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
Features
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
Backyard brood: Goats a growing trend on urban farms
Fri, 05/14/10
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
It's Garden Classes time; Classes filling fast
Wed, 05/12/10
Get gardening in West Seattle with one of these engaging classes taught by garden educators from Seattle Tilth in conjunction with Community Harvest of SW Seattle.
Vertical Gardening (St. James Annex) May 16, 10-noon. Learn to build cool…MORE
The City of Seattle has a wealth of data for you
Wed, 05/12/10
The City of Seattle, like any large municipality keeps and updates a wide range of databases. The compiled data gives them a sense of how to apply resources and provides the public with access to facts, figures and awareness of what the city has…MORE
