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
West Seattle - Features
Trees hold special meaning to me
Mon, 01/23/12
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.
…MOREWSHS studious senior is also entrepreneur, paid for truck before he could drive
Sun, 01/22/12
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
Filmmaker Jamie Chamberlin utilizes snow at Hiawatha for unsettling noir short
Sat, 01/21/12
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
UPDATE: Former Alki Pirate, "Hurricane" to sign his "Memoirs of a Buccaneer" at Shipwreck Tavern tonight until 9pm
Fri, 01/20/12
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
West Seattle to Kenya: Local group continues to make a difference 9000 miles away
Fri, 01/20/12
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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SLIDESHOW: Snowcap recap; West Seattle was locked in snow and ice for days
Fri, 01/20/12
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
Local organizer aids the hoarding obsessed; works with therapists
Fri, 01/20/12
Like slowing down to leer at a gruesome car accident, viewers seem fascinated with popular TV shows that take them inside hoarders' homes. We can't help but stare at those obsessed with hanging on to everything, decades-old paper napkins, opened…MORE
Pet of the Week: Murray is a curious Cairn
Wed, 01/18/12
Christina Gould loves Murray, her Cairn Terrier for many reasons but he can be a bit too curious at times. More on that in a moment.
Murray, came from a breeder (who named him) in Portland, Oregon about 7 and a half years ago. She feeds…MORE
Winter waves wash over the wall at Alki
Wed, 01/18/12
Splish splash, the Alki promenade is taking a bath, especially by the Alki Bathhouse today as high winds and turbulent waves blow in over the more tranquil thick blanket of snow during this weather-eventful day.
While the weather was…MORE