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By Lindsay Peyton

Ken Shaw calls it “an act of vandalism” – the city’s addition of rock to trails at Schmitz Preserve Park, located at 5551 SW Admiral Way, just down the street from his house.

“It’s the wildest landscape in the city…MORE

By Amanda Knox

I love the end of the year, if simply because there are enough holidays crammed together that many relatives and friends who are spread far and wide actually have the time off to travel and visit home. One such friend, a…MORE

By Peggy Sturdivant The day after Christmas I was in the Golden Gardens parking lot at 8:10 a.m. (late) holding my yogurt granola and an Americano. The sky was pink, hinting at the presence of a sun after the month’s record-breaking rain.

By Jeanne Kohl-Welles

By the time you read this, I already will have resigned from the state Senate and taken office as an elected member of the King County Council for District 4, succeeding my dear friend, Council Chair Larry Phillips,…MORE

By Chef Jeremy McLachlan

There's nothing better to get those Christmas songs out of your head than a citrus cleanse. I hear the songs singing and ring ting tingling until I have a lemon drop! This month I am devoted to showing you how…MORE

By Chef Jeremy McLachlan

There's nothing better to get those Christmas songs out of your head than a citrus cleanse. I hear the songs singing and ring ting tingling until I have a lemon drop! This month I am devoted to showing you how…MORE

By Kathryn Kingen

The holidays are over and the calm of January is here. It's like a big deep breath after the frenetic holiday rush. The first of the year is a great time to take stock, size things up (or down as the case may be) and take…MORE

By Kathryn Kingen

The holidays are over and the calm of January is here. It's like a big deep breath after the frenetic holiday rush. The first of the year is a great time to take stock, size things up (or down as the case may be) and take…MORE

 by Georgie Bright Kunkel               In centuries past people worked from dusk to dawn without a break for Sunday. However, after Christians began to celebrate the Sabbath, there was at least one day of rest.  In my childhood, Sundays were…MORE

by Lee Robinson (from April 1965)(ed note:) Lee Robinson was Jerry’s wife and assistant editor at the paper for a number of years. She often wrote Jerry’s column when he was out of town or simply because he fell asleep in the evening and did not…MORE