This post comes to us from John Klees, Marketing and Operations specialist with the Snow Leopard Trust, located in Good Shepherd Center. 

After over a year of pandemic lockdowns and social distancing, I have vowed to never take our city’s parks and community spaces for granted. And a recent tour of Wallingford’s Good Shepherd Center and Meridian Playground further cemented this rejection of complacency. Throughout the tour our group was reminded that the existence of these parks, and specifically this beautiful building and accompanying playground, did not happen easily or overnight. Through the stained-glass windows of the chapel and among …

We hope to see you there!

6pm-8pm — Come share your neighborhood gossip, pester the writers with story ideas, consider writing a story or two yourself or jumping in as an editor!

We can’t wait to see the neighborhood for a mid-summer hang and maybe even some heated dialogue about RV parking and outdoor cats!

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The Coyotes eat the cats who eat the rats who eat the trash…but where do the crows fit in?

Being top of the food chain, Wally-humans may not fear for our own safety when we see a legged or winged predator, but a quick glance at any of the neighborhood facebook groups reminds us that we have a lot of opinions on the growing number of coyote sightings in the neighborhood.  A heated debate has emerged on the topic of outdoor cats — some fearing for the safety of their free-roaming feline friends and others essentially taking the side of …

This post comes to us from neighbor Patricia Bannister. 

Wallingford has 10 public access points to Lake Union. Yes, 10! And we explored each one on June 28 during a guided neighborhood tour that was organized as part of the Visions of Wallingford community filmmaking project.

Our tour leaders were Lee Raaen and Ted Hunter, who have been diligently studying the complex ownership and management of the 23 numbered waterways. These parcels of shoreline along Lake Union are partially intended to provide public access for the surrounding communities. Currently, they are managed by The Washington State Dept of National Resources, …

The Seattle Department of Transportation is offering a very unusual way for you to comment on traffic problems you may wish to see fixed in Wallingford. Do you want a way to safely cross Greenlake Way? Do you want faster traffic on N 45^th so you don’t have to wait for pedestrians or stop at red lights? Do you want bicycle-only streets? Well, here is an opportunity to sound off.

Rather than some multiple-choice questionnaire they are offering an interactive map where you can leave comments specific to a particular location. First, go to their website by clicking here.  …

Hey! Wanna grab a drink? Yes, YOU!

It’s been a weird couple of years and we are eager to see our neighbors again!

Join Wallyhood writers and editors out back at Murphy’s for some appetizers, pitchers of beer and lots of neighborhood talk. Wallyhood is, after all, designed to elicit news, stories and gossip from the Wallingford neighborhood of Seattle, and where better to get all that than on a pub patio in the summertime?!

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Congratulations to our own North Central Little League Seniors who won the Washington State tournament in Port Orchard, last Saturday. This combined team of 15-16 year olds from Northwest Little League, Ballard Little League, and North Central Little League played undefeated in the tournament.

The team now heads to Oakland, CA for the regional Little League All Stars Seniors competition next week. We also sent a combined Seniors team as Washington State Champs to Regionals in 2019.

NCLL is hosting a fundraiser to off-set travel costs. Please join us in the excitement by making a 100% tax-deductible donation. Any amount …