Ballard - Features

By Amanda Knox

While cataloging new inventory at the bookstore, I’m consistently surprised by the market value of individual books. Sure, textbooks tend to be expensive, mass market paperbacks tend to be cheap. Most of the time, I’m…MORE

By Katy Wilkens

I just planted two kinds of spinach in my garden and I am waiting excitedly for the sprouts to poke their little heads though the mud!

I grow both “regular” and New Zealand spinach, a look-alike green, because they…MORE

By Peggy Sturdivant

At first glance it might seem like just one of many interesting pairings on the dance floor for the Monday night Waltz, Etc. at Lake City Way Community Center. A woman about whom absolutely nothing is ordinary, widely…MORE

By Pat Cashman

After the old man ordered him to get out of the house and land a job, my brother Sean headed down to a nearby grocery store---found the manager---and asked him, “Hey, you guys ain’t got no jobs down here, do ya?”

It…MORE

By Peggy Sturdivant

During what’s rightly called the golden hour before sunset I walked to the playing fields behind Ballard Community Center and Adams Elementary. Little League teams were starting practice in all four corners. Multiple…MORE

By Pat Cashman

Many years ago, my pop decided to take my brothers and me to a big, organized Easter egg hunt. Colored eggs had been hidden all over a city park in our small town---including one gold egg. The kid that found it was to…MORE

By Peggy Sturdivant

It’s telling that when Linda Joss wanted to start a neighborhood musical theater group she invited about 25 of her closest friends to her basement. Let that sink in for a minute…twenty-five of her closest friends. That…MORE

"The Craftsman" by Nick Twietmeyer documents the last days of Steve Howell's Ballard Forge at Fenpro.

By Nick Twietmeyer

From inside the Fenpro building in Ballard you can hear all manner of noises. Sometimes it's an angle grinder…MORE

Last week Ballard resident, Diane Bedell, spoke to third grade students at St. John School about surviving a heart transplant and how it led to her participating as a tag sled driver in the opening ceremony of Alaska’s legendary Iditarod dog sled…MORE

By Amanda Knox

By the end of our four-day trip to Detroit, Chris, Gavin and I were silly giddy. It was that state of exhaustion when you really should go to bed but instead linger a little longer. It was not enough sleep, sensory overload…MORE