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Now its 12th year the Arts in Nature Festival is happening again at Camp Long and offers an eclectic mix of music, dance, art, crafts, and unique interactive experiences. It continues Sunday, Aug. 22.

Sponsored by the Nature Consortium…MORE

Morris dancers showed their stuff around the Alki Liberty statue at sunset Monday, Aug. 9.

A Morris Dance is a form of English folk dance usually accompanied by music.

Here's the Wikipedia entry.

Volunteers at the Highline Botanical Garden in SeaTac are inviting area residents to join them in the garden for a scoop of ice cream and the very best in gardening "edu-taintment" at their Fourth Annual Ice Cream Social, featuring this year's…MORE

A fire in a single family residence at 9038 22nd SW near Westwood Village drew 11 fire units in response at around 7:01 pm. Fire Department officials on the scene said the cause was not yet clear.

It was called in by the next door neighbor…MORE

The largest summer mobilization ever is cruising King County roadways through Sept. 6 for the state's "Drive Hammered, Get Nailed" campaign against drunk driving.

Burien, Des Moines, Normandy Park, SeaTac, Tukwila and Port of Seattle…MORE

As part of the Seattle Department of Transportation's Spokane Street Viaduct widening project the lower roadway has been blocked between the bottom of the offramp from West Seattle at 1st Avenue to 6th Avenue. The schedule called for it to open…MORE

As expected and to the delight of many in the Seattle Police Department the Seattle City Council voted unanimously Aug. 9 to confirm John Diaz as the next Chief of Police. Diaz has served as a Seattle police officer for the past three decades and…MORE

On Aug. 4, teachers, parents and students from St. Alphonsus School harvested seven medium-sized bags of a variety of vegetables and herbs from its new community garden and donated the produce to the Ballard Food Bank.

The volunteers at…MORE

Warren Aakervick notes that there are only three major truck routes running north to south in the city of Seattle: I-5, SR-99 and 15th Avenue Northwest. But for the owner of Ballard Oil, gridlock traffic is not just a commuter inconvenience, it…MORE

ChoralSounds Northwest will host two open community "Sings" on Tuesday, Aug. 17 and Tuesday, Aug. 24, 7 - 8:30 p.m. at St. Bernadette's Catholic Church, Southwest 128th Street and Ambaum Boulevard Southwest.

These fun evenings are designed…MORE