Our Stairway work parties ran into some barriers during the past few months. We were rained out in May and June and had a small worker...

A recent meeting of the stewards of the Leschi Natural Area resulted in a fundraising plan to hire the Conservation Corps or a similar...

Trees are valuable not only to the environment but also to the neighborhood. Yet, sometimes it seems they disappear mysteriously, or...

How I view the proposal for clearing a view through the trees at the upper, 31st Avenue, end of Colman Park, writing as a trained Urban...

An outdoor gym of exercise equipment for adults will open in Powell Barnett Park, corner of Martin Luther King Way and East Alder Street,...

The two wading pools in our neighborhood, at Powell Barnett Park and Peppi’s Playground, have been closed for more than 5 years due to...

Leschi Natural Area We are pleased to report that the Leschi Natural Area (LNA) has made considerable progress this year. We’ve...

The String of Pearls refers to a series of mini parks along Lake Washington at the end of east/west streets that run right to the lake....

“I have always felt that my community is no better or worse than what I help make it, likewise, my country. I can’t delegate my own...

This 4.4 tract of land at 352 Martin Luther King Jr Way had been used as a track and athletic field for Garfield High School for years...

Now that Peppi's Woods has become an easier area to navigate, the children who frequent the woods daily after school wander about looking...

Friends of Peppi’s Woods received a grant in July from the Department of Neighborhoods to do the work to formalize the informal social...