Wallingford, Seattle

Trinh posted this note to the Green Lake Moms list, we thought we'd extend the call-out for help: My husband and two little kids (3yoa daughter and 5yoa son) were coming home from Meridian Park yesterday (Sunday) afternoon at around 4:30P.M. and were crossing 50th Street at the crosswalk (at 50th and Keystone) when they were hit by a black Camaro.  My husband and kids were already in the crosswalk when the black Camaro approached the intersection on Keystone without slowing down…

SFD is on the scene at 35th & Wallingford, responding to a report of an upstairs fire in an abandoned single family home. It doesn't look like there's any major structural damage or injuries, but the fire department is using some equipment that sounds like maybe a generator or saw. If we learn more, we'll let you know. By the way -- if you were one of those cars driving on Wallingford Avenue tonight competing with the 5 or 6 fire…

Every so often we get an e-mail from a reader asking why we don't cover some particular topic. Usually, the answer is "we don't know anything about it, but tell us more and we'd be happy to." But there's another piece to it: the "Wallyhood We" conceit is just that: a conceit. There really isn't a "we". Mostly, there's one guy who writes this when his day job is over and his baby boy is in bed. Which means we...I, really…

Erica writes: Any idea what's up at the Bartell pharmacy? I went in this a.m. to pick up a prescription and everything was fine — they were just busy, so they asked if I could come back in an hour, and they'd call when it was ready. When I didn't hear back, I called them — and was told there had been an "incident" so they were closed for the rest of the day. They diverted my prescription to the U…

Dan writes: Did anyone else see this guy examining houses from the sidewalk this weekend [Monday on 1st NE between 40th and Pacific and Tuesday on 40th between 1st NE and Sunnyside]? Long, straight hair, a goatee, slippers and a bathrobe and he's standing on the sidewalk hovering in front of houses, peering in and the like. I saw him yesterday and again this morning. Maybe the city has issued new uniforms?

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