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Sweet Mickey's Candy Shoppe Annual Easter Egg Hunt

What: What better combo? Sweet Mickey's, the delicious old-fashioned candy shoppe, is holding their first annual Easter egg hunt at the Ballard Commons right next door to them. A raffle…MORE

Each year, vehicles release 7 million quarts of motor oil are released into the Puget Sound basin.

If you don't measure things in quarts, that would be 1.75 million gallons.

Or, if you measure in money, that's about $53 million…MORE

By Charlie Ganong

In case you haven't noticed, a new fashion craze has clomped onto the scene. I'm speaking, of course, about women's boots. Today nearly every gal you see in West Seattle, Westwood Village or Burien is either a.) tightly…MORE

West Seattle's Gabriel Marquez is an unusual man when it comes to his exercise routine. He walks. Okay, not that unusual. More than a mile. A lot of people do that. But Marquez does it in the waters of Puget Sound about once a week traveling from…MORE

Darlene Corcoran got her dog JC, who is part pug, part Boston Terrier, about 3 1/2 years ago from a breeder in Yakima who breeds Terriers and pugs.

Cororan grew up in West Seattle and when her husband passed away four years ago she was…MORE

As they say, “All ships rise with the tide,” or maybe rather, “Rising suds lift all breweries.”

Such is the case in Ballard, where the list of breweries is fast becoming a lengthy one: Hale’s Ales (4301 Leary Way NW), Maritime Pacific…MORE

Ballard Natural Gas Service (4758 Ballard Ave NW) will be having a Food Drive the entire month of April to benefit the Ballard Food Bank. They will have two large donation cans in the lobby for anyone who would like to make a donation.

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The Seattle Fire Department in cooperation with the King County Sheriff’s Office conducted a Night Time Hoist Helicopter Training Drill Tuesday night, Mar. 26 at the City of Seattle Joint Training Facility near White Center.

The purpose…MORE

Congratulations to Hao Cheng, a photography student at West Seattle High School, for winning an outstanding achievement photography award at the Puget Sound Regional Art Competition.

WSHS Art Department Head Michelle Sloan shared the news…MORE

Let's face it, we've been spoiled the past few days. With stunning sunny blue skies and temperatures in the 50s, Ballardites have been going crazy with happiness this spring. And who's to blame? With our great parks, wonderful architecture,…MORE