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Sometimes the door to our 45th Street apartment building won’t open because there is someone sleeping on the other side using a morning newspaper as a pillow. As I wedge my bike through the door, signs of my “normal” day begin: passengers piling on the 44, regulars streaming from the coffee shop, and kids walking to school. When my husband and I moved to Wallingford four years ago, I only saw evidence of homelessness when spotting the odd tent or two…

We've all faced that dilemma: you've got something perfectly good, that you just don't want: an old chair that it would just be a shame to throw away (it's got lots of life left in it), a beautiful dress (it will fit someone, just not me), or maybe a lamp (need one that doesn't clash with the new sofa). So what do you do with it? Don't throw it away, and no need to carry it all the way to the Goodwill…

So where are you watching the final presidential debate this Wednesday, 6 - 9 pm?  FamilyWorks and The Seattle Public Library are hosting a pizza and debate watching party in their conference room at 1501 N 45th St. Pizza is first come, first serve. BYO Tylenol.

This week, The Stranger (aka “Seattle’s Only Newspaper”) is celebrating the 25th anniversary of its first issue. I moved to Seattle in 1992 and, like many Seattleites, I have had a love/hate relationship (mostly love) with the publication ever since. The Stranger is so closely identified with Capitol Hill, that it was much to my surprise to read in this week’s An Oral History of the First Year of The Stranger that the newspaper’s birthplace wasn’t on Broadway or Pine, but…

Looks like Wallingford weathered Friday's wind without too much trouble: the worst I saw was a bunch of windfall apples rolling around the streets. Saturday is the big day, though, with Cliff Mass reporting "the big storm will be[Saturday], late afternoon and evening": I have looked at the latest forecast model output and they are all on pretty much the same page, which increases forecast confidence substantially.  The bottom line is that we have a  dangerous storm, comparable to the 2006 Chanukah…

Rainy days and time for fall decluttering! Bring your donations for Goodwill and those Styrofoam chunks and peanuts, and even bubblewrap and shrinkwrap to this collection event sponsored by the Wallingford Community Council. It all happens on Saturday, October 15 from 1 pm – 5 pm at the church parking lot behind Dick’s Drive-In on NE 45th in Wallingford.  Enter on Second Avenue NE into the parking lot of Seattle First Church of the Nazarene.  Here are the guidelines for donations…

Back in July, the city opened the Micro Community Policing Plans website offering citizens a far more detailed look than was available previously into how criminal activities were distributed across neighborhoods and what specific crimes were being committed. This website breaks crimes down into 8 major categories (4 categories of crimes against persons and 4 of crimes against property) and 68 subcategories which include, for example, 8 different types of theft. The data goes back to 2008, and is downloadable as an…