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The upcoming Ballard Jazz Festival features an extensive lineup of performances by local, national and international artists and runs from April 25 to 28 in different venues.

The main stage concert at Mars Hill Church, 1401 N.W. Leary Way…MORE

Three remote villages in Ethiopia now have clean water to drink thanks to the efforts of Ballardites Judith Sanderman and her husband Dennis Wilkins.

The couple has collected donations to buy school supplies, as well as build wells as part…MORE

For 10 years the Ballard Chamber of Commerce has presented the monthly Ballard Art Walk which has attracted thousands of visitors annually for a walking tour that brings together area artists, studios, galleries, restaurants, merchants and…MORE

A three-month-old female Sumatran tiger cub needs a name and the public is invited pick her name. The Malay-Indonesian names reflect the endangered tiger's native habitat: Hadish, or "gift;" Senang, "happy;" Sendiri, "single;" Berani, "courageous…MORE

Aromas of buttery brioche waft out the doors and into the Junction. Locals beam as they fill up their bike baskets with fresh-baked baguette and happily ride away to their first spring picnic.

I am lately persuaded that the fifth horseman of the apocalypse drives a small Japanese pickup truck.

They are the nightmare image of the cable-news age, these battered vehicles, packed with men and small boys armed to the teeth and…MORE

The small locks at the Ballard Locks are closed through Friday at 6 p.m. for it's yearly general maintenance. Crews drained the small lock and worked on the upstream service gate miter bars. The small lock can handle vessels up to 25 feet wide…MORE

Deb Cummings of the Ballard Great Harvest Bread Co. here is preparing a patron favorite, cinnamon rolls. The Ballard store, owned by Bob Carlson, recently won the company's Phenomenal Bread Award. "Bob and Crystal Carlson were up against some of…MORE

'Oklahoma' comes to the stage

By Dean Wong

It's show time as the Ballard High School drama program presents the Rogers and Hammerstein play "Oklahoma" with performances the last two weekends of March.

Last week the cast of 40…MORE

This was no ordinary Monday morning. Instead of throwing on a sweatshirt, jeans and tennis shoes, I dressed formally and arrived at Ballard High School an hour before class began.

Sixty sleepy classmates and I boarded the yellow school bus…MORE