Generally, we try to keep our stories about Wallingford and its people. This is mostly because we know that if we broadened it to "stuff around Wallingford" and "things Wallingford people might care about", we'd be overwhelmed with all the things to be written about, and the enormity of it would drive us under a pile of sweaters in the back of a dark closet, cooing and rocking ourselves to comfort. But, it's a slow news day, so we're going to…
We couldn't stand it. Every day, we'd be out, strolling around the neighborhood, and there they were: two trees full of the brightest golden plums you've ever seen. They ripened and ripened and eventually began to fall, big fat raindrop splashes of juicy plums, wasted windfall. We admit it: we wanted them! So this past Saturday, we got up our gumption and knocked on the door. Nobody was home, but we did notice a package waiting for pick-up, addressed to a…
As avid newswatchers know by now, KOMO (or their parent, Fisher Interactive) has entered the "hyperlocal" blogging fray with a suite of 43 neighborhood blogging sites around the greater Seattle area. There is, of course, a Wallingford version (although many of its stories appear to be copy-and-pasted over from other KOMO neighborhood blogs). We'd be lying if we said we didn't feel a bit threatened, a big media company like that, with all its resources, coming crashing into the little story-corner…
Today's chef demonstration at the Wallingford Farmer's Market should be interesting: it features Chef Wali Khairzada of Kabul Afghan Cuisine (4 pm at Wallingford Center). It's mid-August, so just crazy amounts of fruits and veggies are all coming ripe, there's no better time to stop by the market and stock up on the fresh: tomatoes, melons, beans, sweet corn, peppers, the list goes on. 3 - 6 pm today (Wednesday).
Kathleen Byrnes from the Wallingford Senior Center dropped us a note: We are trying to create some nice portraits of life here at the senior center to display at our upcoming fundraising event in October. Do you happen to know of any photographers in the area that might be up for stopping by for a few photo shoots in the next couple of weeks? It would required dropping by at pre-arranged times when we have specific programs here and taking photos.…
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…
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…