Madison Park’s annual neighborhood parade and picnic will once again start with a parade of children in costumes, some with decked-out bikes and scooters, on Saturday, July 13, followed by food, games and entertainment in the park.
Africatown Community Land Trust and a cadre of architects checked three design concepts with the Central Area community on Tuesday, with the potential for elements from each to be incorporated into plans for a new affordable housing development in the neighborhood.
While Madison Park volunteers worked on a new shoreline street-end project, Leschi residents John Barber and Mark Schergen provided spruced up a well-established one in their neighborhood.
The Civic Alliance for a Sound Economy is endorsing Seattle City Council District 3 candidate Egan Orion, as are more than a dozen high-profile Amazon officials and lobbyists. The goal is to remove incumbent Kshama Sawant and make the city council more friendly to businesses.
Madison Park Home & Garden Tour-ists got their steps in during the annual fundraising event on June 9, raising more than $5,000 to support McGilvra Elementary students.
Volunteers were out finishing the first segment of the East Prospect Street end restoration project on Saturday, removing blackberries and other invasive vegetation, and then putting in mulch.
Seattle City Council District 3 candidates spent two hours sharing their positions on some of the most pressing issues for Central Area residents on Thursday, June 13, with the occasional dig at the incumbent and an absent school board member.
Not all residents on Lake Washington Boulevard or in Madison Park think a temporary on-ramp to eastbound State Route 520 will help ease traffic through the Washington Park Arboretum after the existing arboretum on-ramp closes this fall.
King County Superior Court Judge John Ruhl has accepted a motion by Save Madison Valley to dismiss its own land-use petition challenging redevelopment plans for the City People’s Garden Store site on East Madison Street.
The Survivor SAKE dragon boat team has been paddling Lake Washington for nearly two decades, powered by cancer survivors at all stages in their fight against the deadly disease. The team will compete in the United States Dragon Boat Federation Club Crew Dragon Boat National Championships in Colorado Springs for the first time this year.
