Eagle-eyed reader "Beads" spotted this listing on Craigslist today: STORE CLOSING - all must go! (Wallingford) Need to vacate our current store premises. All merchandise on sale up to 50%+ off! All fixtures, tables, chairs must go too! Not A Number Cards & Gifts Ay carumba! Not a Number closing? We checked in with Kara Ceriello from NaN who confirmed that they are closing their Wallingford shop, in as little as the next two weeks, but held out that the game…
Last week, School Superintendent Maria Goodloe-Johnson released a statement to all Seattle Public School families about the $36.6 million dollar budget shortfall for the 2011-12 school year. As a consequence, the School Board is faced with making decisions about what to fund and what to cut. Right now, there are two action items that require immediate public attention: one is for Seattle Public School families and the other is for homeowners citywide. Today, Seattle Public Schools released a survey for parents…
Calling all Wallingford green thumbs! The Greenhouse Project is looking to recruit some volunteers to help grow fresh and organic produce for local food banks. Volunteers will be dedicating their time towards growing thousands of vegetable starts in a lower Wallingford greenhouse, which then will be distributed by Lettuce Link to P-Patches around the city. All vegetables will then be donated to food banks. If you're interested in volunteering for the local greenhouse project there is an orientation and workshop on Saturday,…
Brian London and Justin Ivy wrote to tell us that half of a large Douglas Fir fell earlier today at 46th and Eastern, due to the high winds. The fallen tree is blocking 46th, so folks, be careful driving around there! Update from Brian at 4:51: Someone cut part of the tree away and SDOT came out and cordoned off the sidewalk but they left the rest, presumably because they need more equipment to safely remove the heavier, higher up portion.
It's 3 am, there's someone screaming in your dream. As you push up through the sticky morass of your slumber, you slowly realize there's someone screaming in real life, outside your window. There's a woman yelling at a car. Is she hurt? Drunk? Tweaking? Mentally ill? What are you supposed to do? When we ran a letter from the woman this happened to last week (Ruckus), a conversation ensued in the comments about what she should have done, which reminded me…
The Woodland Park Zoo can get kinda old if you're a member of it and have seen all the exhibits a couple times, and it can get even more stale for the animals themselves. Most animals figure out the routine and spend a lot of time napping, although the otters fortunately have acute ADHD. This is why you must visit the zoo for "enrichment activities". The most fun I've ever had at the zoo was at Pumpkin Bash- seeing an elephant…
It's only been a few weeks since we reported the good news about our neighborhood's beloved festering pit being transformed into Stoneway Village; but folks close by have already witnessed some action down there and, by gosh, it's a beautiful thing. Reader Denny sent us a few pictures, including the one featured on the right here, and added in e-mail that "the work appears pretty modest but it's becoming an active construction site. At this point it's just moving dirt around."…