Electronics recycling event Saturday
Get rid of your old electronics on Saturday at the Ballard Windermere Real Estate office (2636 NW Market St.) The pile of electronics collected during last year’s event at Ballard …
Month: January 2012
Bank approved for new building, drive-up banking
The Department of Planning and Development (DPD) has approved plans to replace the current Washington Federal Savings and Loan building at 2020 NW Market Street. Washington Federal Savings and Loan …
Salmon Bay School adding more students
Ballard’s option school, Salmon Bay School, will allow more students starting in the 2012-2013 school year. From the Salmon Bay website: We will soon begin tours the first week of …
‘Let’s Can Hunger’ to benefit the Ballard Food Bank
Help feed those in need at a fundraiser and canned food drive next week. Apulent Events + Catering is hosting the event, ‘Let’s Can Hunger’, to benefit the Ballard Food …
Cold Shooting For Ballard Basketball
By Bucky Beaver Boys (7-6, 5-3 in conference) You have to bring your “A” game every night in Kingco, arguably the toughest league in the state. Especially when you are …
Houses, cars and garages tagged in Ballard
Updated: We spoke with Detective Chris Young, the lone graffiti detective with the Seattle Police Department. He tells us that these are not gang tags – in fact he says …
Burn ban means no fires at home or at the beach
A stage one burn ban goes into effect for King County at 4 p.m. today, affecting residential burning and beach fires. People burning Christmas trees at the Polar Bear Plunge …
Bitterroot BBQ plans to open next week
For more than six months Grant and Hannah Carter have been building out the little space at the corner of Ballard Ave NW and NW Vernon. Their work is almost …
A look at the Ballard real estate market
By Sharon Giampietro, Ballard resident and Re/Max agent Lack of Inventory In the past six months, Realtors have been commenting on the lack of housing inventory in the greater Ballard …
Bright January moonrise
On Monday morning there was a gorgeous moon set over the Olympics, followed by a beautiful moon rise Tuesday evening. “My wife and I were at the Sunset Hill Community …
On the agenda: Parks, library, transit and trees
The Ballard District Council meets the second Wednesday of each month. The January meeting is Wednesday, January 11th at 7 p.m. at the Ballard Library. All are welcome to come …
Zoo tops 1 million visitors, raising admission price
The Woodland Park Zoo reports that attendance has topped 1,000,000 visitors for the eleventh year in a row. Last year the zoo had 1,094,514 visitors. The zoo also raised $68.5 …