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How about a kitty for Christmas? You can get an early Christmas gift of a loving feline friend this weekend in West Seattle.

Kitty Harbor is open this Thanksgiving weekend on Saturday and Sunday. Skip Black Friday shopping and instead…MORE

By Peggy Sturdivant

“I will not take no for an answer,” Camelion Design owner Nicole Vandermeulen said at an early morning meeting in early October. The Front Steps committee of Ballard Merchants and Ballard Chamber of Commerce had been…MORE

It does not seem so long ago that I left my job as a test electrician at Boeing (they went on strike) in 1946. Curly Witherbee, shop foreman, said we'd be back in three weeks. Six months later they were still "out" and I needed work for my…MORE

If you keep your eyes open you will see that Method Homes is installing three modular, Built Green townhomes across the street from the West Seattle Golf course that will be available for presale. The homes will be installed in 12 pieces over 2…MORE

By Georgie Bright Kunkel

There is no end to what one can accomplish in life. Just this week, I sat down and filled a whole page with my plan of action for the coming year 2014. Here’s just a few of the things on the list.

By Peggy Sturdivant

A letter to the members went up at Ballard Health Club on Saturday night, November 23rd announcing that owners Lowen Clausen and his daughter Sonya Senstra had sold the club, effective January 1, 2014.

In order…MORE

By Stu Hennesey

The Admiral Business District is All On Board for Small Business Saturday November 30th. Many of the businesses are offering specials to entice West Seattle's holiday shoppers to keep there dollars local.

Over half…MORE

With no rain and open skies this week there have been some amazing sunsets. The Ballard News Tribune took advantage of it and toured Ballard looking for the transforming power of light. It may be cold out there, but a deep crimson sunset in Nov.…MORE

By Katy Wilkens, MS, RD

Anyone who forages for wild mushrooms can attest to what a bumper crop we’ve had this fall. If you aren’t one to put on a raincoat and walk in the woods, head to your grocery store to pick up some local yellow or…MORE

Cold winters seemed to be more common in the 50's, where we raised our kids in McMicken Heights. Icy mornings never kept me from hunting Geese near the shallow depression of Bow Lake behind the SeaTac Office Towers on Hiway 99. I recall ice…MORE