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Bertha Davis claims she “closed” Webster Elementary School when she and the secretary were the last school staff to leave the building in 1980. She had taught there for 50 years.

Nearly 30 years later she’s presiding over a grand opening…MORE

On the cobble stone streets of old Ballard Avenue is a boutique by the name of Dolce Vita (Italian for “sweet life”). There’s no signage, only a brightly lit shop with stylish mannequins in the display windows.

It is the perfect…MORE

I was going to do a completely different topic for today, but something more impressive has taken its place. Have you ever had a garden, or plant question, that you can’t find an answer to? Try the Elisabeth Miller Plant Answer Line at the…MORE

Russian Americans Sergii and Masha Roata came from Tacoma to have their formal wedding photos taken, with a few spins thrown in, on Alki Saturday.

My son Chris, who is now 20 mumble-something years old, would surely be embarrassed to see his name in print in relation to diapers, so don’t mention this to him please.

But I have to say that today’s baby bottom cover is far and away a…MORE

There are psychics, astrologers and fortune tellers and then there is Elisabeth Mose. She is not a psychic in the classic sense. She calls her work Guided Mirror because she "mirrors" the emotions of her clients in intuitive readings to co-create…MORE

In just a few weeks the Morgan Junction could see a new bar open that is unlike any other in the neighborhood.

The Feedback Lounge is located in the Beveridge Place's former home near California Avenue Southwest and Fauntleroy Way.

If it weren’t about corporate greed and the rich getting richer, “Duplicity” would be perfect escapist fluff for these dire economic times. It takes the spy thriller and removes all the risk and danger, while leaving in the sex, double-crosses…MORE

The average Ballardite, if asked where the library is, would tell you it’s right at the corner of Northwest 56th and 22nd Northwest, but, actually, Ballard has two.

Squeezed between Great Harvest Bakery and Tableau Gifts and…MORE

Next month marks the first anniversary of the closing of Sunset Bowl, 1400 N.W. Market St. Since then, it has gone from a once-vibrant center of life in Ballard to a withered-up husk of a building as it waits to be demolished and redeveloped.…MORE