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Merry Christmas West Seattle! All of us at the West Seattle Herald, Highline Times, Ballard News Tribune and our print edition the Westside Weekly wish you the best this holiday season.

by Georgie Bright Kunkel

There are numerous appreciation days celebrated in this country--

Veterans Day, Mother’s Day, Father’s Day just to name a few. But in a society that reveres the fat cats of the world, it is unusual to…MORE

By Peggy Sturdivant

Just think how many people stop the intersection of Market and 24th Avenue every day, waiting at the long traffic signal, by car or on foot. Even before the seven-story apartment building enveloped the Spirit gas…MORE

By Georgie Bright Kunkel

It is becoming increasingly more difficult to mingle with all ages in our urban culture. The extended family of the rural community is fractured by segregated urban living. You have read my complaints about this…MORE

“New Year Ponderings”

A newspaper writer in my hometown was as predictable as a tunnel-digging budget shortfall. As the end of the year approached---every year---he would inevitably write his annual “Predictions for the year to come”…MORE

By Katy Wilkens, MS, RD Nutrition and fitness manager, Northwest Kidney Centers

Soups are great for cold winter days. But they can be stuffed full of salt, which none of us need. Just one cup of soup from a store-bought can has about 1,800…MORE

By Peggy Sturdivant

On the way to arrange for a story interview that I thought would be uplifting for the holidays I crossed paths with a man in a red hat on a different path. Hudson stopped to put some belongings in the back of an old…MORE

By Georgie Bright Kunkel

To be special is to be at the right place at the right time. Every famous person had the intelligence and ingenuity to stand out from the crowd in some special way. It was the person who found themselves in the…MORE

by Rob Ketcherside

In 1888 Thomas Ewing had the good fortune to invest in West Seattle. His industry was mining: big, million-dollar mines. He had a corporate stake in mines in Nevada, Colorado, California, Utah and Arizona, and lived in…MORE

by Pat Cashman

A few years ago, I stopped at a little convenience store. My then-teenage daughter wondered why. “Because I like stores that are little and convenient,” I said.

She shot back. “Well then you must also like…MORE