If this past weeks’ weather wasn’t enough to convince you that Winter has finally surrendered to Spring, turned in her sleet and shivers, and seen them bagged and tagged, then tucked in the safe where she can claim them in the Fall, if Wallingfordians frolicking about the May Pole in Gas Works Park left you still not entirely sure we had transitioned from the cold wet season to the tepid wet season, then get yourself to Meridian Park this Wednesday for some incontrovertible evidence of the change, because Wednesday kicks off the always popular, bucolic Wallingford Farmers Market.

The Wallingford …

I’d like your opinion on something. Let’s call it the “Sidewalk Squeeze”.

Your typical Wallingford sidewalk is three squares wide, each square measuring 2′ across. That adds up to a healthy 6′ of breadth, enough that someone stumbling home from a late night at the Leny’s or the Grizzled Wizard can do a bit of weaving without trampling anyone’s lawn.

But, of course, Wallingford is home to many a healthy garden and a bevy of bushes, many of which encroach on that 6′. A slew of succulents sluicing the cement, a mass of moss meandering across the walkway, or a …

The saga of the old house at 41st and Meridian has a new chapter: this morning, bulldozers showed up and knocked her down.

The house itself has been unoccupied for as long as I can remember, at least a decade if not two. For a long time, the lawn was carefully mowed and hedges trimmed (although they were allowed to slowly consume an old 1950’s era car, creating an unintentional bit of yard art), but the interior was hidden behind curtains. Unfortunately, a few years back, squatters moved in and started selling off the furniture that was left inside for …

Today (May 10) is the Seattle Foundation’s annual GiveBIG event, a one-day online charitable fiesta. Over 1,700 non-profits are participating, with over 600 having secured $1:$1 matching funds for donations made today, so it’s a great opportunity to double the impact of your donation. Visit GiveBIG’s website to find an organization that is working on issues you care about.

In honor of the day, we invited Joey Ashenbrenner, Development and Resource Manager for Wallingford’s FamilyWorks to share some stories about what that organization is doing to make the world a better place.

What would it be like for your family …

This Saturday, April 29th, from 2:00 – 3:30 PM, the Jae H. Kim Taekwon-Do Institute (1900 N 45th St) will offer their 10th annual free women’s self-defense workshop:

Learn the strategies and gain the knowledge to arm yourself against a possible attack! Our women’s only class (appropriate for ages 12 and older) will cover the crime process, strategies for self-defense, and self-defense techniques.

There is no cost, and pre-registration is not required. Wear casual, comfortable clothes and come prepared to kick ass.…

Here’s something going on this week that you can only catch only two places in the world: at Vrijplaats Middelstegracht in Leiden, Netherlands and at the Good Shepherd Center here in Wallingford.

The Drone Cinema Film Festival, now in its third year, showcases cutting-edge, ethereal works of drifting beauty that bring sonic drones into the visual realm. This year’s festival,whose theme is GOLD, takes place again at Vrijplaats in Leiden, Netherlands, as well as a brand new location in Seattle, Washington. Cascone said about the new Seattle location, “We had to find a larger venue due to having standing room …

Miyabi (2208 N. 45th St), the Japanese restaurant on 45th Street, has re-opened with a brand new menu and concept. I asked Chef Kunise Stroh to tell us about the change, and she obliged:

Miyabi 45 was closed for one week at the end of March, and we reopened on April 1st with a new menu and concept.

When we first opened in 2013, we did not serve any sushi or sashimi because there were already a few restaurants in Wallingford which specialize in just that.

Instead, at first, we focused on traditional Japanese buckwheat noodle, called “soba” (teuchi-soba). Buckwheat, …