Monthly Archives: January 2009

Did you know that if you adopt a mile or more of street, agreeing to clean it at least four times per year, the city will not only provide you cleaning supplies (garbage bags, shovels, rakes, graffiti removal kits, etc.) but will install two signs in your adopted area with your group’s name on it? Neither did I! But it’s true.

Thus, the active membership of the semi-fictitious East Wallingford Hot Tub Association, inspired as much by dreams of pristine streets as by the idea of official city signs declaring East Wallingford Hot Tub Association turf, coffee’d themselves up and …

Welcome to Wallyhood.org, the neighborhood blog for Wallingford, Seattle. Fair game for the blog include neighborhood events, business openings and closings, police blotter reports, resident profiles, found objects, and pretty much anything relevant to that little area East of Stone Way, West of I-5, South of 60th and North of the Lake that we call home. Story ideas may come from the Wallingford Community Council, Wallingford Chamber of Commerce, Weaving Wallingford, neighborhood gossips, meddling kids and the occasional snake oil salesman.

We’ll be encouraging neighborhood cooperation, such as a backyard produce swap day, and encouraging information sharing, such as a …