If you live in south Wallingford as I do, you probably pass by the site of the transfer station quite a bit on your way to Fremont and parts west. You remember the old transfer station, and you know that they're building a new one in more or less the same spot. But the project seems to be dragging on, and what were the specifics of that project, anyway? Time for another transfer station update! While most of us think of…
You may have noticed several new writers appearing here on Wallyhood over the past couple of weeks. This may be puzzling to you, as I announced back in January that I was turning the lights out on the blog. In the face of a Wallyhood blackout, a number of people from the Wallingford community offered to pitch in and make Wallyhood a shared community effort and resource. As it happens, this has always been my dream: that Wallyhood would become a collage of…
(Wallyhood welcomes Jack McLaughlin as writer and editor.) I was fortunate to go shopping up at the QFC last Monday. I normally consider myself indifferent to the task and exact location of my shopping, but I ran into Max who was distributing flyers encouraging interested neighbors to attend the HALA Community Conversation taking place at the Hamilton School on Wednesday (March 30). I had heard rumblings about this, and Max's flyer provided the additional incentive I needed to attend. Since the…
(Wallyhood welcomes Julie Martin, the first of a stream of new writers you'll be meeting in the coming weeks.) At night, the bright blaze of the Guild 45th marquee can make you feel like you’re standing in the middle of downtown, instead of the center of little Wallingford. As a teenager growing up in the neighborhood, it was especially great to have such a majestic movie house in walking distance. My best friend and I lived on opposite sides 45th and…
The western portion of the United States gets screwed by our current presidential primary and caucus system. The only state west of the Rockies that votes before March 22 for their party’s representative as Leader of the Free World™ is Nevada, which means a geographic third of the country is represented in the most crucial period of presidential politics by a state founded on brothels and blackjack. But you finally have a vote. This Saturday at 10:00am (arrive early if you…
Interested in meeting your Washington State Representative (and candidate to be your United States House Representative), Brady Walkinshaw? Jessica Trupin is hosting a meet and greet at her home here in Wallingford this Saturday, March 19th, 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM.
On March 6, I attended the Seattle Sounders opening match. After a disappointing 1-0 loss, 40,000 fans poured out of CenturyLink Field and filled the streets of Pioneer Square. For 20 minutes I waited for the route 26 or 512 to take me home to east Wallingford, but neither bus appeared. Just as well. Cars were at a standstill, my bus would’ve inched along Fourth Avenue to a gridlocked Third or I-5, stuck in Seattle’s worsening traffic. So I gave up…