30 years ago Stephanie Trinneer and her family lived on the Toutle River in 1980 when the eruption of Mt. St. Helen's happened. Their home was destroyed by the lahar (a cascade of mud and ash) that came down the river after the eruption. No one…MORE
Features
Taproot creates troupe of tiny thespians
Mon, 05/17/10
Taproot Theatre Education Director Sara Willy isn't just in charge of overseeing the Greenwood theater company's new Drama With Your Mama class, she's also a member.
Willy took her 2-year-old son to the first Drama With Your Mama class, an…MORE
At Large in Ballard: Meeting Molly
Mon, 05/17/10
On the first Monday of the month, I perched amidst fishermen and “Deadliest Catch” fans on a chair in the Leif Erikson Lodge for Sig and Edgar Hansen’s free-wheeling talk. The following Monday night, I crawled in the side door of the Ballard…MORE
Watching the ferry
Sun, 05/16/10
Residents of West Seattle often share what we enjoy daily with those from out of the area. One of the places to take visitors is the Hamilton Viewpoint Park at the northern end of the Admiral District.
The Seattle Parks Department offers…MORE
Why Momma cried
Sat, 05/15/10
This is the fourth in a series of articles on 96-year-old Morey Skaret, who emigrated from the family homestead in Endiang, Canada to West Seattle in 1923. Having survived the hardships of the prairie—and the sorrow of leaving a brother behind—…MORE
Caregivers, receivers brace for battle
Sat, 05/15/10
D'vorah Kost may be a fixture at the Senior Center of West Seattle, be the professional social worker doesn't hold still very long. She is busy facilitating courses on caregiving, and on mental and physical health there to seniors, and to those…MORE
"Don't waste your money on cigarettes!" advocate declares
Sat, 05/15/10
Responding to the West Seattle Herald's May 7 story "Experts Urge West Seattle families to communicate directly about drugs and alcohol," long-time West Seattle resident, Bob Fox, wanted to weigh in with his years of fighting our tobacco-smoking…MORE
Shutter Island too concerned with form even as it shocks
Sat, 05/15/10
Martin Scorsese makes beautiful films that are sometimes quite good (I’m sorry, but I don’t think “Gangs of New York” has made too many top-ten lists). “Shutter Island” teeters between those two qualities—between exquisitely crafted imagery and…MORE
Bakery Nouveau and Full Tilt Ice Cream featured in the New York Times
Sat, 05/15/10
The New York Times picked out two local businesses in a travel story about Seattle Sweet Shops by writer Sara Dickerman Saturday May 15. Bakery Nouveau, the french bakery in the heart of the West Seattle Junction and Full Tilt Ice Cream in White…MORE
SLIDESHOW: Seattle Chefs cooked the first Copper River salmon of the season
Fri, 05/14/10
Early Friday morning three top Seattle seafood chefs had a copper salmon cookoff, cooking the very first copper salmon to be delivered from Alaska.
The plane landed just before 7 a.m., carrying 22,000 pounds of fresh Alaska Copper River…MORE
