Ballard - Features

By Peggy Sturdivant

“Those folks are all gone,” a friend still working with the Nordic Heritage Museum’s Oral History project told me recently. Evidently “Voices of Ballard: Immigrant Stories from the Vanishing Generation” was aptly titled…MORE

Seattle has a brand new “green” fire station that is ranked the best in the Washington State in environmental efficiency measures.

Fire Station 20 meets the 2015 energy reduction guidelines of the Architecture 2030 challenge, and its…MORE

By Peggy Sturdivant

In the last few days I have traveled far from Ballard. I have been to the Dominican Republic under the tyranny of Trujillo, to Selma, Alabama in 1964, and to Pittsburgh during the Depression. It was only for Pittsburgh…MORE

A new boat race is being compared to the Iditarod and is bringing boat designers and competitors out from the woodwork for a chance to show off their skills and endurance.

The Race to Alaska is a 750-mile motorless boat race from Port…MORE

By Peggy Sturdivant

“Why didn’t you have a column last week?” a friend asked.

“Because I was in a funk,” I answered. She nodded, seemingly satisfied with my answer.

Here’s a problem though. My column deadline is always…MORE

By Katy Wilkens, MS, RD Nutrition and fitness manager, Northwest Kidney Centers

After Thanksgiving, the second biggest eating holiday is Super Bowl Sunday. Most game day snacks served to guests in front of the TV are loaded with sodium.…MORE

Former captain of the Ballard High School Basketball team, Brad Baker, is jumpstarting youth basketball in North Seattle by being head coach of the new Ballard Youth Basketball program.

BYB aims to bring together players in seventh…MORE

By Pat Cashman

Crummy joke I use at charity auctions---especially those that might feature Seahawks game tickets: “Hey, how many people here in the room actually traveled to New Jersey to see the Hawks in the Super Bowl?” Perhaps a few…MORE

By Calvin W. GoingsRegion 10 Administrator U.S. Small Business Administration

Millennials, born between 1980 and the mid-2000s, are the largest generation in the United States, representing one-third of the total U.S. population in 2013.…MORE

By Georgie Bright Kunkel

In an age of computer hacking and scams it is imperative to keep one’s private information secret. Every site that we visit on line therefore must be entered with a special password. The problem is that we then…MORE