Election season is upon us! Will the Democrats hold on to their tenuous lead in the Senate? Who knows? We have no say in it! Patty Murray isn’t up for re-election until 2016 and Maria Cantwell sits tight until 2018.

But, we do have a few things that we can vote on, including Proposition 1, a Seattle-only alternative to the King County Proposition 1 transit bill that lost a special election this August. The Wallingford members of the Environmental Caucus of the 43rd District Democratic Organization sent in this policy statement on our new Prop 1:

Transit Vote Comes Round …

While this is probably old news to pretty much everyone but me, Kite Hill, and most of the mid-section of Gas Works Park is closed, and will remain so until Memorial Day 2015. I mean, yeah, Lee posted about it on these very pages back in February, but somehow it didn’t sink in that this towering icon of our neighborhood would be off-limits for eight months.

So, yeah, Kite Hill is closed until May 2015. They’re replacing all of the topsoil with clean topsoil in advance of offshore sediment clean-up planned for the future. The issue is that there are …

Chris Harmon writes:

I stopped at Dick’s for a soft drink.  As I got out of my car a 20-something fella came trotting over asking if the car I was in was mine.  I said yes then he said he had noticed a couple of dings and scratches and said he could fix them on the spot. I replied with a firm and annoyed NO.  He didn’t try to convince me.  I watched where he went and it was to his fancy black shiny pickup with Washington license plates parked along the footpath on Dick’s property.  There were 2 or …

The Wallingford Boys & Girls Club (1310 N. 45th St) presents its annual Halloween Hoopla event next Saturday, October 25th from 6 – 9 pm:

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Don Ford, Lincoln High Class Representative ’49, writes:

LINCOLN LYNX ALUMNI ASSOCIATION ANNUAL MEETING will be held on Saturday, October 18 at 1pm in the Little Theater at Lincoln High School. ALL LINCOLN LYNX ARE WELCOME! The meeting will start at 1pm with light refreshments to follow, Entrance to the Little Theater is on N. 43rd (south side of bldg). A tour of the building will be available if you so desire.

Remember, Lincoln High is schedule to RE-OPEN, with an estimated re-opening date of Fall 2019. The estimated construction date for the remodel is set for June 2018. This …