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Summer, in large part, bypassed Seattle. I hear from various sources we’re supposed to have a harsh-for-Seattle winter – lots of snow, ice, high winds and general cold and wetness. For those of us not into snow sports, it’s an unpleasant forecast…MORE

Turns out you need to move fast to catch any clams at Golden Gardens these days. Perhaps it would take longer if you were hunting buried clams rather than humans wearing fiberglass clam shells.

Banner Bank was filming an ad featuring the…MORE

One of the lost arts I mastered in my misspent youth was playing migs, also called marbles.

I am saddened to see kids today using their thumbs for pitiful things like texting and hitchhiking on I-5.

Playing migs not only builds your…MORE

Master Animal Control Officer Jan Magnuson of the Des Moines Police Department has put out an all-points bulletin for loving families to adopt six kittens who were found in a paper grocery bag left in a driveway.

She reports they are…MORE

Shakai is a combination dog and shows it. Her mother was a pure chocolate lab and her father was the neighborhood "Newfie that snuck into the garage," explained Shakai's owner Diane Robertson,"It was an unplanned child." Her most interesting…MORE

He has strode the halls of power and stood outside the oval office, dealt with some of the biggest names of our time, worked in high tech and followed many paths yet Geoffrey Abdian never found fulfillment until now, here in the West Seattle…MORE

In every attic and spare room across the country there are dozens of photo albums, 8mm movies reels, color slides and letters detailing lives lived. It is true in Burien too. What can be lost is the narrative that goes with those pictures. Thanks…MORE

At the southern end of the South Seattle Community College campus a group of volunteers was working Wednesday Sep. 29 to save the earth with charcoal.

If that seems like a far fetched goal, the threads of the story behind what they were…MORE

Two days after having sex, I announced to my then husband, “I’m pregnant, and it’s a girl.”

He laughed and said, “Yeah right. It took years to conceive our son.”

This is true, but nine months later our daughter was born.

I…MORE

The $100,000-plus Tesla electric car featured in the West Seattle Herald’s Sept. 17 issue, “Battery-powered car sparks interest on Alki” also sparked sticker shock responses from our readership expressing interest in the green environmental…MORE