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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.”

So when my 4-year-old…MORE

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.

Dating back at…MORE

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.

Here are some other tips you can try: Close…MORE

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

What do West Seattleites do on a sunny day in August. Sure, some of us go to Alki but the whole city can show up there. So, true West Seattleites head for our other beach, the one at Lincoln Park.

Contributing Photojournalist Greg McCorkle…MORE

This week will feature peppers, sweet potatoes, candied ginger, potatoes, pumpkins, walnuts, hazelnuts, apple cider, and autumn/winter squash varieties,

Fruits for sale include pears, apples, kiwi, pluots, quinces.

You'll find…MORE

With a daytime temperature of 95 degrees and light winds, Alki was the place to be Saturday Aug. 14 as the sun went down. Kayakers paddled there way around the bay, couples took in the beautiful crescent moon as it sank below the horizon, and…MORE

Dave Rintoul and his wife Erica Rintoul were out for a night adventure dive with a class of other scuba diving students, at the popular dive spot next to the Water Taxi dock on Harbor Avenue. Dave Rintoul is a dive instructor with nine years…MORE