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Some of the best hikes around West Seattle are the various byways you can take down to the beach, and then back up. If, that is, you have any mojo left. Most of the time my mojo is gone after hiking down to the beach, especially if I have…MORE

Natural Home magazine has name Ballard to its top 10 list of America's Best Eco-Neighborhoods.

Ballard was tenth on the list and was chosen as one of the top urban neighborhoods encouraging a healthy eco-conscious life with community…MORE

Scan the walls of many West Seattle venues - restaurants, coffee shops, shoe stores and more - and you'll find that, more and more, art abounds in our eclectic little neighborhood.

Editor's Note. Lori Hinton has written this column for over three years and once in a while it is a good idea to take a breath and look back at the long view. Here is a checklist of 101 Things to Do from her now famous West Seattle Herald column…MORE

Two drops at a time, Rotary International has been providing polio vaccine to children in Ethiopia and other countries through its PolioPlus program.

In October, Ballard Rotary member Lori Knuckey and her son Alex joined a group of…MORE

It looked like a war zone. There was devastation everywhere. Yellow crime scene tape cordoned off the worst areas, areas that could still be dangerous to enter. Bypassing those spots I waded on through a sea of broken and severed limbs. It was a…MORE

It isn't that Harold Crick doesn't care, he just doesn't know how to. The blandest of accounting wonks, Harold understands numbers not people and his self-awareness of this essential character flaw causes a slight stab of pain that is as close to…MORE

Directed by Nick Cassavetes

Rated: R

(three stars)

Coming of age stories are typically an exercise in sentimentality. They offer an airbrushed view of the first fumbling act of liberation into adulthood.

Swedish Medical Center's Ballard Campus welcomed its first baby of the New Year on Jan. 1 at 6:12 p.m. The baby boy, named Shawn, was born to Bangdien and Calvin Bailey of Everett. The 7-pound, 2-ounce baby boy measured in at 19 inches long and…MORE

Pity the student who was asked this question in last week's geography bee at Madison Middle School: "Women traditionally wear an abbaya, over modern clothes, in Manama, the cosmopolitan capital city of which country?"

Worse, the question…MORE