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Stay in touch with the Shoreline Area News

Wednesday, June 27, 2012

There are many ways to stay in touch with the Shoreline Area News.

  • The simplest is to bookmark our website and go to it frequently: Shoreline Area News (dot) com
  • A very popular method is to sign up for an email subscription: sign up here
  • Younger readers tend to prefer our Facebook page: Shoreline Area News
    • If you "Like" the page, the stories will appear on your FB more often
  • A few depend on our Twitter feed:  @ShorelineArea
  • Some have RSS feeds, which means the articles stream to their home page or email
  • And a few people "follow" our blog
If you want to send a particular story to a friend, there is an email box at the bottom of each story - it's a little envelope with an arrow. Or you can double-click the story title. This will take you to the story on the web and you can copy the link (URL) in the title box at the top of the webpage. That's pretty useful when you want to send something to a number of people. Just remember to tell them that if the URL goes to a second line, they may have to copy the part on the second line.

If you are searching for a story, there is a little Google search box in the first column of the web page. If that doesn't work, just use regular Google.

Corrected 06-27-2012 8:06pm


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Top stories for December 2011

Sunday, January 1, 2012

In case you missed them or would like to read them again, here are the top five stories for December 2011, as viewed on our webpage.

Sorry, EMail Subscribers, your views aren't counted unless you click through to the webpage. This does skew the count toward those outside of Shoreline-LFP, who click through from our partner sites on Seattle Times and KING 5 or find us on Google and other search engines.

So if you have a favorite story you'd like to see hit the top five for January 2012, just get a thousand of your friends to click the story title. Now you know.








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Pepe the dog: stolen, found, and lost and FOUND in Shoreline

Friday, December 9, 2011

Pepe is back home in Ballard

Pepe's information was posted on December 3, 2011. His owner Danielle wrote to tell us that he had been found and agreed to share her story with us.

By Danielle Klinkhamer

Most of you already know that one night at the end of July our beloved little dog Pepe went missing. We had gone out for the evening on bicycles and learned later that there was a fireworks show in our neighborhood. We will never know exactly what happened, but guessed that one of these two things prompted Pepe to bolt from the house and he found a way out of the yard.

We tried most everything to recover him, but nothing ever came of it. We grieved extra because there was no closure. Not only did he never show up alive, but his remains were never found either. He was microchipped and had a tag with our number on it We came to assume the worst -- he was either with someone who wasn't returning him or he had met a lesser fate and got hit by a car or scarfed by neighborhood raccoons.

After 4 months we finally resolved to move on. We started to look into new dogs.

Then last Wednesday we got a phone call from a restricted number. The guy said he might have our dog. He had bought him outside of a grocery store in our neighborhood from some guy who sold him as a Min Pin puppy claiming he had just sold his littermate to someone else. On getting home the guy who bought him was surprised the dog had a collar with a number on it. He called the number. We quickly agreed to meet him. He named a specific location in Shoreline. We hurried there. He never showed up.

We knew then that Pepe was likely alive. Our hope came back. We hoped the guy would call back the next day, but he didn't. So we started to hunt. We went back to the Shoreline neighborhood where he told us to meet him. It seemed reasonable that he had lived nearby. We spied into back yards and through windows hoping we would find Pepe.

We knew we had to try to communicate with the caller, the old fashioned way. We made a pile of fliers with a good picture of Pepe, the statement that he was stolen, a cash reward offered and no questions asked -- we just wanted him back.

With help from friends we plastered the neighborhood around the meet spot and alerted the Shoreline Area News. We returned home feeling we had done all we could. All of you wished us luck and crossed your fingers.

We headed out to meet friends that night, sat at the pub and about when our beer arrived, the phone rang.

It was the guy, he had our dog. This time he called from his cell phone, told us where he lived and told us we could come get Pepe right then.

We did. The guy told us that he had become leery that he was being scammed after buying a dog which had a collar on it. He assumed that we were in cahoots with the guy that sold him the dog and it was a scam to re-sell the dog then guilt the buyer into returning it. That is why he didn't show up the first time. Then he saw our fliers in his nighborhood and the picture of Peps with the original collar on it. We paid him the reward. We got our beloved dog back, via perseverence and a good old fashioned grass-roots effort.

Pepe is OK, he seems healthy, maybe a little underexercised, but otherwise his same old hopelessly optimistic self. You have never seen a happier pup then when we turned the corner to our neighborhood and brought him home. And you have never seen happier dog owners than us right now. We are adoringly watching Pepe sleep in his home ... and cuddle with his new housemate Tika ... another Manchester Terrier.



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Happy Thanksgiving - we are thankful for you

Thursday, November 24, 2011

We at the Shoreline Area News hope that you are spending this Thanksgiving Day with friends and family, enjoying the day. 

Thank you for reading us, for letting your friends and neighbors know about us, and for sending us articles, photos, and story tips.  We are very thankful for your support.

