Wallingford

Please note the date correction from yesterday’s post, copied again below in case you missed it. Four poets will read in what promises to be one of Seattle’s best poetry events of 2017! Michael Spence, winner of the 2015 Criterion Poetry Pr…

If you were wondering what all those sirens were about just after 10:00 tonight, so was I. Seattle’s Real Time 911 told me that there was a massive, multi-unit response to a fire in a single family residence on Bagley between 41st and 42nd. I r…

As reported last year on Wallyhood, Seattle Parks and Recreation will be renovating the play area on the east edge of Gas Works Park this year. As part of that work, Puget Sound Energy will be installing “pipes and monitoring wells” as part o…

The Mayor and many department heads from the City of Seattle will be coming to Wallingford for the Find It, Fix It Community Walk.  The event is open to the public and will start in Woodland Park at the corner of 50th and Greenlake Way North.  …

Back on January 30, I wrote that persons who had been camped out on the Burke Gilman Trail between Gasworks Park and I-5 had, effectively, been served with an eviction notice. As some readers noted in the comments, the city followed through with …

I had hoped to have a long post here that finally dispelled the mystery around what happened to Wine World (400 NE 45th St). Since it first opened, it’s served as a gateway to Wallingford, a towering landmark over I-5. But the footprint! How c…

Reading the news used to be my favorite past time. My standing answer to the question “what do you want for your birthday?” has been “a comfy chair, the Sunday New York Times, and a snifter of brandy.” But it’s been hard to even look at…

A bolt of lightning during our brief afternoon snow flurry struck a power pole in West Wallingford. Seattle City Light crews are on their way to restore power. The outage seems fairly contained, judging from the map.  
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