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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

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

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

Danny Smith, a resident at the Columbia Lutheran Home takes the first ride on a wheelchair lift of a Sprinter Van. The van can hold four wheelchairs and was a gift from the Trust of Leah and Kenneth Santrom. It will be used to take residents to…MORE

Sen. Jeanne Kohl-Welles, bottom row, third from left, with Pastor Erik Wilson Weiberg of the Ballard First Lutheran Church, on her left, at the Senate rostrum with others following the approval of a Senate resolution honoring the state's fishing…MORE

When Lauren Bullington first came to the Ballard Boys and Girls Club 10 years ago, she was shy and nervous.

Now she has been voted 2007 Youth of the Year at the Ballard club and represented the organization at the Boys and Girls Club of…MORE

There's always a hubbub, among men at least, with the annual publication of Sports Illustrated magazine's swimsuit edition, and this year, West Seattle swimwear designer Heidi Fish has a couple of her swimsuits in there - pages 196 and 200.

Stella Chao loves walking around Sunset Hill, where she sees other homeowners working in their yards and interactions with her neighbors are a welcome thing.

Now that Chao has been hired as the new director of the City of Seattle's…MORE

Five years ago Karen Palmer chucked an insurance-consulting business and went to the dogs. And cats - occasionally, rabbits or even horses.

While the outdoors is a welcome respite from the stuffy corporate offices she once roamed, the…MORE