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After a few months soliciting citizen input, City Light is on the verge of installing two electric vehicle (EV) chargers at Gas Works Park. Last Thursday, January 17, an open house was held at the John Stanford School to explain the plans. I headed over there to get the scoop. City Light plans to install 20 charging stations at 10-15 locations in Seattle according to their EV information webpage. Chargers are already installed on Beacon Hill not far from the light…

A cherry and ebony toolbox created as a student project last Fall. Note: Anyone who thinks they might be interested in Ebanista is invited to attend an open house on Saturday from 2 to 3 PM. Last Fall, the Ebanista School of Fine Woodworking opened its doors with its first lineup of classes as Ben wrote about here. While the school is located by Green Lake near Gregg's Cycles (not our usual beat), its owner, Jonathan Cohen, has been a Wallingford…

We received word from a reader recently that eminent Wallingford resident Linda Waterfall has died. Linda was a singer and songwriter of some renown who passed away on January 8 after a long illness according to her website. She was 69. Waterfall's career spanned several decades -- from the seventies until the present. While her Wikipedia page lists her as an “American folk musician,” she described her music as having jazz, blues, rock and classical influences as well. During her long…

The upzones are coming! The upzones are coming! (Can you picture me riding my horse through Wallingford and sounding the alarm just like Paul Revere?) But seriously, the City Council is moving forward. On January 7, the City had the first of five special committee meetings to discuss the HALA MHA upzones. A public hearing has been scheduled for February 21 and a final City Council vote is set for March 18. Yikes. There’s currently a glut of empty luxury apartments…

Unless SDOT has a change of heart in the coming months (as they’ve recently been known to do), cyclists will have a safer way to travel between lower Wallingford and the heart of Fremont, beginning in 2020. Existing bike lane on North 34th Street With funding from the 2015 Levy to Move Seattle, three potential design alternatives for protected bike lanes on North 34th Street between Stone Way and Fremont Avenue were pitched to the public via in-person forums and online…