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The quarter-acre plot thickened today, April 18, as volunteers, equipped with gloves, hammers, shovels, forks, rakes, and the will to get dirty converged at Longfellow Creek Community Garden Park for it’s annual spring work party in conjunction…MORE

Neighbors gathered together April 18 for the 14th Avenue Northwest Adopt A Street Cleanup sponsored by the East Ballard Community Association.

Erin Alvin led Anika, Celia and Abby Alving up the street, finding garbage as they went. The…MORE

The West Seattle Herald attended last week's book signing by Maxwell Kennedy of his documentary "Danger’s Hour," the Kamikase bombing of the aircraft carrier USS Bunker Hill in May, 1945.

Kennedy, ninth son of Robert F. Kennedy, was here…MORE

If you’re at all like me (of an age and not city-bred) you may understand that the thought of riding a bicycle in traffic strikes fear into my very soul.

Now I have tremendous admiration for the number of fit adults using their legs…MORE

This recent tax season spurred on yet another garden analogy from Yours Truly. I realized, as gardeners, that we already pay taxes in our own way. I wonder if this could fly with the IRS?

Here’s what I have so far: Garden Tax Filing…MORE

On April 12, Edward Landin lost his wife, Judy Ann, 61, to emphysema. But what a life she had. As her family and friends tell it, she was more than just the mother to their three sons. She mothered thousands of White Center kids.

She…MORE

Union Pacific Railroad awarded $5,000 recently to Page Ahead, a program that provides new books and develops reading activities that empower at-risk children.

Brock Nelson of Union Pacific delivered the check in person to Susan Waller,…MORE

Since competing on the nationally-televised fashion competition Project Runway, Blayne Walsh has never stopped developing new fashion. This Saturday night, the Hotwire Coffee barista will premiere his new 2009 fall/winter line at Seattle Fashion…MORE

There will be a "Tour de Fronds" free walking tour of Fauntleroy Park, Sunday, April 26 at 1 p.m.

The meeting place is at Barton Street entrance (Southwest Barton and Southwest Henderson, between 40 and 41st Southwest)

The tour will…MORE

At the West Seattle Golf Course, the practice tee was teaming with irons, including the one belonging to 4-year-old Lily Brush.