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If you find a harbor seal pup on the beach, do not approach it closely. Call the Northwest Marine Mammal Stranding Network, at 1-800-526-6733, to report where and when you found the animal, and what condition it is in. You can volunteer to "seal…MORE

Spud and Neptune spent Friday at Alki Beach, napping in the sand. This was Spud's fifth morning in a row. At six weeks old, he was already an old hand. Neptune was only three or four days old, and this was his first day at the beach.

They…MORE

The Washington State Little League Baseball All Star Championship at Richland saw West Seattle Little League All Stars (11-12year old boys) win third place.

West Seattle won their first three games at the State Tournament outscoring their…MORE

Memory - 1995: My oldest is eight weeks old. I can't stand the crying anymore. I am sleepy, sweaty, exhausted, and tense. I take her out for a walk around our Portland neighborhood and run into our wonderful neighbor, who has kids in their…MORE

The first time I saw "Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End" I arrived at the theater - for reasons that have nothing good to say about my time-management skills - 45 minutes late. After an earnest warning by the teenager in the ticket booth…MORE

Last week I related a litany of narrow escapes I have had in my life and hinted that the ultimate saga I would tell you later and I will in a minute but first I want to explain how being half an inch taller might have saved my life when I was 7…MORE

A crow looks right into the window of the Ballard News-Tribune while sitting on a power line.

When the Admiral Theater opened with "Weekend in Havana" in 1941 it provided a very different film-viewing experience. The two theaters in the present Admiral were then combined in one grand thousand-seat venue. The walls and lobby were adorned…MORE

Grace Douglas, 11, Bellingham (left), eats corn with her friend Zo

The sight of a Segway scooter (that nifty two-wheel electric vehicle that balances itself) humming along Alki isn't particularly newsworthy, but the fact that one kept going until it reached Boston is.

On August 4 the Admiral Theatre was…MORE