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Monday night fifteen Ballard writers gathered at the Copper Gate to socialize and discuss ways to collaborate in marketing efforts and exposure. The threat of snow loomed all day, all weekend in fact, causing me to furtively glance out the window…MORE

When most of us think of someone living to be 100, we might imagine a pale figure staring at the ceiling, waiting for the Lord to finally come.

This does not describe Ed Witzke. In fact, he’s in such good health, they just did hip surgery…MORE

(Editor’s Note: Charlie Ganong offers a poignant story about a special tree in Highline, followed by Jerry Robinson’s memory of a chance meeting years ago in Boston.)

Jerry, Thanks for sending us the picture of my mom and the "historic…MORE

That is a historic tree behind my mom. She no longer lives in Fentonwood. But that grand tree in the background will thrive there another four or five hundred years, when all of us will have long since gone to that big treehouse in the sky.

A nurse I work with just gave me a bag of emeralds! Well, fuzzy emeralds – in the form of kiwi fruit.

This amazing fruit with the beautiful emerald interior grows locally here in the Emerald City and is harvested in the fall. Then you have…MORE

West Seattle High School senior Spencer Weglin, 18, is so enterprising, one of his teachers suggested he quit "wasting time" in school and dive right into his career. But which? He has so many, and he maintains a 3.98 grade point average while…MORE

Many of our readers are familiar with our stories on West Seattle filmmaker Jamie Chamberlin and his video work with rock musicians from ZZ Top to the local sounds of Villains of Yesterday, Star Anna, and Victoria Contreras.

Last week's…MORE

Longtime Seattle Seafair Pirate fans may recall the edgier era of those saber-rattling, masked men. Member Robb Zerr, was "Hurricane" from 1982-1990. He just wrote a new book, "Memoirs of a Buccaneer: 30 Years Before the Mast", a 432-page…MORE

In March of 2010 a small group of West Seattleites and members of St. John the Baptist Episcopal Church set out on a 9000 mile trek to build a secondary school in Mulundi Village, Kenya.

You can read about their trip here and here.

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The media coverage (some might say frenzy) leading up to this week’s storm hit the airwaves hard by mid January. There were predictions of over a foot of snow hitting the region and anticipations of society coming to a halt as a result. "…MORE