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Vote: Montlake’s Sassiest Tree?
Spring must be Montlake’s finest hour. We recently walked the neighborhood looking for its biggest, bestest and most sassiest tree. This tree is it. It is across from St. Demetrios. Go see it soon...
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Development Controversy Comes to Blaine
A developer’s attempt to subdivide a 6000 square foot property into separate lots in advance of building a new home in its (former) backyard has caused a stir on Blaine Street. Residents learned of the...
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Interview with Sound Transit Tunnel Surveyors
Survey crews were monitoring the Sound Transit light rail route through Montlake every few days last winter, but now that tunnel drilling is over they come around much less. Recently we took the chance...
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Montlake Elementary “Little Monsters” Art Walk
Montlake Elementary takes on the theme of “Little Monsters” for its 2012 Art Walk. Starting today and continuing through May 24th, student artwork will decorate store windows in downtown Montlake. The...
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Dog Poop Poll Results Say Carry It Home
A recent poll asked Montlakers what dog walkers should do with their bags of dog poop and the results have now been tallied and certified: 60% say it’s best to carry it all the way home. 27% endorse...
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Farm Fresh Food Options for Montlake
Wedged between Capitol Hill and the University District, Montlake is a short bike ride or a decent hike away from neighborhood farmers markets on Saturdays and Sundays. Recently, there’s been talk...
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Naked man salutes drivers on 520
It’s that time of the year. On Monday, a man walked down Pine Street and on to Broadway in his birthday suit (slightly NSFW) and on Tuesday, a tweet from the 520 commute announced: Crossing 520...
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Best of recent Montlakegram
And as far as live traffic cameras go, most are pretty mundane, but this one is usually pretty interesting:
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REPOSTED: Neighborhood Night Out Tuesday, August 7th
Tuesday, August 7th is Seattle’s 28th annual Night Out, when neighbors band together, close down their streets to traffic and throw block parties all over the city. The events are first and foremost...
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REPOSTED: Penthouse Living Under the Ramp-to-Nowhere
The idea of re-purposing transportation infrastructure is not new — the Highline in Lower Manhattan has even made it trendy. But before the Highline was converted from an elevated railway into a...
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RERUNS: Blaine Street Preservation group finds citywide allies against...
The feature article in the current issue of Seattle Weekly dives into the subdivision controversy that fired up Blaine residents earlier this year. In short, developer Dan Duffus makes his career out...
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Blaine residents say ‘not in your backyard’ — Council shuts down small lot...
Montlake’s spirit of civic activism is alive and well. After Blaine residents learned of the subdivision and backyard development of a house on their street last spring, neighbors organized a campaign...
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Neighbor’s SUV vandalized again, spray-painted with “Obama” and “Romney S” in...
A car was vandalized for the second time in a week last night on East Shelby Street, for reasons the owner believes are politically motivated. The Lexus SUV was first striped in purple spray paint...
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Glenn Fleishman competes tonight on Jeopardy!
Montlake resident Glenn Fleischman will appear tonight on Jeopardy! according to his personal blog. The episode was taped in August and airs tonight on KOMO 4 at 7:30pm. Fleishman writes for the...
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Neighbor and newly elected King County Judge Scott Johnson passes away
Montlake resident Scott Johnson passed away early Saturday morning on a work trip to Yakima. From The Seattle Times: King County Superior Court Judge-elect Scott Johnson died early Saturday morning in...
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Hauntlake Halloween !!
Montlake Coop, Saturday October 27th, 10-noon, Montlake Community Center: The Montlake Coop is sponsoring a Halloween party tomorrow (Saturday) for 5 and unders (plus sibs) at the Montlake Community...
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Hurricane Sandy storm damage claims Seattle neighborhood blogs
Disruption from Hurricane Sandy has extended well beyond the east coast storm’s thousand-mile vortex. The New York web servers for central Seattle neighborhood blogs Capitol Hill Seattle, Central...
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On the shelf at the Little Free Library
Did you know Montlake has a People’s Library? Following the concept of book share that went mainstream with last year’s Occupy protests, People’s Libraries have sprung up all over Seattle. Montlake has...
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Poll: Rats!
A reader wants know: How many of you have ever received city complaints about rats in your backyard? We who live under Interlaken Park cannot NOT have rats. I use 5 electronic traps, and 2 rat motels,...
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Councilmember Rasmussen to propose legislation for school teacher parking
Seattle City Councilmember Tom Rasmussen will propose new legislation giving the director of SDOT the authority to issue parking permits to school staff. This morning’s post about on-going frustration...
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