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As Brent Ray Fraser prepared his oil sticks and sized up his massive canvas plastered with a backdrop of nostalgic nude photography of the female form from decades bygone, an eclectic musical score filling the studio with deep bass, a woman came…MORE

I don't know where he found it but number five son Scott Anthony somehow discovered a bruised and battered two door Chevy sedan someone had left to die.

It was on its side in a field near the airport flight path. With some of his teenage…MORE

Sculptor Jean Thornber just turned 93, and is aging gracefully like the driftwood she has polished throughout her adult life. She is a West Seattle High School graduate of 1937.

She continues teaching her art at the Huntington Park…MORE

SPD Community newsletter from Mark Solomon, Southwest Precinct Crime Prevention Coordinator

Dear Community Friends,

Recent Burglary Arrest On Tuesday, June 12, 2012, a witness reported seeing an adult male tampering with a window…MORE

Seaway Marine on Harbor Avenue is a place many people drive by on the way to Alki Beach but it is where owner Greg Jacobsen is readying a series of boats that will for the first time, take part in some likely thrilling boat racing during Seafair…MORE

Bobbie Cox got her dog Joey, an Australian Blue Heeler about four and a half years ago in Seattle's north end. "I saw an ad in the paper one day," Cox explained, "and I'd been looking for a long time. They are hard to find. I knew I liked that…MORE

I recently had dinner with three of my writer friends. We all advised one another on how to write and market our next book, but none of us were following our own advice. “It’s the second book curse,” I thought when I left the restaurant. “We’re…MORE

The Seattle Public Library created a program 14 years ago that has since been emulated world-wide. On a cloudless Saturday morning in early May, Amy Waldman, the author of this year’s program selection Seattle Reads The Submission, told the…MORE

West Seattle teens from Madison Middle School and the Delridge and South Park Community Centers helped document the history of the Duwamish Peninsula this spring by taking part in the Southwest Seattle Historical Society’s “Telling Our Westside…MORE

I've had a lot of dogs. Mac was an Australian shepherd I had when I was a teenager. Skipper was a beautiful collie. Tessie was our dachshund for 17 years. And Richard Tiger was a dog we got for son Tim at the dog pound. He was a wonderful spaniel…MORE