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Merry Christmas West Seattle! All of us at the West Seattle Herald, Highline Times, Ballard News Tribune and our print edition the Westside Weekly wish you the best this holiday season.

by Georgie Bright Kunkel

There are numerous appreciation days celebrated in this country--

Veterans Day, Mother’s Day, Father’s Day just to name a few. But in a society that reveres the fat cats of the world, it is unusual to…MORE

“New Year Ponderings”

A newspaper writer in my hometown was as predictable as a tunnel-digging budget shortfall. As the end of the year approached---every year---he would inevitably write his annual “Predictions for the year to come”…MORE

By Georgie Bright Kunkel

To be special is to be at the right place at the right time. Every famous person had the intelligence and ingenuity to stand out from the crowd in some special way. It was the person who found themselves in the…MORE

by Rob Ketcherside

In 1888 Thomas Ewing had the good fortune to invest in West Seattle. His industry was mining: big, million-dollar mines. He had a corporate stake in mines in Nevada, Colorado, California, Utah and Arizona, and lived in…MORE

by Pat Cashman

A few years ago, I stopped at a little convenience store. My then-teenage daughter wondered why. “Because I like stores that are little and convenient,” I said.

She shot back. “Well then you must also like…MORE

By Amanda Knox

Callan Barth, ensemble member in this year’s 5th Avenue production of A Christmas Story, is wasting no time in assimilating as much as he can toward his professional life as an artist. Acting, singing, dancing, writing—Barth…MORE

By Amanda Knox

After seeing the ArtsWest production of Judy’s Scary Little Christmas, it’s tempting to limit myself to echoing director Troy Wageman’s prediction of what anyone would think after seeing it: “What did I just watch? Whatever…MORE

by Pat Cashman

We bit the holiday bullet last year and bought an artificial Christmas tree. It looks genuine, but it’s entirely fake---sort of like a top-of-the-line toupee.

My wife had been pushing for the imitation evergreen…MORE

by Scott Anthony

After Dad passed this last spring, the task fell to us, his kids, to go through his belongings and sort out the items we wished to keep and those that might benefit charities like Goodwill.  In the garage this winter I…MORE