BOOK REVIEW I knew that I needed to read The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, by Rebecca Skloot, when I first heard about it, but part...

BOOK REVIEW Since we have a clutch of big tax chiselers right here in River City*, this subject interests me greatly. As the Great...

BOOK REVIEW Though the title implies that this is another book on the stock market, it is, rather, a review of the history of America’s...

The Judge Ronald House was recently designated as a landmark by the Landmarks Preservation Board, and it appears to be the first...

In January we published the story of the Ronald House and how landmark status was achieved for this beautifully restored home. With the...

The new station #6 at the corner of Jackson and Martin Luther King Jr. Way looks like a state of the art station. In addition to being...

Halloween night, 2009—Seattle Police officer Timothy Brenton and rookie trainee Britt Sweeney pull over on 29th Avenue, just north of...

For several years, the grocery store on the southwest corner of 28th and Jackson has been plagued with graffiti, vandalism, open-air drug...

Two Native Americans are memorialized in our community. The Dreamcatcher at the intersections of and 32nd Avenue and East Yesler Way is a...

An incident in Leschi this summer made us aware that our community has some unique problems: streets that suddenly end and pick up...

Loss of a Neighborhood Icon: DeeDee Rainbow (December 2013) We learned that long time Madrona resident, DeeDee Rainbow, died just shortly...

Leschi Elementary’s school garden is ready for spring planting! On Sunday February 15th, we had a wonderful group of parent volunteers...