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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The goat first showed signs that she was going into labor at 10:30 p.m. She expelled a certain kind of discharge, similar to when a woman’s water breaks. She nickered during contractions. And of the estimated 145 to 155 days of a goat’s gestation…MORE