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The ever-energetic 91 year-old Georgie Bright Kunkel has a crowded home. That's because the stand-up comedienne, book author, and West Seattle Herald columnist, has accumulated over 75 dolls, both during her childhood, and travels abroad. She has…MORE

With 2011 coming to a close, here's a look back at some of the most popular stories of the year. Big topics over the past year included the viaduct, the Occupy Movement, the homeless, new and closing businesses, and development.

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I dreamed I was sorting through a big box of Atlas palm gloves, the ones with Latex on one side. They were in all colors and sizes. It wasn’t hard to trace this dream to its point of origin: I had finally discovered Lummi Fisheries Supply, hiding…MORE

One of the most popular rock bands in the Northwest from the late 60's through 1975, CHILD is set to to make a reunion appearance in West Seattle at the RockSport Bar and Grill Feb. 18.

The band whose members over it's existence featured…MORE

The Suburban King County Coordinating Council on Gangs (“the Council”) is a unique partnership between the Center for Children and Youth Justice and high-level decision makers from across South and East King County that is focused on creating a…MORE

The book "Adios, Nirvana", released by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt a year ago October, is due out in paperback by Jan. 10. The author, Conrad Wesselhoeft, a Fauntleroy resident, set the book's story, considered young adult fiction with crossover…MORE

Watson is a Chinook and he's relatively rare. His owner Tara Breitenbucher said, "He's one of only 800 in existence. Chinook's are a rare breed of sled dog."

A couple of weeks ago on Dec. 7, the United States commemorated the 70th anniversary of the bombing of Pearl Harbor.

For most people, Pearl Harbor is now a history lesson found in textbooks. However, 88-year-old SeaTac resident Joe Dixon…MORE

By Jerry Robinson, Publisher

If you still don't have your Christmas tree up, here's a solution like we did when we were kids. You have to get up real early, before the neighbors, even.

We had no money (it was the Great Depression)…MORE

In celebration of Ballard's green spaces, Groundswell NW features and celebrates a "Park of the Month" and the community around it. In November the spotlight is on the Sunset Hill-Shilshole gateway.

Last month Groundswell announced that…MORE