Late last November, along with hundreds of others, I attended a celebration at the Museum of History and Industry of the 80th birthday of...

October 31, 2009, was a Halloween that Leschi won’t forget. Officer Timothy Brenton had just cited a driver in a traffic stop and was...

Anyone who loves Seattle or wants to know its history has been given a great gift—Tributes: Black People Whose Names Grace Seattle Sites...

Several neighbors raised concerns to board members of the Leschi Community Council (LCC) about its stated support for a picnic shelter to...

Powell Barnett’s father brought the family in 1889 from Indiana to the coal town of Roslyn, Washington. The elder Barnett had been...

The Leschi Community Council Board is now accepting applications for our annual Leschi Stars. Applications must be submitted by May 5 to...

In his 1968 interview with Larry Gossett (excerpted here last month), Powell Barnett refers to the fact that housing discrimination was...

TO BE RESCHEDULED (originally March 1st, 7pm) Grace Methodist Church (downstairs meeting room) 722 30th Ave S, Seattle, WA 98144 We are...

I recently discovered that the paper archives of the Leschi Community Council (originally known as the Leschi Improvement Council, LIC)...

In January, we published a tribute to Thurston Muskelly as he had returned home from the Parkshore retirement community. We were to learn...

I can’t recall the first time I met Thurston–or even the issue or organization that we had in common at the time–but I do recall the...

[Editor’s note: According to Fair Vote Action, “Ranked choice voting (RCV) just had its biggest Election Day ever. RCV Ranked choice...