Ballard - Features

“We don't do anything special, we just take care of them.”

Pete Knutson, co-founder of Loki Fish Company speaks casually about his fishing practices, but how he handles his catch has garnered the respect and admiration of many Seattleites…MORE

One of Ballard’s oldest buildings is more likely to still be standing after an earthquake because the owners have undergone a voluntary seismic retrofit with the help of King County.

The two-story building at 5101 Ballard Avenue is known…MORE

By Katy G. Wilkens

I drive by a quince tree on my way to work. One day I am going to stop and say, “Excuse me, I couldn’t help noticing you have ambrosia going to waste in your front yard; can I have your quince?” Quince makes the most…MORE

By Peggy Sturdivant What I love about writing this column is that nine times out of ten what’s underneath the surface facts is a love story. It can be a love story between a neighborhood and a tree, a pet and its owner, a volunteer and a cause,…MORE

By Peggy Sturdivant

I love the rain but appreciate the melancholy that accompanies shorter days. Since it’s a rainy morning as I write this, on the last Saturday in October, I’m not outside raking leaves. I’m not pulling up the tomato…MORE

By Peggy Sturdivant

I was upset when I thought it was just happening in Ballard. When I learned it was citywide I was incensed. Who was placing letters addressed to the “American Neo-Nazi Party” throughout Seattle neighborhoods?

I…MORE

By Katy G. Wilkens, MS, RD

Some years I get squash from my garden, and other years I get none. I’m very happy with the current crop of eight butternut squash. I pulled them from the garden recently as a big storm threatened.

Mild…MORE

By Peggy Sturdivant

I warned Leslie Pierson during our phone interview that I might have to interrupt her when the ship captain blew the horn. Although I don’t know her address in East Ballard I probably had a better sense of her…MORE

By Ann Selberg

For those who braved the weather on a dark and stormy Friday night, there was rich reward at the Earl Kelly Center for Performing Arts where the Ballard High Playmakers have mounted a terrific production of The Foreigner.…MORE

By Katy G. Wilkens

I drive by a quince tree on my way to work. One day I am going to stop and say, “Excuse me, I couldn’t help noticing you have ambrosia going to waste in your front yard; can I have your quince?” Quince makes the most…MORE