Ballard - Features

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

By Amanda Knox

The first Photo Sphere I ever saw transported me to the Valle de Cocora. I was standing in the middle of rolling hills so green they looked radioactive. I turned around myself, slack-jawed and gazing up at impossibly tall…MORE

By Gary Wasdin, King County Library System Director

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. To Kill a Mockingbird. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone… Three very different books that share a common thread. Each year, individuals across the…MORE