West Seattle - Features

The Timberland WagonEars mule carriage is back for rides around the Junction during the Hometown Holidays. The team, made up of mules Penny and Pat (half sisters), and run by Raschell Hermann, provides rides on Sundays in December from 11 am to 3…MORE

Photographers of all stripes took advantage of the last lunar eclipse until 2014 early on Saturday, Dec. 10 and set up their tripods to catch some photos of the moon being shadowed by the earth. It was visible in the cold clear air until just…MORE

A West Seattle family is being sought to host an international student from Korea from Feb 1 to Jan 31, 2013.

The student is female and will attend 9th grade at West Seattle High School, so the family needs to be in their attendance area…MORE

Locöl Barley and Vine (7902 35th s.w.) played host to three noteworthy jazz players on Friday Dec. 9 in a late night show.

Grammy Award winning musician Clark Sommers {bass} who has played on multiple recordings with Kurt Elling, Kobie…MORE

Every community has its share of Christmas lights from the single string of white lights in the window of an apartment to the most elaborate animated or just mega wattage displays.

Photographer David Rosen spent the last few nights on the…MORE

A new Christmas book, "Santa's First Magical Ride" was just released by West Seattle residents Paul and Libby Carr, their 12 chapters of rhyming couplets augmented by world-class illustrator Herb Leonhard of Prosser, WA. Paul was the author,…MORE

On Dec. 1, the City Year team at Roxhill Elementary School celebrated the end of a school-wide Hunger Awareness Month Campaign with the school's first Empty Bowls Banquet.

All students and families were invited to share a humble meal of…MORE

Susan Terjeson got her Scottish Terrier August from a breeder in Sammamish just 18 months ago and he came by that name because as Terjeson explained, " When I was a kid we lived on a farm in Iowa and down the road was a farmer named August Huey…MORE

The Great Depression hit Portland, Oregon in 1929,and like many other cities it had its struggles. Jobs were scarce and sometimes common sense was more scarce.

I was about nine and standing in line with my mom at the Pay n' Take-It grocery…MORE

Those seeking holiday cheer have visited the Rice family's front yard Christmas display with Peanuts cartoon characters for 36 years, at 2128 47th Ave. SW, a few blocks north of Admiral Way. Don is busy once again arranging and reinforcing the 6-…MORE