Wallingford, Seattle

Transfer Station Update

As we've reported here in the past (e.g., News from the Dump and Dump Update), the city's efforts to update the Solid Waste Transfer Station (aka the dump) at 34th and Carr is making slow headway in the face of resident law suits. Here's the latest, courtesy of Cole Gainer and cribbed from the excellent Wallingford eNews: The King County Superior Court recently affirmed the Seattle Hearing Examiner’s 10/20/08 decision that an environmental impact statement is not required for the North…

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Sign Wonderfulness

Thanks to a bit of community reporting, we bring you photos of guerrilla art from 39th and Bagley. Christina e-mailed us yesterday and asked if  we had seen the "most excellent signs at 39th and Bagley". We had not! And our schedule prevented us from making a foray over there to investigate. So we sent out a plea to Twitter: anyone with a camera near 39th and Bagley, please send us shots of what we're missing. Shortly thereafter, Lee sent us…

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Pole Fire

Thanks to My Green Lake's industrious working of the Twitter, we learned that there was a pole fire in Woodland Park tonight. Who ever heard of a pole fire? Well, here's a picture snapped by Joe Sunga. Apparently, an electric line snapped, hit the pole with sparks and ba-boom! A good old fashioned pole fire. Doesn't sound like anyone was hurt, but a kickball game was cancelled, for which we offer our deep condolences.

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Yard Vandalism

Jupiterwise posted this to the Wallyhood Forums yesterday: This afternoon I returned to my house near 40th and Corliss to discover that someone had stomped on our lavender and rosemary bushes, ripping off several branches, tore out a bunch of plants from our parking strip, and worst of all, took our terra cotta planting pot with two baby ginkgo trees and smashed it in our driveway. I remember hearing a year or two ago about other gardens in the general vicinity…

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Vote

Remember, you have until tomorrow to postmark your ballot for Seattle's primary and special election, including your vote for Mayor and for the plastic grocery bag fee. We held an unofficial straw poll for Seattle Mayor of our readers. Here are the results of the 87 votes cast: Interestingly, while 87 people have voted in our mayoral poll, 113 voted on our Wallingford t-shirt design suggestions. This is not out of line with the generally tepid response commenters had to the…

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Pirates and Pipsqueaks

Sounds like there's some good old fashioned fun to be had this coming Sunday at Solid Ground: Pirates and Pipsqueaks, an old fashioned carnival with old fashioned prizes for kids of all ages, will take place Sunday, August 23rd from 12:00 to 5:00 p.m. in the Solid Ground parking lot (1501 N. 45th St). Vintage carnival games will include Dunk the Pirate, Walk the Plank, Bean Bag Toss, Ducks in the Pond, Balloon Darts, Bottle Ring Toss, Giant Bubbles, and lots…

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Arson in North Seattle?

This report submitted by Lower Wallingford Correspondent, Chris Witwer. The Seattle Fire Department is warning residents that a series of fires in the Greenwood neighborhood were intentionally set.   There have been at least 4 suspicious fires in the area in the last two months -- two of them rather recently. In addition, two abandoned buildings on the western edge of the UW campus were torched last night, according to King 5.  Fire investigators aren't saying the fires are all connected, but…

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