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While there's no spaces left for bowlers (it's sold out) you can still join the members of Beer Church at West Seattle Bowl on Saturday, November 20 at 5:30 p.m.) for the 12th Annual Turkey Bowl as they collect food donations and raise money to…MORE

Starting Nov. 15, the Ballard News-Tribune will have a new web editor, reporter and photographer in Anne-Marije Rook, replacing Michael Harthorne.

Rook has been working in media for the past four years. Her work has appeared in more than…MORE

Press Release from UFCW Local 21:

Grocery store workers at the big chains stores in central Puget Sound gathered for vote meetings throughout the Snohomish, King and Kitsap Counties over the past several days to consider a vote to reject…MORE

Many Seattle Parks and Recreation facilities, including Ballard Community Center, Loyal Heights Community Center and the Ballard Pool, will be closed Nov. 12 for a furlough day. There will also be some closures Nov. 15.

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Looming construction on the Alaskan Way Viaduct replacement project is forcing King County Metro to realign the Downtown Seattle sections of two Ballard bus routes.

Beginning in February, Metro routes 15 and 18 will no longer run along…MORE

In 2030, how will Ballardites be moving about the city? Will they be taking light rail to Downtown and West Seattle? Will they board a bus with its own lane to the University District? Will they hop on a high-speed streetcar to Fremont?

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In the second orca related event of the last five days in West Seattle (the first was Orcafest on Nov. 7) Marine Biologist Brad Hanson, from Northwest Fisheries Science Center provided a "Research Update" with an unusual but honest title "In…MORE

The Vashon Sportsmen's Club on Vashon Island has donated space for a Amanda Knox Defense Fund Benefit the evening of Nov. 20. Knox, a West Seattle resident and current UW student was sentenced Dec. 4 last year to 26 years in an Italian prison for…MORE

Des Moines Police Officers, responding to a roaming dog call, chased Rosie, a 200 pound Newfoundland, into Lora Perry’s backyard where police officers shot and killed the dog last Sunday, Nov. 7. “It almost seemed like it was a game to them…MORE

UPDATE for 6/22/11: The skeleton for the new two-story, 140,000 square foot South Transfer Station in West Seattle has been built, showing clear signs of progress for the facility that will replace the old transfer station across the street (130…MORE