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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

Junction area restaurants were packed on Friday Dec. 2 but that's all the more surprising because the Husky Deli was holding it's annual holiday open house and it was wall to wall people all lined up to taste the chocolates, pasta, chicken,…MORE

UPDATE: 6:45 pm The lights are now on! See the images at the end of the slide show.

Original post A crew of men, led by Josh Menashe were a blur of activity at the home of his parents Jack and Linda Menashe at 5605 Beach Drive s.w. where…MORE

The Sign Savant, Japhy Witte who the West Seattle Herald told you about last year, has begun his annual holiday window painting, starting with Cafe Ladro, south of the Morgan Street Junction at 7011 California Ave s.w., working with his…MORE