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The official "1st Ride" for West Seattle Spokespeople wasn't a group of public speakers. This was an eclectic assembly of people brought together by Sustainable West Seattle co-founder Bill Reiswig and Alki Bike and Board owner Stu Hennesey to…MORE

Overcast skies and a slight drizzle May 1 didn't keep Ballardites from flocking to the first-ever Ballard Urban Picnic, or BURP, where lines for some of the premiere street food vendors in the city were occasionally 40 people deep.

The…MORE

Boats were filling the waters off Harbor Avenue in Elliott Bay for the first day of the recreational shrimp harvest, May 1. From 7:00 AM to 3 PM shrimpers were allowed to go into the bay (Marine Area 10) to catch their limit of 80 shrimp. The…MORE

The Herald heard about a very special invitation that was offered to a student at West Seattle High School. We asked her to write about it in her own words.By Tailor Kowis

On Tuesday, April 13th after non stop thinking about who I would go…MORE

As “The Last Station” would have it, Leo Tolstoy spent his final days struggling to master the perils of celebrity rather than the written word. Czarist Russia is shambling towards its doom (the film is set in 1910) and Tolstoy’s ideas on…MORE

Elois Gruenhagen is retiring after 45 years at Hope Lutheran Church and School. She's served as a first grade teacher for over 4 decades. On May 16th there will be a celebration of thanks to the Lord. Students, parents, teachers, as well as…MORE

Ballard High School's Maritime Academy students spent the morning of April 30 sending underwater vehicles to the bottom of the Ballard Pool to see which team could collect the most rings. And, as is usually the case in life, Chuck Norris came out…MORE

Some say, "My home is my temple." but on Thursday, April 29, Husky Deli could have said the same thing, as two rabbis' wives worked the lunch crowd there with a tasting of their new Marian Davis' Barbeque Sauce.

Giti Fredman runs the…MORE

Morest Layton “Morey” Skaret was born on August 2, 1913, the second of six children. His mother was a North Dakota schoolteacher, his father a Norwegian immigrant in search of free, farmable land. Ida and Elling Skaret homesteaded 160 acres in…MORE

More than three dozen runners can look forward to pounding the pavement in new shoes this week thanks to West Seattle’s first specialty running store, West Seattle Runner, located at Charlestown and California.

The grand opening on April…MORE