Ever since my husband and I decided to install solar panels on our roof, we have frequently been asked by the solar-curious if it’s really worth it to install solar in rainy Seattle. The short answer: it’s worth it! Which is why I hang out by the mailbox whenever it’s electricity bill time – getting paid for the surplus electricity that our system has generated is truly electrifying!

For starters, we haven’t paid an electricity bill since we installed our solar panels 16 months ago. However, we aren’t completely off the grid. In the winter, we do use more electricity …

As we reported back in August, Dr. Springer and the staff at Wallingford Pediatrics said good-bye to Wallingford at the end of September. Wallingford Pediatrics had served the community since 1981, helping generations of Wallingford kids grow up healthy and answering bazillions of new-parent questions for new Wallingford parents.

Luckily, there wasn’t a pediatric void in Wallingford for long! Evergreen Pediatrics of Kirkland bought the practice, and pediatrician Dr. Basma Raees began seeing clients on October 1.

Dr. Springer wrote of his successor:

Dr. Raees completed her residency in pediatrics and adolescent medicine at the University of Illinois in Chicago. …