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

Some people refuse to pay to park at the automated parking kiosks in downtown Ballard. Others don't mind, but most agree that parking is becoming harder to find. Dean Wong photo.

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

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

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

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

Sitting in front of her television, Chris Arace has always been good at solving the puzzles on the "Wheel of Fortune." When she finally appeared as a contestant on March 28, she won $49,000.

"I've always been good at it. I yell at the…MORE