Beginning next year, SDOT will be undertaking a major repaving project in Wallingford and Green Lake, including repaving on 40th, 50th, Green Lake Way, 80th, over 500 upgraded accessible curb ramps and more.

For a full rundown on the project, see SDOT’s Green Lake and Wallingford Paving & Multi-Modal Improvements page and offer your feedback online through the paving project Online Open House. Better yet, get yourself to one of the in person, live, face-to-face (“retro”) open houses coming up at the Good Shepherd Center and

If you’d like to chat with the folks from SDOT about the many paving …

Have you been craving a little Shakespeare in your life, but fear the long drive to Ashland for the Oregon Shakespeare Festival? Or maybe the typical Shakespeare presentation is a tad too lengthy for your taste? Well, now is your chance to see an abbreviated version of two of Shakespeare’s plays right at our own Wallingford Playfield.

The plays are presented by Seattle’s Greenstage which offers a number of programs, among them their Shakespeare in the Park series, a full-length version of Shakespeare’s plays. The Backyard Bard series offers shorter versions of the original plays which is what Greenstage is …

The friendly neighborhood burger joint completes a year.

What do ‘Folsom Prison Bleu’ and ‘Chili Nelson’ have in common? Well, they immediately remind us of country music stalwarts Johnny Cash and Willie Nelson. But they are also the names of delicious cheeseburgers at the friendly neighborhood burger joint, Wallyburger.

Wallyburger celebrated its very first birthday last month with what else, but a special out-of-the-menu burger – The Bacamole (House-made Guacamole, Bacon, ⅓ lb patty, Pepper Jack cheese, Lettuce). The restaurant is located at 1719 N 45th St, and while you must go there for the moreish burgers – you’ll find …

If you’re just finding out about this now, then it’s probably a bit too late to round up some friends, locate 50-100 milk cartons and construct a vessel that actually floats. But you can still swing on by Green Lake this Saturday between 10:30 and 5:00, and watch the folks who were able to get it together and build a craft.

The Seafair Milk Carton Derby, in its 47th year this year, takes place in the southwest corner of the lake near the boat house. As usual, there will be vendor booths and food to be had, so starvation should …

Jake Weber, Executive Director of FamilyWorks, sent this thank you note for Molly Moon’s:

Did you know that Molly Moon’s Homemade Ice Cream recently celebrated its 10th anniversary in Wallingford? This shop is Molly’s original site (now there are eight) and has been a destination for thousands of visitors to Wallingford each year for scrumptious, locally sourced handmade ice cream. What you might not know is that because of Molly’s strong humanitarian values, thousands of FamilyWorks’ food bank customers have access to better nutrition because of the weekly milk and dairy products they receive via Molly Moon’s Anna Banana Milk …

The developers of new townhouses are holding an open house for the community on Tuesday, July 10th, from 5:30-7:00 p.m. at Zoka (2200 N 56th St.).  The new townhouses will be located beside the Burgundian. The flyer for the event can be downloaded here.

The community has had a lot of thoughts about development and density. This is a great opportunity to discuss these topics with the developers themselves. Get the developers views on parking, the impact of HALA on their decision-making process, or what the Tangletown Commercial District (NC1 -30) means?  For that last one, their image was the …