Founded in 1997 by Clayton and Susan Brehme Park as the Jet City Maven,[1] its first issue came out in March of that year.
65th Street and east of Aurora Avenue N., but in September 1998 it was expanded to include all of the city north of the Lake Washington Ship Canal.
In August 2004, Wallis Bolz of Town Crier Publishing began operating the newspaper under a letter of intent to purchase it from Susan and Clayton Park.
[1] In July 2005, citing a lack of advertising dollars, owner Wallis Bolz closed the newspaper.
[1] Bolz explained in an e-mail to the Beacon Hill News & South District Journal published July 27, 2005: "Faced with a choice of gutting the newspaper or closing the doors, we closed the doors.