A school of more than 300 humans is expected to make the 3.2-mile journey from one Lake Washington floating bridge to the other during the 19th annual Fat Salmon Swim on Saturday, July 14.
The times, they are a changing, but Madison Park Days has kept its traditions much the same in the nearly four decades since its start.
Stewards of the Beaver Lodge Sanctuary in Madison Park have launched this year’s Adopt-a-Plant program to provide needed watering during the summer.
The Consulate of Mexico in Seattle will close downtown on Friday, with plans to reopen in Capitol Hill on July 9. The Mexican consulate is taking over most of the space in the historic Harvard Exit Theater, which owner Eagle Rock Ventures acquired for $2.35 million in 2015 and began renovating for Class A office space that fall.
Developers, government officials and community advocates said goodbye to the large asphalt lot above the Capitol Hill light rail station on Tuesday, and celebrated the start of Sound Transit’s largest transit-oriented development to date.
The Colonial Dames of Washington will host winning projects from middle and high school students from around the state for Washington State History Day at Pioneer Hall in Madison Park on Sunday, July 8.
The Seattle City Attorney’s Office is seeking an amendment to municipal code that would make it easier to charge and convict a person of committing a hate crime.
A new Seattle Department of Construction and Inspections director’s rule requiring development projects going through streamline, administrative or full design review to prepare a community outreach plan takes effect July 1.
Parkshore has had picturesque views of Lake Washington and Mt. Rainier for the past 55 years. But the senior living market has changed a lot since then, so now Transforming Age is executing a modern vision for the Madison Park community.
A Seattle attorney is challenging the process that led up to the repeal of the city’s short-lived employee-hours tax.
Natalie Anderson and Adam Peart started Driftwood Boutique a decade ago, growing a local clientele in the market for affordable high-end fashion. Julie Moberly has taken over the Madrona storefront, changing the name to Jules, and adding her own stamp on what she says was already a "winning formula."
The crossing flags seen up and down East Madison Street popped up a decade ago, a project of the now disbanded Historic Madison Park group. Residents Reg Newbeck and Ken Myrabo took up the flags in 2010, and last year was the first time resident support covered the full cost of maintaining the community service.
Amid chants from protesters inside city hall that “We are ready to fight, housing is a human right,” the Seattle City Council voted 7-2 to repeal the employee-hours tax, almost a month after its unanimous approval.
Back in 2011, playwright and immigration attorney Margaret O’Donnell wrote an educational play for Saint Andrew’s Episcopal Church. With people in the church participating in it, “The Detention Lottery” presented real immigration courtroom cases to educate the community about the deportation legal system.
Seattle City Council president Bruce Harrell has called a special Tuesday meeting to vote on repealing the contentious employee-hours tax, almost a month after the council unanimously approved it.