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No, this is not an April Fool’s Day joke. Floating Bridge Brewing will buy you a beer on April 1, if you attend that evening’s community Project Development meeting at U-Heights Center and stop by the brewery afterward. The Project Development meeting is part of the Your Voice, Your Choice: Parks & Streets initiative in which “Seattle residents democratically decide how to spend a portion of the City’s budget on small-scale park and street improvements.” Ideas were collected by community members…

A management conflict over the "tiny house" homeless encampments, including the "Northlake Village" presently occupying the Seattle City Light land across from Ivar's in Wallingford, has exploded over the past week, with the residents padlocking themselves in today and barring access to LIHI and City of Seattle staff from entering. First, background is in order, accurately provided by Nickelsville's own history page: Nickelsville came about in response to the sweeps of encampments ordered by former Mayor Greg Nickels. After six months of …

An already complicated race for the Seattle City Council District 4 seat got a little more confusing on Thursday when incumbent Councilmember Rob Johnson announced his resignation, effective April 6. Johnson had already announced that he would not be running for reelection this fall, but his decision to step down early came as a surprise, as he had given no previous indication that he would not satisfy the remainder of his term. This news should placate the folks who clamored for…

A number of readers have written to us to inform us that the Elysian Brewery in Tangletown is changing hands. So I biked on up there to check it out. Sure enough, a sign on the door reads: After being a Co-signer on the lease for 16 years, one of Elysian's co-founders, David Buhler, will be taking over the lease fully. David is excited to open his own pub and continue to be part of the Tangletown community.Tangletown Public HouseOpening Soon!…

The late-night pizza and pasta joint Milano (405 NE 45th St.) abruptly closed and Fitchi House Eastern Cuisine is moving in. They painted the façade a canary yellow that really pops and brings life the the block. The Fitchi House website is still under construction but it appears that we're getting a new Turkish café serving meat pies, flat breads, desserts, tea, and coffee. That being said, the sign simply reads “Eastern Cuisine.” Without limiting themselves to “Turkish” or “Mediterranean” there’s…

The city "swept" the Troll's Knoll homeless encampment this past Monday. The encampment has been a source of both frustration and sympathy for the neighborhood, but had been what passes for home for a few dozen people up until this point. The city is required to give advance notice of sweeps, to hold any property removed in storage for at least 70 days, and to provide shelter for anyone displaced by a sweep. According to KIRO, when the city Navigation Team…

In my recent Wallingford Wildlife Report, I led off by musing about how some of the wildlife we see here in Wallingford are likely descended from a long, centuries-plus old line of Wallingford-area beasties. So I was surprised to read otherwise when in this recent article from the UW News, When coyote parents get used to humans, their offspring become bolder, too. It turns out the rather than being a "reintroduction", coyotes in the area are a modern, 21st century phenomenon:…