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By Sarah Boon, Ballard High School Associated Student Body Vice-President

Jacob Kutrakun is the sports connoisseur at Ballard High School. He is a member of Ballard ASB as the sports information director and a member of Pep Club.

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With the help of Port Townsend artist Thaddeus Jurczynski and the Artist in Residence program, Loyal Heights Elementary School students will soon be in control of an army of hellhounds, serpents, squirrels, ice giants and other figures from Norse…MORE

Interested in revisiting the Civil War beyond the battles? Pete Mazza is an authority on the conflict that took the lives of over 600,000 Americans and ended some 100 years prior to the Voting Rights Act. Mazza will teach “The U.S. Civil War-…MORE

The tree-lined coast of West Seattle from Brace Point to Pt Williams was originally called Fauntleroy Park. When the city of Seattle bought it in 1922, during a time much closer to the Civil War than we are now, they renamed it Lincoln Park.…MORE

Tierney Vial got her English Yellow Labrador Retriever about 5 years ago from a breeder named Cameo Labs in Sedro Wooley. Vial often walks Brydie down by Lowman Beach and at night, once the house is quiet, Brydie will roll on her back, fall fast…MORE

I recently visited with a friend who I hadn’t seen in more than a year. After catching her up on my life as a single mom, complete with dancing and dating horror stories, she said, “Wow, you’re so different now.”

I laughed and said, “You…MORE

Westside Blues Concert-Fundraiser Alki Masonic Lodge 4736 40th Ave. S.W. 206-935-0418 Saturday, Feb. 27, 7 p.m. - 12 a.m. A fundraiser to benefit Westside Unitarian Universalist Congregation. $10 per person. Dancing, music and fun! Food and drink…MORE

She’s not a medical doctor-she doesn’t even work in the field but 28-year-old “Jenny” from West Seattle can tell you the signs and symptoms of countless cancers, disorders, rashes, and deadly infections.

She is obsessed with researching…MORE

She moved from Minnesota to be closer to her daughters. She moved to Ballard from Friday Harbor when her job no longer allowed her to telecommute. Now, Simone Vilandre is one of yet another breed of new Ballardites: a woman over 60 who is…MORE

“2012” is director Roland Emmerich’s third try at destroying the world (fourth if you count “Godzilla’s” romp across Manhattan) and he’s getting better with practice.

The film takes its title from the date the ancient Mayan calendar…MORE