(This post originally appeared on Wallingford’s neighborhood blog Wallyhood. It was written by Wallywriter Liz. Thanks Wallyhood and Liz!) Major changes to King County Metro Our local public transit system is making some major changes in 2010. Along with the usual fare increase (its $0.25 this time), they’re also switching everything over to the new ORCA card system. I ordered mine and added a PugetPass online. It was fairly straightforward. If you usually use transit passes, you’ll need to get one of these new cards (unless you get them from your work – they’ll take care of it for you)….
December 2009
December 31, 2009 at 12:01AM
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A look back at 2009 in Green Lake
The 10 most viewed My Green Lake posts of 2009: 1 ) Green Lake Pathway of Lights coming on December 12 2 ) Free Pizza! Free Pizza! Free Pizza! 3 ) Tobey Maguire in Green Lake! 4 ) Luminata at Green Lake Tuesday at Dusk 5 ) Green Lake Celeb Lani Brooke 6 ) Places to Stay Cool in Green Lake 7 ) White Picket Fence 8 ) Brawl at Green Lake’s Little Red Hen 9 ) Skinny Dipping in the Lake Tonight 10 ) Naked pumpkin runners coming to Green Lake tonight! Guess we should write stories about naked…
December 30, 2009 at 8:47PM
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Organizer of Green Lake Naked Pumpkin Run charged with indecent exposure in relation to West Seattle event
Remember the Green Lake Naked Pumpkin Run? The organizer of the the Naked Pumpkin Run has been charged with indecent exposure for the role he played in organizing a similar event in West Seattle. What are your thoughts? Are events like these (a.k.a. naked events) indecent? Harmful to children who witness them? Awesome performance art? An important political statement? Are you looking forward to seeing these folks in Green Lake again next Halloween … or do you hope the long arm of the law reaches over here too?
December 30, 2009 at 5:35PM
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Nathan Hale students burglarize Bishop Blanchet locker room
From SeattleCrime.com: Arch Rivals: Hale Students Busted for Blanchet Basketball Burglary By Jonah Spangenthal-Lee Seattle police busted two teen burglars for a break-in during a high school basketball game at Bishop Blanchet High School earlier this month, a police report says. As the Blanchet Braves and Nathan Hale Raiders battled it out on the basketball court on the evening of December 18th, a police report says two Hale students snuck into a Blanchet locker room and made off with several iPods. A staff member spotted the two teens and called for help. The teens fled the school but were picked…
December 28, 2009 at 7:02PM
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Happy Birthday, Woodland Park Zoo!
On December 28, 1899, the Seattle City Council officially signed the paperwork purchasing the 141 acres that would become Woodland Park Zoo and surrounding parkland. Once owned by real estate tycoon Guy Phinney, the land and its collection of animals had become a burden for his widow after Phinney died in 1893, so it was sold to the growing city for $100,000 to be developed into a park. The purchase was controversial as many believed the land, located 5 miles north of downtown Seattle, was so far out into the countryside that no one would visit it! But generations of…
