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One nail at a time during two trips to New Orleans late last year, Ballard resident Julie Reimer helped build a new home for a New Orleans resident devastated by Hurricane Katrina.

Reimer, who lives in Loyal Heights, went to New Orleans as…MORE

England managed to abolish slavery 30 years before the United States and avoid a bloody civil war in the process. Still, the journey was a thorny political road spanning decades and consuming the lives of those involved. The result was a…MORE

One of the pleasures of living in West Seattle is that even those who cannot grow a vegetable or flower garden can still have homegrown produce and fresh cut flowers by visiting the West Seattle Farmers Market.

Since 1999, the West Seattle…MORE

Bike helmets still on, Noah, 6, and Jesse 3, have fish and chips with dad, Stan, at the Lockspot diner. Amber Trillo photo.

High school students marched in n Seattle on April 18 to protest the war in Iraq. Here they are seen approaching the Seattle School District headquarters in the Sodo District. Over two hundred students left school for the demonstration that began…MORE

Construction workers at the NoMa Condominiums were lined up floor-to- floor last week. They were passing up pieces of lumber from the ground floor to each other.

Ballard resident Darrell Kirk has been helping Seattle Central Community College students receive an education through the Nelson Mandela-Graca Machel Scholarship program.

Kirk and his wife, Elizabeth Devereaux, a teacher at Wing Luke…MORE

It was New Year's Eve, 1936. Just a few months earlier the New York Yankees won their ninth World Series, Franklin Delano Roosevelt won his second presidential election, and gas prices stood at 20 cents a gallon. And somewhere in the town of…MORE

The older sister minces her way over 5,000 meters of cross country terrain. The younger sister swallows meters at a time over 800 meters of track. With disparate stride and strength, each Johnson sister nevertheless lit up her respective West…MORE

I never made a plan for my life. I knew that I wanted to be a writer, but I wanted it to happen without work. After college I took a job in retail at Crate & Barrel (as Section Head of Christmas Ornaments, it was assumed to be temporary). On…MORE