Roasted Tofurky by Jacob Metcalf

Pictured is a roasted tofurky - a Thanksgiving main dish for vegans and vegetarians, made from flavored and molded tofu, stuffed with dressing.


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Top stories for October 2011

Monday, October 31, 2011







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Dirty politics in Lake Forest Park

Friday, October 28, 2011


Lake Forest Park has some lively elections and strong opinions going on right now, which will probably continue beyond the elections.  However opponents are, for the large part, stating their positions openly, and staying on issues and qualifications.

Somebody has crossed the line.

Some residents of LFP received an anonymous mailing this week.  It came in a plain envelope, first class, hand addressed, with no return address.

Inside was a single sheet with a photo-shopped copy of the main webpage of the Shoreline Area News.  In the frame where real stories appear, the perpetrator had inserted two anonymous comments which they had posted on a story about one of the candidates.

Anyone can post any comment on any story in the SAN.  These comments do not appear on the main webpage as stories, nor do they go out on the email subscriptions, Facebook, Twitter, or the various RSS feeds.  You have to be on the particular story on the webpage and click the comments link.

We monitor the comments.  Comments like the ones in the flyer, which attack people on a personal level, using insults, vague innuendos, guilt by association, and unsupported accusations, are removed as soon as we see them.

Anyone is welcome to copy, forward, or link to our stories, as long as they credit us and provide the link to the story or to the website.

However, we do not appreciate being used as part of a dirty attack campaign.


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Most popular stories in July 2011

Monday, August 1, 2011

Did you miss these popular stories in the Shoreline Area News?  Here's a second chance:















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Top five stories for June 2011

Friday, July 1, 2011

These were the most read stories for the month of June 2011.


Lake Forest Park Police Blotter May 30 to June 5, ... 
June 13


Copper thieves are now climbing poles - sheriff's ...
June 12


Micro earthquake 18 miles below Shoreline
June 5


Goat Days in Lake Forest Park, June 18-22
June 3


Bomber fly-by over the Shoreline Arts Festival
June 29


The Secret Gardens of Lake Forest Park: a preview
June 17

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Anonymous comments

Tuesday, June 7, 2011

The partners of the ShorelineAreaNews had a discussion about the anonymous comments on the articles. Our news partner, MyEdmondsNews, recently changed their policy and now only accepts signed comments.

We decided that we really do not have a problem with anonymous comments.

However, when there is a hot topic with a lot of comments, it can get very confusing, especially when people are trying to respond to each other.

So we are asking that those who wish to be anonymous take a moment and pick a name or nickname for their comments. Here's how you do it:

Underneath the comment box, there is a drop down list called "Comment As". The default says "Anonymous". If you click the down arrow, at the bottom it says Name/URL. If you select that, it will bring up a box where you can type in a name or nickname.

People have been quite creative in the past, addressing each other as Anonymous 5:35 for the time the comment was posted, but even that method falls apart with multiple comments.

Thanks in advance for your cooperation. We do want to hear what you have to say.

Diane Hettrick (DKH)
Editor@ShorelineAreaNews.com

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Top five stories for May 2011

Friday, June 3, 2011

Here are the top five stories in the ShorelineAreaNews in May 2011:


May 17, 2011
May 22, 2011

May 16, 2011

May 23, 2011

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Top five stories in April

Sunday, May 1, 2011

Apr 12, 2011










Apr 3, 2011










Apr 27, 2011










Apr 2, 2011










Apr 5, 2011

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Most read stories this month

Sunday, April 3, 2011

The most read stories in the ShorelineAreaNews this month:

Mar 29, 2011










Mar 30, 2011










Mar 23, 2011










Mar 16, 2011










Mar 21, 2011










Mar 14, 2011










Mar 27, 2011

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New Year's Resolutions

Saturday, January 1, 2011

Here you go - we've started your list for you:
  1. Quit smoking.
  2. Lose weight.
  3. Eat better.
  4. Exercise more.
  5. Get organized.
Feel free to add your own.  

We're given you a start on #4 with the article on locals gyms and we'll try to provide information to help with the rest of your resolutions.

Here's an easy one to add to the list (warning: shameless self-promotion follows):
  • Tell all your Shoreline and Lake Forest Park friends about the ShorelineAreaNews

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ShorelineAreaNews at Lake Forest Park

Sunday, December 19, 2010

Photo by Sonya Reasor
Diane Hettrick, Editor, and Sonya Reasor, Art Director, spent the day at the LFP Farmers' Market on Sunday, December 19, greeting friends, readers, and contributors to the SAN. 

In the photo: Dennis and Gidget Terpstra with Diane.

Besides the farmers' market at the upper level, the lower level was filled with artisans.



