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By Peggy Sturdivant

Last week the Mayor and Seattle Police Department announced a strategy to deal with a 9.5 block area of downtown Seattle that has been described as a gantlet of disorder and illegal activity. Meanwhile two City Council…MORE

By Pat Cashman

I was in the 7th grade at catholic school---and very worried.

Teachers didn’t normally tell a kid to stay after class unless there was trouble brewing. So when Sister Mildred Marie told me to stick around…MORE

By Amanda Knox

ArtsWest is signing off their 2014-2015 season with a show that artistic director Mathew Wright admits is “ridiculous.” It’s thigh-jiggling, cornflake-tossing, spiky-haired fun.

It’s also much more than that. What…MORE

information from Southwest Seattle Historical Society

Jan Koutsky won the prestigious Teacher's Choice Award from the International Reading Association for her book, My Grandma, My Pen Pal (Boyds Mills Press - April 2002) for its…MORE

By Amanda Knox

Tonight at 7:30pm ArtsWest Theatre will open its production of Angry Housewives. Written and originally produced by Seattleites A.M. Collins (book) and Chad Henry (music and lyrics) in 1983, the punk-rock musical was a cult…MORE

by Georgie Bright Kunkel

If you lived in a little village in the last century you would associate with a few people living close by and news would travel by word of mouth from village to village. The rich landowners and the peasants…MORE

By Peggy Sturdivant For days after emerging from the Literacy Council of Seattle office in the basement of the church on NW 85th I’d think, imagine doing something that makes you feel good every single day. Promoting literacy has always struck me…MORE

There’s no doubt Ballard is undergoing unprecedented change. Large apartment buildings are being erected and new architecture is changing the face of Old Ballard. Businesses are opening and closing, and with them gone are the signs and iconic…MORE

Before Robert Spector came to West Seattle 38 years ago, he was a Chicago guy. He was pretty much broke (his words) and looking for something to do.

He met famous N.W. photographer Jerry Gay in downtown Seattle. Gay offered him an…MORE

By Pat Cashman

As I write this I am sitting at Sea-Tac airport. I want to catch some sleep---so I’ve decided to climb into a plane’s cargo hold. It’s apparently the thing to do when you need a quick nap. Once you awaken, just bang on…MORE