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Steve Clark

This is National Animal Shelter Appreciation week so if want to appreciate Seattle's official animal shelter, you're lucky that it's a mile south of the Ballard Bridge on 15th Avenue West. You can go say hi to the staff, and…MORE

Ballard resident Susan Partnow is traveling to Nigeria later this month as part of a local delegation to help open a new library in the Ijaw village of Oporoza.

She will join a group of 16 others brought together by Seattle-based Global…MORE

Before leaving for a trip across China and Tibet in April, then 13-year-olds Olivia Price and Hannah Miller never thought it would be Tibetan orphans who would make the trip most memorable.

After returning home in May, Price and Miller…MORE

Dean Wong

"Inherit the Wind," is an ambitious new play by students in the Ballard High School drama department dealing with the subject of evolution.

Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee wrote the play in 1955 as a fictional account of…MORE

A load of cargo is hoisted off of a catcher processor at Terminal 91 on October 13. Many of these ships' marine-specific supply needs are met by firms in Ballard.

Steve Clark

If fishing is a vital part of Ballard's identity, then Interbay is an extension of Ballard. The tract of land that runs from the southern end of the Ballard Bridge, between Magnolia and Queen Anne, ends at Terminal 91 and…MORE

Ol/! Hot happy hour specials and spicy Tex-Mex cuisine have roared like a mad bull onto the Westside scene.

Bienvenidos to the Matador West, a bustling junction restaurant and tequila bar adorned with bull heads, vibrant stained glass, and…MORE

Dan Catchpole

The beaming faces of expectant children and their parents filled the Microsoft Auditorium at the Seattle Central Library last Saturday and small Norwegian flags dotted the audience. The crowd had come to hear Princess M

Steve Clark

It's spooky what you can find at Goodwill. The Ballard store is crammed with 24,000 square feet of merchandise that has been, by and large, previously owned by people in the Ballard community. Every isle is a reflection of the…MORE

Steve Clark

On the first day of their bike trek for charity, the Logsdon brothers had gone three miles when they noticed they were being hunted by a grizzly bear. It paralleled them beyond the road shoulder, and then it started angling in…MORE