We received this note from Dawn Rutherford, the Supervising Librarian of our neighborhood branch:

Just wanted to let everyone know that due to Omicron hitting so hard we’ve had a ton of unexpected closures. In order to try and have more predictable hours for folks, The Seattle Public Library is temporarily reducing hours at all our locations. More information can be found at https://www.spl.org/hours-and-locations/road-to-reopening. The Wallingford Library will temporarily be open just three days a week.

Wallingford Branch Hours:

If you’re dying for Himalayan food – perhaps a dal bhat – then you’re out of luck if your destination is the Himalayan Sherpa House in Tangletown. It is permanently closed. But if you’re fancying some delicious “seasonal northwest comfort food” then Restaurant Christine, now open in the Himalayan Sherpa House space, may be for you.

The owner and head chef at Restaurant Christine is Adam Furler. Furler held a stealthy, “super soft” opening of his place back on October 1, but plans something grander in the (hopefully near) future. “I still have done no advertising due to covid and …

Many readers of Wallyhood get notifications of our stories sent to their email inboxes. When a new story is published, these folks get to see the first few lines of each story and a link back to our site if they would like to read more. (If you’d like to sign up, you can find the form in the right sidebar of our home page. Just enter your email address, and first and last names.)

A few weeks ago, we had a technical problem that prevented these notifications from going out. That has now been fixed. However, if you count …

Seattle Public Utilities announced last week that they would be canceling their Friday collection back on December 31 due to “remaining icy and unsafe conditions.” If you were scheduled for a Friday pick up, like me, or your pick up last week was missed for any other reason, what do you do now?

SPU has this message:

All collections are scheduled to resume next week starting Monday, Jan 3. All missed residential customers are permitted to set out double their normal amount of garbage, recycling, and compost on their collection day for no additional charge. This includes recycling collection, even …

Following on the heels of the completion, earlier this year, of the bike path along East Green Lake Way, the city is now making plans to finish this “outer loop” by adding a path along the west side of the lake. The vision is for separated lanes for walking and biking to be added to Aurora Avenue and West Green Lake Way. While funds have been allocated for the planning phase of this project, money for the actual construction has yet to be identified.

The multi-use path around Green Lake immediately near the water (the “inner loop”) is, …

Well, it looks as if the Seattle Times has scooped us once again with this story about cement falling from the I-5 bridge. The one sentence summary is that, while small chunks of concrete have been falling off the underside of the bridge for some time, no one is known to have been hit, and WSDOT insists the bridge is safe to drive on. In an abundance of caution, the Seattle parks department has closed two parks, the South Point Passage Park on the south side of the bridge and the North Point Passage Park in our neighborhood. That still …

Yes, it’s been a while. Over a year, in fact. Late last summer, after wrestling with a spam problem on our forums for a few months, we regretfully made the decision to shut them down. Not only did there seem to be no easy solution, but with the pandemic in full bloom, we here at Wallyhood had less time to devote to this blog overall.

We recently revisited this problem with fresh eyes, and we’ve come up with some new solutions. We hope that these fixes will stick, but there are no guarantees, of course. While we don’t want to …