April 16, 2010

Our sister site, MyBallard.com is reporting that the completion of the Burke Gilman trail has been stalled. Friday morning, King County Superior Court Judge Jim Rogers ruled that the city must perform an environmental review before a decision can be made to complete the missing link of the Burke Gilman Trail. Read more on MyBallard.com.

Environmental study required for 'missing link'

April 16, 2010

Updated: After the big clean-up stick around Wallingford Center to hear new Seattle City Councilmember Mike O’Brien speak at 1 p.m. on green efforts and Earth Day (which is April 22). O’Brien chaired the local chapter of the Sierra Club for three years before running for office. Getting that itch to clear out the closets,

Saturday: Operation Beautify Wallingford

April 16, 2010

A friend alerted us to a Craiglist ad that Matt Harding, of “Where the Hell Is Matt?” fame, posted recently. He’s looking for a Seattle-area, travel-savvy production coordinator: I’m starting a new dancing video and I’m looking for a production coordinator to help me organize travel, gather groups for the dancing events, and keep track

Work on "Where the Hell Is Matt?"

April 15, 2010

Looks like Seattle Public Utilities really underestimated demand for free kitchen compost kits and ran out in less than an hour at local neighborhood offices. The Ballard office was out of kits in 30 minutes; it took 50 minutes for the University District office to go through their allotment. SPU just posted this: Due to

SPU runs out of kitchen compost kits

April 15, 2010

For a couple of months there have been posters in the old Tweedy and Popp space at 1916 N. 45th St. that alerted the neighborhood a rug store was coming. At last, we know the name: Domo Home Collections. There’s a web site for a previous store by the same name in Portland, but that

Old Tweedy and Popp space gets a name