April 1, 2010

Updated:The show will go on! Just 24 hours after Tom Douglas and Dave Ross announced a pledge drive to raise money to save the Family 4th Fireworks show on Lake Union, the goal of $500,000 has been reached. Both Microsoft and Starbucks agreed to each pay $125,000 if other businesses and citizens pitched in the

April 1, 2010

Getting to Golden Gardens on the Burke Gilman Trail takes you through the dangerous, unfinished stretch which runs through Ballard — called the “missing link” — which has long been a hot-button issue with bicyclists, drivers and businesses in the area. King County Superior Court Judge Jim Rogers is expected to issue his opinion Friday

March 31, 2010

For more than two decades, Gasworks Park was the place to watch an incredible Independence Day fireworks show. One Reel, the company who produces the event announced that there will be no Family 4th and Lake Union this year. Tomoko Moriguchi Matsuno, president of the One Reel Board of Directors wrote this letter on ChaseFamily4th.org.

March 27, 2010

Suzanna sent us an email last night to ask if anyone witnessed a parked car getting hit in front of Cafe Ladro Friday evening.  I was parked in from of Cafe Ladro on 36th tonight during the NCAA finals and someone apparently drove by around 8pm (very fast) according to the homeless guy on the street

March 25, 2010

We’re happy to officially announce the launch of three new neighborhood news sites in our community network here in North Seattle: Maple Leaf Life, Wedgwood View and My Wallingford. This is Next Door Media’s first expansion since the network grew from My Ballard to a total of five sites a little more than a year