Concerned residents gathered last Thursday to discuss with local law enforcement the needs of a community that’s been stricken by a rash of recent shootings in the Central District and nearby area.
Often, patients will ask me about staying active after they’ve been told they have arthritis. It can be very discouraging for people, and they might even feel like they can’t be active anymore when their joints are painful from the most common form of arthritis, osteoarthritis.
A representative from the Seattle Office of Emergency Management will be at the November meeting of the Madison Valley Community Council.
The Madrona Community Council is hosting an emergency preparedness presentation 7-8:30 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 23, at Madrona Elementary, 1121 33rd Ave.
A Central District resident police investigated for more than a year for allegedly promoting prostitution will not face charges, the King County Prosecutor’s Office finding the case to be legally insufficient.
The Office of Economic Development is making $1.4 million in business district improvement funds available through its annual Only in Seattle initiative. Neighborhood organizations, businesses and property owners are encouraged to work on a common vision for a business district, and any can apply for project funding by 5 p.m. Monday, Oct. 29.
The Washington State Department of Transportation and Seattle Parks and Recreation are working on a project to winterize the irrigation line from the Foster Island Bridge to the Washington Park Arboretum.
Medical professionals returning to help run the four-day Seattle/King County Clinic were happy to help, but disheartened that the state of healthcare has made the clinic a necessary annual service. “It says a lot about our society and our healthcare system that this clinic is even necessary,” said Dr. Rick Arnold, a Seattle/King County Clinic primary care director. “It is a problem. We need to fix our healthcare system.”
Mark Long made a lot of friends in his nearly three decades running the Attic in Madison Park, many of whom raised a glass in his memory on Wednesday.
Save Madison Valley is facing a lengthy uphill battle when it makes its case for why the City of Seattle erred in permitting the construction of a major multifamily housing project in the neighborhood earlier this year.
Country Doctor Community Health Centers executive director Raleigh Watts says the nonprofit’s new Capitol Hill dental clinic is set to open on time and on budget, taking current clients first in an effort to maximize its suite of health care services.
The Seattle City Council will consider updating its ordinance regulating the purchase and installation of surveillance equipment after spending $150,000 this year to remove a network put in place in 2013.
Shops, restaurants, banks and real estate offices were abuzz with activity during the 2018 Madison Park Art Walk.
Seattle Police are investigating a shooting in the Central District that sent one man to the hospital on Friday afternoon.
Former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced Seattle as a first-round winner of a $2.5 million award through his Bloomberg’s American Cities Climate Challenge during a visit to the city on Friday.
Seattle City Councilmembers Teresa Mosqueda and Sally Bagshaw are sponsoring legislation that would boost the availability of affordable housing by revising policies around disposing of surplus city properties.
Sydney Lennard is a preteen with a cotton candy machine, and the young entrepreneur is spinning sugar into cash to help pay for college.
Ever since Leschi Market’s major expansion of its wine section in the late ‘90s, community organizations up and down Lake Washington have come to the store to collaborate on fundraisers.
Erika Locatelli says the world would be a better place if every school followed the Montessori Method of teaching. The Peaceful Place Montessori founder has roughly doubled her effort, opening a second preschool in Madrona within a year of the first.
Leschi residents had plenty of questions for Kshama Sawant during the September community council meeting, but the District 3 city councilmember mostly focused on her ongoing mission to unburden Seattleites by taxing big businesses.
After 60 years shaping young minds in Madrona, Epiphany School is balancing celebrating its past with deciding its future. “I think we’re poised to really think a little more broadly about where we are going because of some of the opportunities that are available to us and, frankly, some that are thrust on us,” said Jenn Elkin, who joined Epiphany as head of school in July 2017.
Saving the Showbox could come at a major cost, as the property owner is now suing the City of Seattle for the $40 million in potential losses from a sale of the property for redevelopment.
Melissa Stoker with Save Madison Valley will be the guest speaker at the next Madison Valley Community Council meeting 7 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 18.
Sound Transit and its regional partners are poised to invest more than $100 million into the next-generation ORCA program, with the goal of improving the user experience and increasing payment options.
The Independent Pizzeria owner Tom Siegel describes his upcoming Dacha Diner as an unpretentious place to come for Eastern European comfort food. The difference in the two restaurants will be night and day, says business partner Joe Heffernan.
The seventh annual Leschi ArtWalk runs 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 8. People can visit with various artists, jewelry makers, leather crafters and more at booths in front of businesses on Lakeside Avenue.
