Wallingford, Seattle

Goddess Festival: Kid-Friendly, Adult Happy

Tomorrow is the second (and, if the organizers have their way, the larger) of the two Wallingford music festivals, The Goddess Festival.  It runs from 11 am to 10:00 pm on Saturday in Meridian Park and includes a line-up of music, comedy, vendors and other funness. Now, if you're like us, when you think "music festival", you think mud-spattered pits of drunken twenty-somethings, passing poorly rolled joints and water bottles filled with Gatorade and Everclear. What, that's not how you spent your…

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Last call for food drive

A few days ago, we told you about the food drive organized by some very thoughtful neighborhood teens. Grace and her friends busily collected donations from people's porches yesterday, but she wanted to let everyone know that people can still drop food donations in bags at these drop points over the next few days: 3727 Burke Ave N 3634 Woodlawn Ave N 3814 Densmore Ave N Here's a pic of the girls today with some of the neighborhood's donations.  

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Thackeray Place to be resurfaced

Updated 1:47 PM with Rider Alert from Metro (see bottom) Heads-up, Eastern Wallingfordians (most notably, Thackeranians): paving crews will pave Thackeray Place NE between NE 42nd St. and NE 45th Street beginning tomorrow (Thursday, August 11) and again on Friday, August 12 and Tuesday, August 16 from 7am to 7pm (weather permitting). You may have noticed that the street surface has already been ground down to prepare for the new asphalt. The good news is that the crews will pave one…

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Jeffrey McCaslin to be sentenced on Friday

Back in May, we told you about Jeffrey McCaslin---the guy who called himself "Eric" and burglarized a few homes in the neighborhood. Then, two weeks later, we reported that he had been apprehended. Now, reader Anya tells us his sentencing is this Friday, and since hers was one of the homes burglarized, she'll be there to make a statement. She's provided information below, in case there are other neighbors who would also like to come forward: My house got broken into…

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Metro debunks myths about Metro

Or that's the idea anyway. Metro has sent out a reminder that the King County Council votes next week to implement a two-year $20 car tab fee, or to let the voters decide in November whether to cut 600,000 service hours. Yeah, that's 600,000 service hours.  The stakes are high for commuters. The King County Council will vote on Monday, August 15th.  Public testimony has been closed--the Council will take final action at the August 15 meeting. Included in the Metro…

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Goddess Festival in Wallingford

This Saturday, August 13th from 11 am - 10 pm is the second of two (unrelated) music festivals happening in August in Wallingford at Meridian Park: The Goddess Festival. Spearheaded by Tara Shuttleworth (also the Wallingford Art Walk coordinator for the past year), it's being billed as a fundraiser for local charities in addition to a rockin' good time: FREE and Open to the Public Three stages Local musicians, live art, theatrical performances and dancers Over thirty arts, crafts and food vendors…

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City Grown Wallingford

Hyperlocal is the new local, and that goes for veggies as well as news. Want some produce that's even more local than you can get at the Farmers Market? Let us introduce you to Noelani Alexander, Scott Behmer and the City Grown crew. Tomorrow (Monday) from 4 - 7 pm, they're holding their first farm stand sale at their home in Wallingford (4108 Eastern Ave N). What's on sale? Carrots, beets, sweet onions, lettuce, chard, kale*, broccoli, fingerling potatoes, summer squash,…

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