West Seattle - Features

Forty five years ago, at the height of the race to the Moon, a young White Center dentist filled a void, helping to develop a special kids play area called Astro City Children's Park.

 The White Center Chamber needed someone to spearhead a…MORE

West Seattle Junction business owner Geoff Abdian of Suite Arrangements Furniture Consignment reports a significant sighting he made of a "menacing" pack of coyotes he saw in the Admiral District.

"Driving home Friday evening around 10:30…MORE

As the weather turns colder there are compensations. Soup and coffee seem to taste better, you might get a little more reading done and you come to appreciate your wool scarf a little more. But nature offers beauty all her own as the leaves…MORE

UPDATE: Nov. 22

The owners of Coco & Co shared this news about their upcoming Grand Opening. "CoCo & Co, will be having a Grand Opening and Holiday Party on Wednesday, December 21st. Come by any time between 4PM to 8PM to meet the…MORE

David Myka has many books, but if he invites you into his library, you will not see one. That's because he is a luthier, or guitar maker, and what he calls his library is actually an organized collection of stacks of nearly 50 types of wood,…MORE

An exclusive array of the greater region’s talented community of artists will display and sell their work November 18th – 20th at Seattle’s Smith Cove on Pier 91 near the Magnolia Bridge. Among the group will be jewelry designer Linda Grimes…MORE

If you are heading west on the Spokane Street Viaduct and look south in the evening you are likely to see a very large lit Christmas tree. Standing approximately 80 feet tall this glowing holiday symbol near West Marginal Way is accomplishing…MORE

press release: Tis' the Season for the expanding "honey-do" lists! The list may be daunting, but the actions don't need to be.

Join the West Seattle Tool Libarary for camaraderie (and pizza!) at this monthly event (every 2nd Thurs) and get…MORE

In March, 1945, an FM-2 Navy Grumman fighter plane took off from the flight deck of the USS Petrof Bay on a strafing mission of the beaches of Okinawa. Fourteen years later, that same plane landed in a park in White Center, where local kids…MORE

Heidi Erland is a photographer and got her dog Robley, a Red Merle Australian Shepherd 2 1/2 years ago. "He was born in Canada in eastern Alberta but his parents are from the U.S." She got the dog from a breeder in Canada named Caitland Aussies…MORE