West Seattle - Features

Approaching holiday columns – or really holiday themed anything – is always a challenge for me. Everything that can/has/should be said is already out there. No alien is going to beam some brand new, never-before-seen-on-earth thought into my head…MORE

Finney, whose proper name is Huckleberry Finn, is a 10 year old yellow lab and he lives with Ann and Marty Ruybalid and their daughter Zia.

He's an outstanding runner, logging some 7 to 10 miles daily in Lincoln Park or Alki.

He…MORE

Mountain 2 Sound Outfitters, the local ski and paddle boarding specialty store in West Seattle has just relaunched a new, redesigned website, www.shop.m2soutfitters.com The site features 331 products from ski boots to paddle boards. The site…MORE

2011 has been a remarkable year and this community has seen some amazing events we will bring you next week in a year end review. But for now, whether you are home with family, enjoying some time off, sampling holiday goodies or just enjoying the…MORE

The ever-energetic 91 year-old Georgie Bright Kunkel has a crowded home. That's because the stand-up comedienne, book author, and West Seattle Herald columnist, has accumulated over 75 dolls, both during her childhood, and travels abroad. She has…MORE

One of the most popular rock bands in the Northwest from the late 60's through 1975, CHILD is set to to make a reunion appearance in West Seattle at the RockSport Bar and Grill Feb. 18.

The band whose members over it's existence featured…MORE

The Suburban King County Coordinating Council on Gangs (“the Council”) is a unique partnership between the Center for Children and Youth Justice and high-level decision makers from across South and East King County that is focused on creating a…MORE

The book "Adios, Nirvana", released by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt a year ago October, is due out in paperback by Jan. 10. The author, Conrad Wesselhoeft, a Fauntleroy resident, set the book's story, considered young adult fiction with crossover…MORE

Watson is a Chinook and he's relatively rare. His owner Tara Breitenbucher said, "He's one of only 800 in existence. Chinook's are a rare breed of sled dog."

By Jerry Robinson, Publisher

If you still don't have your Christmas tree up, here's a solution like we did when we were kids. You have to get up real early, before the neighbors, even.

We had no money (it was the Great Depression)…MORE