As I did for 2016 and 2017, I've compiled a list of Wallyhood's top ten stories from 2018 using this site's analytics. The stories below are ranked using page views, and while some of our forum posts are pretty highly viewed, I haven't included them since they are not really stories. To qualify for this list, a story had to have been written in 2018, so older stories that may have gained a lot page views in 2018 don't count. In…
It's the end of a long day at work, you've made it across the ship canal bridge, down the morass of 45th Street backups, maneuvered through the obstacle course of traffic circles and finally arrive on your own street. But as you creep past your house, you're frustrated to see there are no available parking spaces close to home. As you gaze longingly at the spot in front of your house, your spot, you note with a bit of bile that…
(Wallyhood welcomes all members of our community to contribute to this group blog. This article comes from Elena, a seventh-grader at Hamilton International Middle School. If you would like to contribute, please contact us at [email protected] with your story ideas.) Hello everyone! I am a local Wallingford girl and my name is Elena. I’m in 7th grade at Hamilton International Middle School. Recently I did an interview with the owners of The Cubes Bakery on 45th Street (2315 N 45th St)…
After suffering through so much bad news last week (federal shutdown, stock market crash, and all that other government CRAP), I was happy to receive a spot of good news in our mail here at Wallyhood that helped to put things into perspective: Dear Wallyhood editors, My name is Laura and I live close to QFC with my husband, cat, and adorable year old Rohan. I wanted to share with you a story of how community comes together and the joys…
On Friday, the Gas Works Park play area opened after work to remediate arsenic below ground. Or more correctly, the play area opened again. I wrote about the remediation plan late last year noting that the park would be mostly open during this work. The work was followed by a renovation of many of the facilities including the play area. This, naturally, required a closing of said facilities. They reopened back in October as we wrote about here. Why, even the…
Back in late November, I wrote about some sightings of a coyote dubbed “Wally.” I asked for any more photos that folks may have taken of him (or her). A few have trickled in. See the gallery below. I also heard back from the zoo which, some readers have suggested, may have more information about this particular coyote. They didn’t seem to have any first-hand information about Wally, but there’s this: Hello Jack, We wanted to update you that within a…
If you live in one of the new Restrict Parking Zones in Wallingford, your grace period of parking without a permit is over. I spied a parking enforcement officer getting ready to write up my neighbor's truck on Friday, and when I went out to try to call her off ("wait, I'll grab them and have them move it"), she said not to worry, it was just a warning, but that they would begin ticketing "for real" on Monday. That makes…