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The Heartland Cafe has a ghost. That's the report from multiple witnesses and while this isn't new (a brand new ghost might be creepier) the haunting continues as it has for years now. The Heartland Cafe at 4210 Southwest Admiral Way is a…MORE

Westside School is in their new home at 7740 34th S.W. in the E.C. Hughes building and they couldn't be happier. The school is a beehive of activity with teachers, and parent volunteers all preparing for the coming school year.

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The average computer user likely imagines that software is created by people in cubicles under fluorescent lights in a large office park somewhere in Redmond or possibly Silicon Valley. But one West Seattle based company is changing that notion…MORE

The Service Board, or tSB, located in West Seattle’s Youngstown Cultural Arts Center, has a motto, “Open the door for kids who want to change their lives.” The organization holds three sessions a year, and youth and teen mentors meet once or…MORE

Tasha was a pound puppie who came to the Light family five years ago when she was 8 months old. A friend had adopted her but could not keep her and offered her to them.

Aaron Light and his sister Alex spend a lot of time with Tasha who is…MORE

Although I write memoirs and a zine called "Reality Mom," I never claim that all of my stories are 100-percent true. Or as friends say, “Maybe it’s reality according to you, but that’s not how I remember it.”

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Mary Kachi Cassinelli opened Dandelion Botanical Company, a natural apothecary shop, at the age of 26 and remembers early on the men in her life telling her how to run her business. But, the successful Ballard business owner of 14 years feels…MORE

She lured me in with the promise of a ripe blackberry bush, but the subsequent obsession was entirely my own. This is a story about my daughter Emily’s last week in Seattle before returning to college and her crazy mother.

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You can head to the beach but shade, cool drinks and better yet air conditioning will help of course. The National Weather Service has a heat advisory in effect until 10 PM Monday night Aug. 16.

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By William Malgren (special to the Herald)

I have a lot of memories from my childhood in West Seattle. Some of the fondest come from the early sixties, when as a ten year old; I delivered our community newspaper, the West Seattle Herald…MORE