Ballard - Features

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

With 2011 coming to a close, here's a look back at some of the most popular stories of the year. Big topics over the past year included the viaduct, the Occupy Movement, the homeless, new and closing businesses, and development.

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I dreamed I was sorting through a big box of Atlas palm gloves, the ones with Latex on one side. They were in all colors and sizes. It wasn’t hard to trace this dream to its point of origin: I had finally discovered Lummi Fisheries Supply, hiding…MORE

In celebration of Ballard's green spaces, Groundswell NW features and celebrates a "Park of the Month" and the community around it. In November the spotlight is on the Sunset Hill-Shilshole gateway.

Last month Groundswell announced that…MORE

By Katy Wilkens, MS, RD and Erin McCormick, RD

Also called staples, here are important food products that should always be kept on hand at home. They don’t go bad quickly and can used in a variety of ways. Here are our top picks for what…MORE

I think my cats must have had power-sharing agreements with the local fauna because it’s not unusual to see wild critters in my backyard despite their feline presence. Photon once rescued a baby ‘possum, and has often shared the back stairs and a…MORE