office and McGilvra Elementary School have partnered to revive a once well-attended tour of Madison Park homes and gardens.
