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By Georgie Bright Kunkel A sense of humor has risen to the top of the pot, as they say. I certainly can’t remember a time when people didn’t find laughter in life. Since no one has recorded the comedy quotient of the cave people we don’t know if…MORE

By Peggy Sturdivant

Jim Bristow says his neighbors begged him to have another block party after his Flamenco-themed party on Summer Solstice. If you’re a Ballard neighbor you absolutely know him: the neighborhood party guy. If you don’t…MORE

By Christy Wolyniak

Everything changed for one Ballard family when a husband and wife quit their office jobs and took to the open fields.

Jonathan Fisher was working grueling hours as a lawyer in downtown Seattle, while his wife,…MORE

Bardahl-sponsored drag-racing champion Al Young, of Shoreline, is presented with a first-place trophy for longest distance traveled at The Power Big Meet in Vasteras, Sweden. Young poses with Cherielynn Westrich, car builder on the TLC series…MORE

Mary Street has a rash of applications for subdivisions. Three applications have been submitted by the same owner for subdivision projects proposed to occur at the 6700 block of Mary Street.

6701 MARY AVE NW:

Land Use Application…MORE

And for the first time, we’re performing at the…

Ballard High School Performing Arts Center 1418 NW 65th Street, Seattle, WA 98117 Saturday, September 13, 7:30pm

This is a free event. Contributions are gratefully accepted.

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By Fred Freeman

If you ever go across the bridge to Ballard then maybe at the closing of the day, you'll sit and watch the moon rise oer Ray's Boathouse and see the sun go down on Shilshoal bay. Oh the Danish, and the svenska,and the…MORE

By Dean Wong

I ran into Pat Robinson recently. He was photographing people flying kites at the Seattle Chinese Garden for the West Seattle Herald. Pat is part of the Robinson Newspapers family, owners of the Ballard News-Tribune where I…MORE

by Pat Cashman

Baseball fans have been getting plenty of exercise this summer---jumping up and down from the Mariners’ bandwagon. The team swings between looking playoffs-bound---to just plain bound---as if the players’ need more fiber…MORE

By Joan Casanova

Warm weather, continued care and robust plants have yielded a bounty of beautiful, fresh vegetables – and personal satisfaction – from your garden this season. As the weather cools and fall approaches, it is not time to…MORE