Features

By Anna Erickson

When the housing market started to decline in 2008, Irene and Dan Hopkins sold their house and saw another kind of lifestyle on the horizon.

At first, Irene Hopkins was opposed to her husband’s idea to settle aboard…MORE

Ten students and three alumni from the Ballard High School Digital Filmmaking Program featured four films in the eighth annual National Film Festival for Talented Youth (NFFTY).

Lucy Harstrick, Isaiah Hoban-Halvorsen, Josh Vredevoogd and…MORE

Editors Note: We've owned the White Center News since 1952, and the West Seattle Herald since 1974. This is a column from Jerry Robinson our publisher he wrote in 2008, looking back at some of the early days.

By Jerry Robinson, Publisher…MORE

By Georgie Bright Kunkel

Yes, our community is changing. People ask me what it was like here before Westwood Village sprang up draining the swamp that once produced mosquitoes. And they often wonder if the air would be less polluted…MORE

Full Tilt Ice Cream is best known around Seattle as at coolest local chain of ice cream shops featuring not only outstanding and quirky ice cream flavors but beer and pinball. But sometimes owner Justin Cline goes to 11 pm and rocks out his…MORE

Are you ready for some local improv? Coming May 16-24 is KAZOKU! an improvised game show at Pershing Hall in West Seattle. It's produced by KRAM Improv.

According to the organizers the show takes a family teaming with hang-ups and…MORE

By Peggy Sturdivant

It was my friend Rita Bresnahan who first introduced me to the term Silver Sneakers. She was only an occasional drop-in at MJ’s yoga class at Ballard Health Club because she was a Silver Sneakers member at Olympic…MORE

press release

Internationally acclaimed storyteller and award winning children’s book author, Atinuke, is coming to West Seattle to share her stories and tell the students of Village Cooperative School and the Bridge School about her work…MORE

For 26 years West Seattle Thriftway has opened it's doors the Saturday before Easter to the children and parents of West Seattle for their Annual Egg Hunt.

Growing in size and popularity each year this years hunt will include 25,000 - 30,…MORE

By Katy Wilkens, MS, RD

You can tell spring is here because weeds are growing. But don’t despair, much of that green garden growth that we call weeds is actually edible. Native people in our area waited with impatience for the bright color…MORE