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Congress has dedicated the third week of October as National Save for Retirement Week. Clearly, the government feels the need to urge people to do a better job of preparing for retirement. Are you doing all you can? 
Many of your peers aren’t –…MORE

By Peggy Sturdivant

I warned Leslie Pierson during our phone interview that I might have to interrupt her when the ship captain blew the horn. Although I don’t know her address in East Ballard I probably had a better sense of her…MORE

By Ann Selberg

For those who braved the weather on a dark and stormy Friday night, there was rich reward at the Earl Kelly Center for Performing Arts where the Ballard High Playmakers have mounted a terrific production of The Foreigner.…MORE

By Katy G. Wilkens

I drive by a quince tree on my way to work. One day I am going to stop and say, “Excuse me, I couldn’t help noticing you have ambrosia going to waste in your front yard; can I have your quince?” Quince makes the most…MORE

By Amanda Knox

The first Photo Sphere I ever saw transported me to the Valle de Cocora. I was standing in the middle of rolling hills so green they looked radioactive. I turned around myself, slack-jawed and gazing up at impossibly tall…MORE

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Congress has dedicated the third week of October as National Save for Retirement Week. Clearly, the government feels the need to urge people to do a better job of preparing for retirement. Are you doing all you can?


Many of your peers…MORE

By Pat Cashman

There was a movie on TV the other night. Lots of them, actually. But the one I watched had various sub-plots, none of them compelling.

But what makes the film notable is that it all centered on people eating…MORE

By Lindsay Peyton

Burien resident Mary E. Diederichs has her sights set on Hollywood – and she has hit her stride, moving toward her dream.

A woman of multiple talents, Diederichs has been steadily establishing herself in Seattle’s…MORE

By Gary Wasdin, King County Library System Director

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. To Kill a Mockingbird. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone… Three very different books that share a common thread. Each year, individuals across the…MORE