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(1 votes)Looking for something to do on this gorgeous Friday? They've got a huge music stage, booths, and food set up at Judkins Park for the Pacific Northwest Black Community Festival.
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(1 votes)The new thai joint we first mentioned last month is all set to open tomorrow in Madrona. They'll be open daily from 11am to 9pm, serving lunch and dinner.
They're taking...
(1 votes)Himanee Gupta-Carlson, a writer for the Seattle PostGlobe (founded by former PI writers), and her husband walked all of MLK Boulevard this spring, documenting their trip with pictures and writing along the way.
MLK begins more or less at Madison and continues 8-some miles down into the Rainier Valley. They describe parts of the CD along the way, including the intersection of MLK and Yesler:
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(0 votes)The saga continues for the classic Madrona homes displaced by the expansion of Epiphany School. Four homes were affected by the expansion, and one of more recent construction was not movable and was destroyed two weeks ago.
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(1 votes)We've got an ever-growing list of potential neighborhood blog features over at Neighborlogs , our little software product that runs CDNews and a bunch of otherneighborhood blogs . But we need more hard data to help us decide what to work on next. ...
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(3 votes)We've had several pedestrian improvements finish up around the neighborhood in the last couple of months. Think they made a huge improvement? Or maybe a big waste of money? Check out each one below and give us your vote on how you feel about them:...
(1 votes)It was a super-gorgeous Saturday, and the Newshound and I took a long four hour walk around the neighborhood to see what was going on.
Some of the most festive action was...
(1 votes)Here's the weekend events from our community calendar:
Friday at 8pm: The Bottleneck Lounge (a CDNews sponsor) kicks off Gay Pride Weekend with their Third Annual Hot Dog Blessing, starting a weekend of free weenies and drink specials
Saturday at 9am: The Clean Greens team needs a big turnout tomorrow to finish planting the field before it gets too late in the season. Pitch in, meet some neighbors,...
(0 votes)Police and prosecutors say they've seen it over and over again: low-level drug dealers are picked up, sent through a year of legal process, and are released back out onto the street where they quickly get back into their old routine. And like a tube of toothpaste, police enforcement and focus on one area only temporarily pushes the problem and the players over to a different part of the neighborhood.
Last night SPD Capt. Paul McDonagh and Deputy Prosecutor Tienney Milnor started to collect community feedback on a different...
(1 votes)Here's the scoop from tonight's East Precinct Crime Prevention Coalition meeting, the monthly confab where police, prosecutors, and citizens get together to chat about neighborhood crime.
The feature presentation tonight was from two volunteers from Big Brothers Big Sisters, the great non-profit that pairs up kids with adult role models. They've been working hard in recent years to reduce their waiting list from two years down to a few months. But they need more mentors who can commit to spending time with a kid a...
(0 votes)From Seattle's East Precinct, Thursday, June 25, 2009
(0 votes)It looks like the three classic houses that are in the way of the Epiphany School's expansion in Madrona may yet be saved. Crews from Nichols Brothers House Moving are working now to prepare the houses for their trip to new properties. They've been jacked up off of their foundations and large...
(0 votes)From Seattle's East Precinct, Wednesday, June 24, 2009
(1 votes)The ex-CD residents at Vintage Seattle have focused their talents on the Walla School, aka Mann School, which until last week was home of the NOVA alternative program. In addition to a great testimonial to the current school from a NOVA parent, they dug up a Seattle Schools document that...
(1 votes)Commenter unreal reality pointed us to the posting on craigslist:
DEVELOPMENT SITE FOR SALE 23RD AND EAST UNION ...
