Click pic to play video That short video clip shows Cindi Barker, of Morgan Community Association and so many other endeavors, accepting a Seattle Police Department Citizen Appreciation Award from Police Chief Gil Kerlikowske tonight at City Hall (and toward the end of the clip, you see Mark Howard from the ...

The first results have just been posted (find the link here), from mail-in ballots counted today. Meantime, just noticed King County - which is really getting out ahead in the online game, with County Executive Ron Sims' blog and Twitter feed among other things - has an election-night blog. We'll ...

We mentioned this morning that today marked the start of freshman orientation at West Seattle High School. Linda and Joey Vargas e-mailed tonight to say one thing went awfully wrong for the freshman in their family - but maybe you can help solve the crime: My son left his bike inside ...

As always, we prefer to watch the National Weather Service "forecast discussion" for more specifics on what's on the way - it should be updated by 9:30 or so tonight, but the most recent version suggests our area won't see major effects of the "unseasonably vigorous" oncoming storm till very ...

We started working on a story about this interesting project some time back and got sidetracked. Never fear - now you can read all about it at the Delridge Leadership blog, which is a great place to check daily (the link's in our Neighborhood Groups sidebar section) for all sorts ...

We caught those seagulls in full picnic-interrupting action at Alki this afternoon, just as we read a note from Lora Lewis at Hotwire Coffee (WSB sponsor) reminding one and all that the rescheduled West Seattle Movies on the Wall showing of "Finding Nemo" is this Thursday night -- and we ...

One more reminder, it's Primary Election Day - with Top Two voting in the contested races. According to County Executive Ron Sims' Twitter feed, they're now projecting 40% voter turnout. Complete county election info here; we'll post about the results here tonight.Share This

This just popped up on the LA Times Twitter feed we monitor (remember, you can follow us on Twitter, at westseattleblog; we also have set up a Twitter account for our partner site at whitecenternow): The "Save the Plastic c12 Bag Coalition" has sued the Southern California city of Manhattan Beach ...

Obviously the name of this almost-done condo complex on the north edge of The Junction (just north of this site) has to do with the nearest cross-street; nonetheless, it was an odd coincidence that we noticed the sign for the first time while the car radio was playing a John ...