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A few generations ago Popeye was right when he told the kiddies to always eat their spinach. And many children obeyed. They ate their vegetables, along with their meat and potatoes just like mom and dad, and Popeye, told them to do. But that is…MORE

For many people the nation of Nepal is a mountainous mystery. Reports from climbers of the world's highest peaks, and news of conflicts with the government only add to the level of uncertainty about a place that was possibly the inspiration for…MORE

Timber, an admittedly male name, is nevertheless the name of the female cat that obviously owns David Rosen and Kendra McLeod. Rosen, a contributing photographer for the West Seattle Herald also works in his own business SlickPix Photography…MORE

The deadline for the The West Seattle Rotary Club Service Foundation Vern Gambriell Scholarship is coming up in just a few weeks. Feb 15 is the last day that applications can be made for the annual award totaling about $6000, given entirely to…MORE

That is a historic tree behind my mom. She no longer lives in Fentonwood. But that grand tree in the background will thrive there another four or five hundred years, when all of us will have long since gone to that big treehouse in the sky.

West Seattle High School senior Spencer Weglin, 18, is so enterprising, one of his teachers suggested he quit "wasting time" in school and dive right into his career. But which? He has so many, and he maintains a 3.98 grade point average while…MORE

Many of our readers are familiar with our stories on West Seattle filmmaker Jamie Chamberlin and his video work with rock musicians from ZZ Top to the local sounds of Villains of Yesterday, Star Anna, and Victoria Contreras.

Last week's…MORE

Longtime Seattle Seafair Pirate fans may recall the edgier era of those saber-rattling, masked men. Member Robb Zerr, was "Hurricane" from 1982-1990. He just wrote a new book, "Memoirs of a Buccaneer: 30 Years Before the Mast", a 432-page…MORE

In March of 2010 a small group of West Seattleites and members of St. John the Baptist Episcopal Church set out on a 9000 mile trek to build a secondary school in Mulundi Village, Kenya.

You can read about their trip here and here.

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The media coverage (some might say frenzy) leading up to this week’s storm hit the airwaves hard by mid January. There were predictions of over a foot of snow hitting the region and anticipations of society coming to a halt as a result. "…MORE