Big day for work parties! Thanks to Josh Sutton for the pix and this report: Rotarians Bill Fazekas (left) and Ryan Reese split firewood today at YMCA Camp Colman, where the weather held out most of the day. Located on Key Peninsula, Camp Colman has an almost-100-year connection to West Seattle, fou...

Sarah Bonzer e-mailed today to ask if we’d share a request that she in turn is sharing on behalf of her friend and co-worker, Katie Hogan; both of them live in West Seattle - that’s a candid photo of Katie at left, sent after we asked Sarah for one to go with this story. Before reading K...

An announcement from the Seattle Public Schools communications team says two Chief Sealth High School students, Michelle Tran and Mohamed Mohamed, are heading for New York City to attend the National Academy Foundation ’s annual gala, along with four other students from the district. Read on t...

(Chris Holm, Gwen Schwenzer, Georgie Kunkel, Elaine Russell and Anita Lusk) By Christopher Boffoli West Seattle Blog contributing journalist There was a completely different version of West Seattle on display this afternoon: one in which people were happy to work for 59 cents an hour and bought thei...

Earlier Monday, we mentioned the deadline to sign up for West Seattle Girls Softball ; we’ve since heard from West Seattle Pee Wee Baseball president Eric Olson, saying their deadline’s fast approaching too: Wednesday is the last chance to save money on registration with West Seattle Pee...

That’s what Stacey Bushaw told us about an hour ago, looking around at what she called “the second wave” of people filling Talarico’s for this afternoon’s benefit, raising money for the family of her cousin Steve Bushaw, shot outside the Junction restaurant one week ago...

Those are the two local students who recently posted a note in the WSB Forums that caught our eye. It read, in part: Our names are Grace Puffert and Mary Griffin and we’re seniors at Seattle Lutheran High School. Every year, each senior is required to create and execute a senior project that s...

Among your many entertainment options on tonight’s West Seattle Weekend Lineup : Two “classic silent comedies” accompanied (with ragtime!) by Donald Sosin at Kenyon Hall (interior photo above). If you aren’t well-acquainted with that venue, time to fix that. We revisited the ...

On Monday, we showed you Katy Lloyd and her daughters at Jefferson Square Safeway , kicking off a 10-hour diaper drive for WestSide Baby that Katy organized as part of National Day of Service, with other volunteers taking the baton later in the day. Late last night, she sent us word of final results...

You saw the massive crowd in national-media video. What was it like to be part of it - not just during the ceremony, but for hours before? Our first report comes from Carter and Dan, the Fauntleroy residents who’ve been sharing their stories from DC the past few days: We’re expecting qui...