Opinion

To be safe, how can we know when people or pets really are brewing up a hurricane force of hatred &/or mental instability?

Miss Katrina, my Shih Tzu is a social butterfly. I've gotta watch that little girl every time we're in public…MORE

By Reid Hale

(Editor's Note: Reid Hale served as editor of the Highline Times for 18 years during the 1950s-1970s.)

Those who now call Burien home, probably do not know that when Al Sneed arrived in 1951 to take charge of the…MORE

Did you ever wonder why we know so much about some things and almost nothing about other things? It all depends upon who is able to secure a research grant to find out. I know you have heard it from me before but here again it depends upon the…MORE

To be safe, how can we know when people or pets really are brewing up a hurricane force of hatred &/or mental instability?

Miss Katrina, my Shih Tzu is a social butterfly. I've gotta watch that little girl every time we're in public…MORE

For ten years I have been driving down a narrow street to our house and almost every day I have been confronted by a plug ugly little spitfire of a dog who challenges me to a duel in the sun, rain or snow.

He is standing in the road,…MORE

By Gertrude Finney(Editor's Note: These are the final two diary entries to be printed in the Times/News. Mrs. Finney died last week at the age of 100.)Diary 7 Seattle Public Library had a station in Rossner's Grocery at 16th and Barton in '24.…MORE

Open Letter to Chief Diaz

At about 10:15 a.m. on November 30th I was traveling Westbound on the West Seattle bridge and noticed a car on the Eastbound side stopped precariously in the merging triangle. The car had its emergency lights…MORE

By Michael Miller On a recent visit to the Ballard neighborhood of Seattle I was saddened to see that yet another landmark has disappeared. The Totem House, Seafood and Chowder, Family recipes since 1948, has given up the fight leaving a note on…MORE

There is an air of mystery about her that hauntingly recalls fairytale stories of a beautiful princess beckoning from the castle to her prince passing by. Perched high on a hill she is irreplaceable, one of a kind, a past haven to many, and…MORE

By Mark Davis

“Ballard is rapidly becoming a community of carpetbaggers and commuters.  More than 100 years after the first land boom in Ballard, another land boom is making affordable housing a faint but fond memory.” - quoted from Early…MORE