Ballard - Features

While Woodland Park Zoo is closed for visitors today, the animal residents, such as the zoo's pack of wolves and grizzly bear, are in their element in the snowy Northern Trail exhibit

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From Random House Dictionary of the English Language. Copyright 1987: "Stentorian, adjective, very loud or powerful in sound, usually describing a voice, from Homer’s Iliad, Stentor, a Greek herald with a loud voice."

Who would use the…MORE

The boy comes out of a house followed by his parents and visiting grandparents. It’s just before 8 a.m. on the last Friday of the winter break. Despite heavy rain in the forecast there is a sun break revealing the Olympics and making wet streets…MORE

Artist Thomas Whipple is one of the community voices featured on the Ballard News-Tribune BLOG. Every week he shows people how he sees Ballard - through the lens of a camera and reworked using HDR technology.

This week Whipple featured the…MORE

I’ve never been one to make New Year’s resolutions. The skeptical side in me always viewed it as a conspiracy of all of the gyms in the world trying to fill their year’s quota in one day. Not being a gym member, it was easy to rebuff this…MORE

On these cold, dark days of winter, when you finally make it home through the rain and traffic, you want some good comfort food.   Meatloaf can be one of those great comfort meals. You can make it ahead, pop it in the crock pot before you leave…MORE

I save holiday gift wrap and try to re-use it year after year. It’s easier to save and sort the wrapping paper than memories. There’s a methodology to sorting the remaining shapes and sizes that can’t be applied to what we choose to remember or…MORE

This beautiful rainbow made an appearance in Ballard around 3 p.m. on December 30. It could be seen for about half an hour before it vanished.

It seems fitting that I spent the final days of the year poring over the archives of the Ballard News-Tribune, with particular attention to the years 1949 and 1967. It was last December when Mrs. Bertha Davis passed her thirty-five years of work…MORE

Myrtle came in to my life in 1999 via a colleague who was moving to Minnesota and couldn’t take her with him. I already owned a cat and figured why not add another one to my household so they could be “friends.” That never happened, to no fault…MORE