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2026 coho-in-creeks spring season wraps for hundreds of students, assisted by volunteers handling ‘new challenges’

(Photo by Tom Trulin – Monitor Dennis Hinton with a healthy coho smolt) By Judy Pickens Special to West Seattle Blog Volunteers have just capped a busy spring of comings and goings by coho salmon in West Seattle creeks. Because culvert construction has temporarily closed upper Fauntleroy Creek to Salmon in the Schools releases, volunteers […]

COUNTDOWN: One month until West Seattle 4th of July Kids’ Parade – more than a parade

(WSB July 4, 2025, photo by Oliver Hamlin) Now that it’s the 4th of June, we have the chance to remind you that we’re exactly one month away from the peninsula’s biggest 4th of July event – the Kids’ Parade, again presented by the Admiral Neighborhood Association, 10 am start along a neighborhood route that […]

Welcome to The Stranger’s Queer Issue

The Democrats and the mainstream media have pushed me out of the greatest cabinet in Earth’s 4,000-year history, and The Stranger, a publication I have never heard of but was familiar with my excellent track record, asked me to temporarily fill in as its public editor for this “queer” issue. They had read about my […] The post Welcome to The Stranger’s Queer Issue appeared first on The Stranger.

New Music You Shouldn’t Miss

SkerikSKERIK 061725(Loosegroove) Seattle saxophonist Skerik (aka Eric Walton) has done seemingly everything a musician can do in his 30-year career. Even a cursory rundown of his activities would exceed my word count, but, real quick: He’s toured with Roger Waters and Les Claypool, guested on Sunn O)))’s Monoliths & Dimensions, and headed over a dozen […] The post New Music You Shouldn’t Miss appeared first on The Stranger.

Reading, singing, running, walking, learning, more for your West Seattle Thursday!

Thanks to Stewart L. for the photo of sea lions seen early today at Don Armeni Boat Ramp. Here are our highlights for today/tonight, from the WSB West Seattle Event Calendar (where you’ll find even more – thanks to everyone who sends events for us to share!): FREE PLAYSPACE: Church of the Nazarene‘s free drop-in […]

Slog AM: Trump’s Cabinet Is Full of Suckups, NASA Says Goodbye to Mars Orbiter, Workers at Walrus and the Carpenter Authorize a Strike

Good Morning! It’s still spring in Seattle, so we have another partly cloudy, 60-something degree day ahead of us. It’s farmer’s market weather. It’s weather to take your (or someone else’s) dog on a long, breezy walk. Smoke season comes for us all eventually, so just get outside. But first, the news. Kissing the Ring: […] The post Slog AM: Trump’s Cabinet Is Full of Suckups, NASA Says Goodbye to Mars Orbiter, Workers at Walrus and the Carpenter Authorize a Strike appeared first on The Stranger.

YOUTH SPORTS: Free flag-football clinic Sunday

Flag football is a growing sport and the West Seattle YMCA (WSB sponsor) is offering girls 10 to 16 years old a chance to learn the basics for free. It’s noon-2 pm this Sunday (June 7) at Denny International Middle School (2601 SW Kenyon); registration info is on this flyer provided by organizers or at […]

‘Wait, Capitol Hill Is Gay?’

This story originally appeared in The Stranger’s 2026 Queer Issue. Happy Anniversary! It’s been one year since Christian supremacists took over a historically queer park in Seattle’s historically queer neighborhood. The event, which you may have read about in last year’s Queer Issue, was part of the Mayday USA tour, an anti-trans, anti-abortion spectacle specifically […] The post ‘Wait, Capitol Hill Is Gay?’ appeared first on The Stranger.

TRAFFIC CAMS, TRANSIT, WEATHER: Thursday info

6:00 AM: Good morning! It’s Thursday, June 4, 2026. WEATHER + SUNRISE/SUNSET Possible morning rain, then partly sunny, high in the upper 60s, breezy. Sunrise was at 5:13 am; sunset will be at 9:02 pm. (Wednesday sunrise photo by Theresa Arbow-O’Connor) TRANSIT TODAY Metro buses – Regular schedules. Washington State Ferries – Fauntleroy/Vashon/Southworth route is […]

UPDATE: ‘Scenes of violence’ response for shooting in Highland Park

11:45 PM: Police and SFD are arriving at what’s reported as the scene of a shooting in the 7700 block of 11th SW. Updates to come. 11:48 PM: One victim is reported to have multiple gunshot wounds.

PHOTOS, VIDEO: New mural at South Seattle College

Story and photos by Torin Record-Sand Reporting for West Seattle Blog “In a budget crisis and a country which centers capitalism above all else; arts tends to not be the focus, and is the first thing to get cut. But here, we still believe in its continued importance and ability to bring community together.” These […]