Hey! Wanna grab a drink? Yes, YOU! It's been a weird couple of years and we are eager to see our neighbors again! Join Wallyhood writers and editors out back at Murphy's for some appetizers, pitchers of beer and lots of neighborhood talk. Wallyhood is, after all, designed to elicit news, stories and gossip from the Wallingford neighborhood of Seattle, and where better to get all that than on a pub patio in the summertime?!
Congratulations to our own North Central Little League Seniors who won the Washington State tournament in Port Orchard, last Saturday. This combined team of 15-16 year olds from Northwest Little League, Ballard Little League, and North Central Little League played undefeated in the tournament. The team now heads to Oakland, CA for the regional Little League All Stars Seniors competition next week. We also sent a combined Seniors team as Washington State Champs to Regionals in 2019. NCLL is hosting a…
In East Wallingford, we are (mostly) accustomed to hearing a lot of typically urban sounds: the ever-present roar of the Ship Canal Bridge; the booming clanks of garbage, recycling, and yard waste pickup; the metallic buzz of sawzall tools as thieves steal your catalytic converter. But this morning, I heard some unfamiliar sounds. It was hammering, and what sounded like the “plink” of aluminum baseball bats at a high school game. I live across the street from the John Stanford International…
For over a year now, RVs belonging to the otherwise homeless have been parked along Northlake Way between Dunn Lumber and Westward. This has led to the accumulation of much trash (which the city tried to clean up in February, as we wrote about here), but also events such as fires. Now, the RVs have apparently been moved out. A reader writes: I am writing because I am cautiously optimistic that the public health nightmare that was the long line of…
Longtime Wallingford institution Archie McPhee’s celebrates its 39th anniversary with a one-day sale this Wednesday, July 13th—everything will be 39% off (get it?). That rubber chicken you've been eyeing for months, if not longer, can finally be yours! Store hours are 11A-7P. Personally, every time I go into the place, I see ghosts…mostly of the bottles of cheap rum that I bought there back in the day, when it was a state liquor store (remember those?).
Tyson Baty, local real estate agent and Wallingford neighbor shot this cool video about the 'hood. Check it out! I learned a few things myself.
The Friends of Meridian Playground (FOMP) are proposing to restore the historic orchard in Meridian Playground by replanting some of the fruit trees that have died and been removed. Some details of the plan were previously described in a Wallyhood post. Since then a poll has been completed by more than 100 neighbors, almost all of whom liked the proposal. Some folks preferred one part, some another. Now we all need to start work on making it happen. The Parks Department…