May 23, 2010

This story has been updated since it was first posted. You weren’t imagining things Saturday night. At about 10 p.m. some loud booms began and didn’t let up for 15 minutes or more. From Wallingford, we could only tell that they were fireworks, coming from northwest of us. Our sister site MyBallard has heard from

What goes boom in the night?

May 22, 2010

Lower Wallingford will host hundreds of runners and walkers this morning for the The Heroes Half Marathon, which begins and ends at Gas Works Park. Two courses — a half-marathon and a 10K — take participants on a counter-clockwise path to the ship canal trail, the Burke-Gilman Trail and the trail around Lake Union before finishing

Sat.: Hundreds running Heroes half-marathon

May 21, 2010

Wallingford gets a colorful new addition to neighborhood today: The Sock Monster, at 1909 N. 45th Street. Stop by the grand opening party from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. to see the shop, hear some music, have a nosh, and meet owner Holly Gummelt. Holly has fulfilled the vision she described to us last month:

The Sock Monster opens today

May 21, 2010

It’s Bike to Work Day, and we and our news partners The Seattle Times are wondering just how safe you are getting from here to there on two wheels. We’re also looking for commute stories, not just from today, but any good tales of biking to work. If you’d rather NOT share the road with

Tell us your stories about biking to work

May 20, 2010

The wait is over. We now know which of three designs will grace the portal to both Wallingford and Fremont on N. 46th Street under Aurora Ave. Here’s the announcement from the 46th Street Mural Street Project, with visualizations of how the underpass will look when the mural is completed this summer. See Todd Lown’s

46th Street Mural Project has a winner