Ballard - Features

By Peggy Sturdivant

We picked up others as though we were a walking school bus, two at one corner and another one at the next. I’d wavered on joining this walk. One friend I see several times a week but it had been long time since I’d seen…MORE

By Peggy Sturdivant

I need to get outside to pick tomatoes before the Labor Day weekend’s rainfall splits them open. Even without water the high temperatures of August have done their work in the garden, and in rising tempers over what…MORE

By Katy Wilkens

My love affair with Greek food started years ago on a trip to Greece with my husband. Salads brimming with tomatoes and cucumbers, lemons in everything, thick yogurt with dark Greek honey drizzled over the top or a spoonful…MORE

By Peggy Sturdivant

It was no coincidence the museum interviewers from Sweden were in Ballard for Viking Days. The Nordic Heritage Museum’s former Chief Curator Lizette Gradén still knows the event drill intimately. It doesn’t get much…MORE

By Sarah Cecil

It’s almost back-to-school time. If you have young children going to public schools, your biggest expenditures may be on pens, pencils and notebooks. But if you want those same kids to go to college someday, you’ll…MORE

By Sarah Cecil

During your working years, your primary investment goal is generally growth – you need your money to grow so that you can eventually afford the comfortable retirement lifestyle you’ve envisioned. But when you retire, should…MORE

By Peggy Sturdivant

Lauren Ziemski and Stan Rawrysz have known each other since high school back in New Jersey. They’ve been in the Northwest 20 years and loved their Ballard apartment the minute they walked in. It had corner windows…MORE

It’s the stories. For the final stage of Ballard Historical Society’s Mapping Historic Ballard project volunteers have researched and provided background material on just 150 properties out of hundreds with historic value. I volunteered as one of…MORE

By Katy Wilkens, MS, RD

Frosty treats can make you feel cool on hot days. Frozen pops and sorbets are fruit-filled ways to cool off. Most need little if any added sugar, so they’re healthy and delicious.

You can buy molds or make…MORE

By Peggy Sturdivant I figured if a woman 30 years older than me with hip trouble was going to get herself to the Safe & Healthy Communities Public Forum hosted by District 6’s Councilmember Mike O’Brien being held at St. Luke’s on July 29, I…MORE