Ballard - Features

By Katy Wilkens, MS, RD

Winter is a perfect time to enjoy legumes like dried beans and lentils. They are some of nature’s “super foods,” naturally low in sodium and packed with protein, minerals and good fiber that helps lower your…MORE

By Peggy Sturdivant

A longtime friend told me last summer to stop trying to keep up with my twenty-two year-old daughter. Is it because Emily seems so serious in my company that I have to play teenager? Or am I trying to prove that I am…MORE

By Christy Wolyniak

Ballard author, Ingrid Ricks, has been an unstoppable force since the release of her memoir, Hippie Boy - a coming-of-age story of a girl grappling with abuse, crippling poverty, love, and religious misuse.

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By Peggy Sturdivant with additional reporting by Izzi Cooper

Even on the peak day of a summer heat wave I never think to myself, “I’ll just go to Golden Gardens and take a dip.”

So I just had to ask different groups of people…MORE

“We are a machine. We do pretty much everything.”

Those are the words of Scott Anderson, CSR Marine co-owner with Tim Ryan, describing the things his team of over 40 workers perform every day for their customers.

In lieu of a…MORE

By Katy Wilkens, MS, RD

I read cookbooks at night in bed. I love reading about food and looking at recipes and photographs of food. I am not alone. Americans buy more cookbooks than any other type of book.

I have shelves of…MORE

Two words come to mind to describe police officer Eric Michl: dedicated and loyal.

Michl has had a long career with the Seattle Police Department and he is trusted as a voice of reason when it comes to driving under the influence.

By Peggy Sturdivant

To make a long story short: a Ballard family responded to a column I wrote entitled “Dear Santa” and this led to many good things.

The family enjoyed a delicious pancake breakfast and what seemed excessive…MORE

He’s been named the “the embodiment of the renaissance in Seattle” and “a wizard from Valhalla,” but many know Regnor Reinholdtsen as a humble potter and teacher.

Beyond pottery, Reinholdtsen is a complex man with many hobbies including…MORE

By Peggy Sturdivant

There is a “book row” taking shape (triangular) in Ballard between the historic Murphy Building and the finally reopened retail corner of 20th NW. The most visible businesses are All the Best Pet Care and Bauhaus Coffee…MORE