West Seattle - Features

By Holly Brown

For a pasta loading, carb loving, bread craving foodie like me, the idea of going gluten free was about as likely as growing pointed ears and hitching a ride on the Starship Enterprise. However, with friends and family…MORE

It’s been almost seven months since Seattle imposed a plastic bag ban requiring retailers and grocers to stop offering single-use plastic bags at checkout, and feedback from a 2012 survey shows a majority of shoppers and retail employees approve…MORE

Brynne Flidais got her dog Ginger Anne as a rescue from Barks Are Us which is a foster care organization for pets, may of whom come from the Yakima area. Going through Petfinder.com Flidais found the perfect dog. "She was taken from a kill…MORE

Mark Solomon, the crime prevention coordinator for the Seattle Police Department's Southwest Precinct in West Seattle, released his January newsletter and this one is all about how to deal with a nuisance property in your neighborhood.

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Paul Bauer lived on Russett and Union Ave in Portland. He was about 16 and inspired by Tex Rankin flying his WACO to the airport near the Columbia Slough. So he built one in the basement of his Dad's grocery store but he could not get it out of…MORE

By Georgie Bright Kunkel

Don’t you hate it when all you want when you are feeling under the weather is sympathy but instead you get, “Have you tried ginger, onion and lemon tea?” I must admit that this special tea is a wonderfully…MORE

Lifewise Health Plan of Washington is sponsoring a high school video contest called Hunt 4 Health. West Seattle High School is among the top ten finalists.

The goal of the contest was to get students to portray students staying healthy and…MORE

Mark Sears, whose day job is managing Colman Pool (he also lives there) has been doing research on Orcas for more than 30 years. His direct personal experience with these marine mammals will be the subject of his presentation on Thursday Jan. 24…MORE

For a select crew of third grade students from White Center Heights Elementary, Jan. 14 was a pretty sweet day as they met their new reading tutors for the next 8 to 10 weeks: High school students from the Evergreen campus.

That Monday…MORE

A Seattle film maker, Collin Monda has assembled a short but evocative film on the closure of the Easy Street Records Queen Anne location. The closure, brought about by the loss of the lease, will happen January 18 with a live appearance of the…MORE