West Seattle - Features

By Rob Ketcherside   There's a story waiting to be told here, about racism.   Alki Beach opened on July 4th, 1911. You probably know that Alki means "by and by" or "before long", and that Seattle's first name was New York Alki. The first ship of…MORE

by Pat Cashman

When I first came to this area many years ago, I heard the name “Kalakala”---and since I was in the broadcast business, my first thought was that it was the longest set of call letters I’d ever heard.

The name…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 Chef Jeremy McLachlan

Let's not mince words. Never trust a skinny chef! I know I'm overweight like many chefs — we love to cook and we're constantly tasting what we cook. We even eat our mistakes! How else would we know we've made an…MORE

by Kathryn Kingen

What's the matter, Buddy? You say you're tired of holiday stuffing and eating? You say your Christmas outfit is pinching you around the middle, because it's the size you wore last year? You say you've run out of Kleenex…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

by Pat Cashman

My wife and I were looking at a beautiful sunset over Hawaii the other day. More specifically, we were looking at a photo of a beautiful sunset over Hawaii. There must be photos of beautiful sunsets over Covington, but…MORE

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