Opinion

By Kyra-lin Hom

Living in a big city like Seattle or where I am in Chicago, you very quickly become accustomed to graffiti’ed adverts. Billboards, posters and fliers – they all make perfect targets for artistic delinquincy. Particular…MORE

A this same time 38 years ago, Jeff Larsen, the once editor of the Ballard News Tribune, griped in an opinion editorial about an impending decision to add parking meters to Market Street.

Can you imagine a time when parking created such…MORE

by Cindi RinehartEditor's Note:Our communities are rich with talented and interesting people.One is Cindi Rinehart, a West Seattleite. In person, she is just as vivacious as she was on KOMO TV where she gave us the inside scoop for years on all…MORE

By Kyra-lin Hom

Happy post-turkey day, everyone! I hope your Thanksgivings were satisfying and that Black Friday found you well rested and untrampled. Have you seen the videos on Youtube yet? I don’t think anything about a DVD player…MORE

By Mike and Jerry Robinson

So Dad says, "I'm bored." He's 93, doesn't get around much any more. But he loves his Papa Chair and his view of Puget Sound, the big tankers ploughing past, the white regattas riffling. I said, "So let's get…MORE

By Mike and Jerry Robinson

So Dad says, "I'm bored." He's 93, doesn't get around much any more. But he loves his Papa Chair and his view of Puget Sound, the big tankers ploughing past, the white regattas riffling. I said, "So let's get…MORE

The Three Tree Point community in Burien lost long time resident last week. Louisa Rice, wife of Ray Rice, passed away.

The residents will surely miss her. She lived in the house on the tip and most beach residents knew her as the host…MORE

By Peggy Sturdivant

It is not an exaggeration to say that the pharmacists at Ballard’s Bartell Drugs have saved lives, and that is just within my own family. It was a pharmacist there who realized that an on-call doctor’s prescription…MORE

By Georgie Bright Kunkel Looking at the slick and colorful pages of the Time-Life books covering life through the ages it is amazing to see the sumptuous garments and complicated hairdos of women from the fifteenth through the seventeenth…MORE

By Kyra-lin Hom

When I first pictured moving in to my own place, my imagination was… a bit ambitious. I had color wheels, floor plans and décor themes. I perused all the apartment style books in Barnes and Noble and consulted more than one…MORE