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By Amanda Knox

I’m not ready.

Sure, I’ve trained. I did a pretty good job too, the first four of eight weeks. I ran three days a week, two short days and one long day, each week adding another half mile to the short days and a mile…MORE

Photo by Patrick Robinson on Alki Beach.

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note: This is a re-post of a column by our former publisher Jerry Robinson who passed away in 2014.

by Jerry Robinson

Sometimes my wife, who is only the world’s greatest cook, gets full up to here with stuffing the stomachs of the…MORE

By Pat Cashman

I knew the U.S. visit of Pope Francis last week was big when I even saw news of it on those shows like Entertainment Tonight, Access Hollywood and TMZ. I can’t swear to it but I thought I heard the following on-air…MORE

The Mayor of Ballard is a dog named Odin. It follows then that the Ambassador of Ballard must be his human owner, David Tuthill.

Tuthill is a blacksmith. He knows the streets and buildings of Ballard like the burns on the backs his hands…MORE

By Peggy Sturdivant Diana Gardiner first contacted me on March 13, 2015. She was a newly trained volunteer Tree Ambassador as part of the City of Seattle’s reLeaf program. She had just led her first Tree Walk in Ballard and wondered if I’d be…MORE

By Pat Cashman

Old Man Walters lived two doors down from us. In fairness, Mr. Walters probably wasn’t all that old, but when I was a kid anybody that had a job and real responsibilities was old.

Old Man Walters was a mill-…MORE

The class of 1965 will be presenting a granite and brass Memorial Plaque of all Sealth graduates that were killed in action in Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan at sometime in the near future.

They are attempting to notify the families of…MORE

by Ken Robinson

Michael and Gloria Colasurdo will have been married 70 years Oct. 6, 2015. There is a long story here. But the heart of it is about family, about staying the course, having a lot of friends and a sunny outlook on life.…MORE

by Sarah Cecil

If you work for a fairly sizable company, you may be entering your open enrollment season, when you can add or adjust your employer-sponsored benefits. While you probably should review all your benefits, you may want to pay…MORE