Dispatches from Ravenna, a neighborhood in Northeast Seattle
We’re occasionally known to do a little writing for the site next door in Roosevelt, Roosiehood. Especially when it concerns that subject near and dear to all our hearts: North Link Light Rail*.
Head on over there now to read our latest update on the North Link Light Rail project, including Sound Transit’s potential plans for a new tunnel portal location between Roosevelt and Northgate Stations.
* Roosevelt does get the station, after all.
The folks at the Meadowbrook Community Center were kind enough to alert us to the new Seattle Parks and Recreation Winter Brochure, available now.
This quarter, the Northeast edition includes the Laurelhurst, Magnuson, Meadowbrook, Northgate, and Ravenna-Eckstein community centers, plus the Meadowbrook Teen Life Center, Lifelong Recreation (for the Northeast only), and two pools, Meadowbrook and Helene Madison.
Click the happy couple in the snow below to download the brochure (8.4 MB PDF).
Armed robbery on the University of Washington campus, some local kids all grown up and touring the country’s Occupy areas, and some local shopping tips and deals in the week ahead.
The U.S. Bank branch in the Roosevelt neighborhood (1023 NE 63rd St) was the target of Occupy movement-related vandalism in the early morning of Saturday, November 26.
Photo by Dominick DiGregorio/Roosevelt Neighborhood Blog. Used with permission.
Our friends over at Roosiehood have the story (and more pictures).
Should you need to access another U.S. Bank branch in our area, there are four others in Northeast Seattle. Click on the map for location information.
Via the Seattle Public Library twitter feed: A 99-year-old sewer line serving the University Branch (5009 Roosevelt Way) is broken, and the library is closed until further notice.
There is no damage to the library building itself, but there is no water or sewer service at this time. Repairs are underway, and holds will be extended due to the closure.
According to the University Branch’s website, a reopening date has not yet been determined.
UPDATE (Thursday, December 1): University Branch website now says, “The branch will reopen at 11 a.m. Saturday, Dec. 3. Holds ready for pickup at the University Branch now will expire Saturday, Dec. 10.”
Holds ready for pickup at the University Branch now will expire Saturday, Dec. 10.
UPDATE (Nov. 25, 3:33 PM): Via the SPL twitter feed: University Branch will not be open on Saturday. Bookdrop is open and holds have been extended to 12/3.
We here at the Ravenna Blog would like to remind you of the importance of proper waste disposal during this holiday season.
Happy Thanksgiving.
Two really fun parts of the latest North Link Light Rail construction open houses for the Roosevelt and Brooklyn Stations are now available for viewing online: Illustrations of the construction sites themselves.
Enjoy!
These animations, and the presentations they were a part of, can be found on Sound Transit’s North Link Documents Library page.
Kevin Colbert needs our help.
He is looking for a garage to store, and occasionally work on, a Jeep and a motorcycle. Access is important, as he uses the vehicles to commute.
Kevin used to rent from a couple of graduate students, who have since moved away.
He’s in an apartment at about 21st Avenue NE and NE 70th Street, and is hoping to find something within short walking distance.
Kevin can be reached at 718-5260 or feed-me-a-garage@hotmail.com. He’s happy to provide a reference.
Over a dozen Seattle Fire Department units responded to a two car injury accident at the southern entrance to University Village (2746 NE 45th St) this afternoon.
Here are the details, from the Seattle Fire Department’s Fire Line:
Seattle Fire Department Paramedics transported a female driver in her 50’s to Harborview Medical Center after being rescued out of her car.
The female patient was pulling out of the QFC parking lot when she lost control of her Honda minivan and drove over a barricade and slammed into the back of a parked car causing her minivan to roll on its side.
Firefighters from Ladder Company 7 used saws and other tools to cut the woman out of her minivan. The female patient was breathing, conscious and alert. Medics transported her to Harborview Medical Center with minor injuries.
Seattle Police Department Officers are investigating the cause of the accident.
Jonah Spangenthal-Lee at Publicola happened to get a picture of the accident from “[o]ur fave tipster Silver,” and shared it via his old Seattle Crime twitter feed:
The west-bound curb lane of NE 45th St was blocked for around 45 minutes.
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