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Deadline for receiving items for Calendar is Noon Friday for the following week’s Tribune. Events are published based on timeliness and space availability. Email calendar submissions to: calendar@robinsonnews.com.Items can be accepted from…MORE

The Ballard Chamber of Commerce is ramping up efforts to light downtown Ballard for the holiday season this year.

While they are asking neighborhood merchants and businesses to contribute $200 each, they say that Ballard residents are free…MORE

We here in Ballard don't need the Seattle Times to tell us what makes us so great. But it's still flattering.

In an article titled, "Go play and stay in Ballard," features editor Lynn Jacobsen waxes poetic about Ballard, a place that has…MORE

By Shane Harms

When The Viking Tavern on 24th Ave NW closed down earlier this year, many people mourned not just the death of old-styled watering holes, but the death of Ballard as a whole.

But all is not lost. The memory of The…MORE

Meat the Live Butcher's Tom Salle will be in attendance as his annual Food Drive and Dinner event is held at the White Center Eagles Aerie Nov. 8. The Aerie is located at 10452 15th Ave. S.W. in White Center.

The goal as always is to feed…MORE

FRIDAY, NOV. 1

The Writer Next Door: 4th Annual Ballard Writer’s Collective Big Event

What: Author readings, “Ask the Writer” Panel. $15 three-book sampler (while supplies last). Thirty participating writer, twelve readers and panel…MORE

By Peggy Sturdivant

Folks Donna Williams had never met kept popping their heads into the barbershop all day long on Halloween to ask, “Will you be doing it this year?”

What they were asking was, since the death of Gene the Barber…MORE

A combination of mild temperatures and lots of merchants handing out candy in the Admiral District led to hundreds upon hundreds of kids and parents mobbing the business area in search of treats. Many of the merchants were in full costume as a…MORE

By Katy Wilkens, MS, RD

Recently, I went into my garden with the light of my flashlight and picked gold. Well, I really picked golden Asian pears, but they are as good as gold. With a great taste of fall, these crunchy apple-like, but pear…MORE

Dave Winters of Swedish Automotive has announced that he and a group of volunteers will perform an impromptu clean up under the West Seattle Bridge on Nov. 2 . In the announcement Winters states, "The bike path from the bottom of Avalon Way near…MORE