West Seattle - Features

Seattle Police Department Southwest Precinct Crime Prevention Coordinator Mark Solomon has released his September newsletter, and this time it’s all about robberies: The fact that they are spiking citywide, and several tips on how to safeguard…MORE

If all goes according to plan (and permits) The Tap Station, a place for craft beers and select wines to go, should be open by late September according to the owners. Hopefully the week of Sept. 23. The West Seattle Herald was the first to tell…MORE

By Georgie Bright Kunkel

Old habits die hard as they say. I still cling to my old habit of buying only what I really need. If I didn’t have the money, I always went without whatever it was that I thought I had to have. The “I want it…MORE

UPDATE Sept. 13

Kendra Mcleod has reached her goal of $2300 necessary to walk in Susan G. Komen 3-Day Walk coming up Sept. 20-22.

Mcleod said, "I feel really blessed I've been given the financial support I need to do this adventure…MORE

For the 9th year now the Seafair Clowns have conducted their School Supply Giveaway and Friday September 6th was the day for students from White Center's Roxhill Elementary.

The 450 students at the school got a visit not just from the…MORE

A high flying trapeze emporium is the setting for the fundraiser for WestSide Baby on Sept. 27. Emerald City Trapeze Arts at 2702 6th Ave. South is a new venue for the organization's fund raising efforts and this event will feature live music…MORE

Jordan Adams got her dog Harold 10 years ago as a stray (he's about 13 now). He's a Great Pyrenees mix she said and she found him in South Dakota on the Pineridge Indian Reservation where she was doing small construction work. She was 15 years…MORE

In late August the King County Prosecutor’s Office proclaimed “For the first time in decades, King County is experiencing a surplus in jail beds,” with an estimated daily population of 1700 inmates in 2013, down from an average of 2900 in 2000…MORE

By Maggie Nicholson

In 1934, twins were born to a Swedish couple named Axel and Anna. Anna died in childbirth, and Axel gave the boy and girl up for adoption. They were taken in by Dietrich and Peggy Schmitz. The process was different in…MORE

By Clay Eals A dozen years later, Dean Keppler reels at the memory. His eyes well up. His voice chokes as he talks haltingly, reverently and, in the end, almost dazedly in trying to describe the indescribable. “It all just happened,” he says,…MORE