Grab your gardening gloves and come help spruce up Bergen Place Park. In conjunction with Tuesdays in Ballard, the community is invited to join the Friends of Bergen Place Park […]
Month: August 2010
Reminder: Early Design meeting Monday night
Monday evening is the Early Design Guidance meeting for the proposed development at the Old Ballard Library branch location at 5711 24th Ave NW. Sketch from the design proposal. (.pdf) […]
Oyster bar opens in the Kolstrand Building
Chef Renee Erickson’s new oyster bar in the Kolstrand Building (4743 Ballard Avenue NW) opens today. The Walrus and the Carpenter will open at 4 p.m. with a full menu, […]
Nearby: Squatter, ‘Abbey Road’, Nickerson St.
Here are stories making headlines in nearby neighborhoods: Boba Fett and Beatles in Wallingford? Police accuse man of squatting in Magnolia House. Pedestrian bridge from Queen Anne to Myrtle Edwards […]
St. Al’s students donate bounty to charity
Students from St. Alphonsus Parish School has donated their first harvest from the Parish Community Garden to the Ballard Food Bank. Last week, students, parents and teachers picked enough vegetables […]
Ballardites celebrate along the Inca Trail
Ballard t-shirts, hoodies and jackets are popular around here, but they’ve been sighted around the world. Ballard-based Go South Adventures recently took a group of tourists along the Classic Inca […]
A view of the Blue Angels over Seattle
Our sister site on Queen Anne joined a hundred or so spectators at Kerry Park to snap some photos of the Blue Angels over downtown. The view from up on […]
Ballardite catches sunspots through camera lens
We’ve had some pretty amazing sunsets recently and the sun has been beautiful shades of orange. “My wife noticed how orange the sky was the other day (Thursday, 6 August), […]
Art covers fence around vacant Sunset Bowl lot
The fence around the former Sunset Bowl property at 14th and Market has become the canvas for two Ballard artists. Anne Baumgartner and Pam Gray started planning the “On the […]
Improvements to My Ballard’s comment system
A couple weeks ago, we asked folks in the forum for feedback on My Ballard’s comment system. Many of you asked that we allow users to help moderate comments, as […]
Security camera captures man taking package
Updated: Six months ago, a Ballard resident videotaped a woman on camera taking a package from his front porch. Now he says it’s happened again. “Our USPS mail carrier delivered […]
Moving day for the Ballard Food Bank
For more than seven months, the Ballard Food Bank has been preparing for this day. Today, the non-profit moves from their location on 24th Ave NW to a much larger […]
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