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By Georgie Bright Kunkel

In small towns all over the world there are families gathering on special occasions. Humans seem to require celebrations to put more meaning into life. Easter, for Christians at least, is one of those times.…MORE

West Seattle Thriftway held their 25th Anniversary Easter Egg Hunt on March 30 with the largest number of eggs at 35,000 they have ever had. They had hundreds of kids and parent lined up outside waiting for the Easter Bunny to open the event.…MORE

As we all know now, after months of construction and taunting passersby, BevMo! is now open at 849 NW 46th St, across from Fred Meyer (Remember, grand opening is on April 5). And, true to what it promised, it is indeed a warehouse full of booze…MORE

EDITORS NOTE: This is the second article in our series 'An Untold Life.' These are stories of people in our community whose lives touched others and whose stories deserve to be told.

By Maggie Nicholson

James Sherman Wessels was…MORE

Sweet Mickey's Candy Shoppe Annual Easter Egg Hunt

What: What better combo? Sweet Mickey's, the delicious old-fashioned candy shoppe, is holding their first annual Easter egg hunt at the Ballard Commons right next door to them. A raffle…MORE

Each year, vehicles release 7 million quarts of motor oil are released into the Puget Sound basin.

If you don't measure things in quarts, that would be 1.75 million gallons.

Or, if you measure in money, that's about $53 million…MORE

By Charlie Ganong

In case you haven't noticed, a new fashion craze has clomped onto the scene. I'm speaking, of course, about women's boots. Today nearly every gal you see in West Seattle, Westwood Village or Burien is either a.) tightly…MORE

West Seattle's Gabriel Marquez is an unusual man when it comes to his exercise routine. He walks. Okay, not that unusual. More than a mile. A lot of people do that. But Marquez does it in the waters of Puget Sound about once a week traveling from…MORE

Darlene Corcoran got her dog JC, who is part pug, part Boston Terrier, about 3 1/2 years ago from a breeder in Yakima who breeds Terriers and pugs.

Cororan grew up in West Seattle and when her husband passed away four years ago she was…MORE

As they say, “All ships rise with the tide,” or maybe rather, “Rising suds lift all breweries.”

Such is the case in Ballard, where the list of breweries is fast becoming a lengthy one: Hale’s Ales (4301 Leary Way NW), Maritime Pacific…MORE