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Tuesday's email edition

Wednesday, November 10, 2010

For reasons we will never know, FeedBurner, the software that collects and distributes the email edition of the SAN, completely gummed up the Tuesday email edition for some email clients. It was fine in GMail, except for rearranging the swimming photos, but for Earthlink, Hotmail, and Yahoo, to name a few, articles were missing text and photos, photos were jumbled or missing. Centered text disappeared.  Entire articles disappeared with only white space left behind. Text did not wrap in some articles. And then some articles were exactly as posted.

To read the articles, you can go to the main webpage at http://ShorelineAreaNews.com.  Or you can click on the links below to go to a particular article.
It was a large edition, with 17 articles and a lot of great information about community events.

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Wanted: sports reports

Wednesday, September 8, 2010

There are four high schools in our area: Shorecrest, Shorewood, Shoreline Christian, and King's High School. They all have sports programs, with major and minor sports.

We can't be there for all those events and games, but we would still like to bring the information to the community via the SAN.



If you are at any of the games or events, please consider sending us information. It can be as simple as the school, game, and score. If you have a camera and can send a picture, so much the better. It would be good to tell us who's in the picture and where.



If you can commit to covering one sport for one school, that would be great. If you just attend a few games but will send us information, that's great too.



Send your information to Tips@ShorelineAreaNews.com

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Guidelines for Letters to the Editor

Sunday, August 1, 2010

The Shoreline Area News welcomes Letters to the Editor.

These are the guidelines.

Letters should be fewer than 300 words.

Letters, unlike Comments, may not be submitted or published anonymously. The writers need to include their names, addresses, and phone numbers. However, only the name and city of residence will be published.

We will publish one letter per person per topic per month.

We expect civility.

We will allow ONE reply to anyone who has been challenged personally.

Letters should be sent to Editor@ShorelineAreaNews.com . Please be very clear whether your comments are intended for publication or are private communications to us.

All letters will appear on our website the day they are posted; in the emailed digest the following day; and permanently under the link Letters to the Editor in the right column of the website.

Comments posted to individual letters and comments on Facebook do not fall under these guidelines.

We appreciate your informed participation.

The Editorial Team

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Did you miss Tuesday's email digest?

Wednesday, July 28, 2010

Feedburner, the program which handles the email subscriptions, hiccuped on Tuesday. Some subscribers received the email digest late, some didn't receive it at all, and some of you may have received a truncated version.


Here's what you might have missed:
If you want to set up an email subscription, the information is here.


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Subscribe to Shoreline Area News via Email

Friday, June 11, 2010

Photo by fotodawg
Receive a day's worth of Shoreline Area News articles in your inbox every day by using the form below to subscribe. 

This is an automatic service provided by Follow.it, and your email address will not be shared.





Enter your email address to get new posts in a daily email digest:

After you enter your email address, you will begin to receive the digests the next day.

Put this address in your contacts / address book to avoid your spam folder: hi@follow.it

At some point you will need to confirm your subscription. It may be an immediate email with a link to click.

  • Or it may be a header on the digest which reminds you to confirm.
  • If you click to confirm and receive a message from follow.it that says "Pick your Feed" select the first box that says "website" and enter Shoreline Area News.
  • Ignore #2 filters and #3 output - just click the green button to move to the next screen.

Email digests are delivered to your Inbox daily, with all the stories published the previous 24 hours.

To unsubscribe (unfollow), in the daily email, top right, click on the gray link that says "unfollow."

If you change your email address
  • subscribe with the new address, 
  • then unsubscribe (unfollow) the old address.
  • subscribe and confirm at the time of day you wish to receive the digest

If you have difficulty with this process, email and we'll assist you.



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Contact us!

Monday, March 8, 2010

There are several ways you can contact us or follow us here at Shoreline Area News.

To send a letter to the editor, email Editor@ShorelineAreaNews.com.

To send in a news tip, email tips@shorelineareanews.com.

If you have a story, an event, an announcement, a press release, or anything you want published, email Editor@ShorelineAreaNews.com

You can follow us on Twitter, where our articles are republished as tweets, here: http://twitter.com/Shorelinearea.

You can connect with us on Facebook here: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Shoreline-Area-News/269176201439.  Be sure to "Like" and "Follow" us on Facebook.

And you can sign up to receive our articles in your email inbox here: http://www.shorelineareanews.com/2010/01/subscribe-to-shoreline-area-news-via.html

We look forward to your feedback and comments!

Editor: Diane Hettrick
Assistant Editor: Carl Dinse
Photographers: Steven H. Robinson, Mike Remarcke, Wayne Pridemore, Lee Lageschulte
Cartoonist: Whitney Potter

Many community members are regular contributors.

We welcome photos and articles for consideration.

At this time, we do not take advertisements, but will add you to a notification list for the future. We will be happy to publish one introductory article for each business.

If you have an event that takes place in Shoreline or Lake Forest Park, we will publish information about it for free.

Send all submissions to: Editor@ShorelineAreaNews.com

Articles should be in an email or plain text (not PDF or Word). Photos and graphics in jpeg or png as attachments to an email.

We will publish your flyers but prefer formats other than PDF.



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