In October 2013, goats came to Wallingford.
If the comments on Jordan’s post back then are any indication, most of the neighborhood was delighted by the arrival of our new four-legged friends. The excitement doubled when, a week later, an autumn windstorm blew down the temporary fences corralling the goats, inciting Wallingford’s first “goat rodeo.”
The goats were quickly wrangled and resumed their assigned task of clearing brush and brambles in the open space directly under I-5, bordered by Upper and Lower NE 40th St, 4th Ave NE and 7th Ave NE. When the space was cleared, the goats were …

(Editor: Wallyhood welcomes Adam as a new contributor. Thanks for the first article! )

Is local favorite Bartell Drugs surviving the CVS juggernaut?

CVS opened its doors in late December, 2015 (2100 N 45th St). One of Wallyhood’s most popular articles compared three of the four pharmacies in the neighborhood. Fully 61% of respondents to an (unscientific) poll at the end of the article said they plan to “boycott CVS, alien invader and homogenizer of our fair neighborhood.”

I recently stopped into CVS and asked about business. An employee who’s worked there since the opening told me that they got …

Patty and Joe have lived at 4059 Latona for 53 years, but are spending this holiday in Lynnwood as they sort through recovering from the Halloween fire. Here’s a photo from their house in a happier holiday season:

Patty and Joe wanted to offer this message to community in appreciation for Bette’s caroling fundraiser and to let the community know where their recovery is at:

For the last few weeks the cleaning company and I have been going through the house room by room to remove the items, some can be saved and cleaned, others can be cleaned but the …

If you are in Wallingford you are probably aware of the gruesome accident where a Ducks vehicle slammed into a charter bus on the Aurora Bridge, killing 4 and wounding many more at lunch time today. Initial reports are of a vehicle malfunction, although the scene will remain under investigation for some time.
This “accident” is not really an accident, as an accident implies something unavoidable. Accidents just happen, but this sort of incident is the inevitable outcome of loop holes in our transportation infrastructure that are resulting in outdated, unsafe designs continuing on forever.
The first problem is that …