The new Burien City Hall/King County Regional Library Building may cost $2.4 million less than anticipated earlier.
Burien Public Works Director Steve Clark told council members on Sept.
The state Public Disclosure Commission recently found two Highline-area candidates in violation of state campaign-finance laws.
Robert Hall, a candidate for SeaTac City Council, was fined $200 for failure to file the Candidate Registration Statement and a Statement of Financial Affairs within two weeks of becoming a candidate. His forms were filed Sept.
A recent administrative ruling that local governments may not "second guess" the siting of unwanted public facilities within their borders has the city of SeaTac considering amending its zoning code.
The code change relates to "essential public facilities" such as prisons or sex offender housing, which are typically difficult to site.
The Central Puget Sound Growth Management Hearings Board recently held that local governments can not revisit a siting decision made by a regional or state government body for such facilities.
The case centered around a decision t
For the past three weeks, Diane Sewell of Burien has wondered about the victims of Hurricane Katrina, whose graphic images on television display their pain and loss.
"People recovering from a disaster, even though they need the stress relief, don't have taking care of themselves at the top of their list," Sewell noted recently.
As a licensed counselor, she has many concerns about the recovery of these victims - who include members of her own family.
Sewell's daughter, Jan Horn, son-in-law Mike, and three-year-old grandson Steel, have been foremost in her mind.<
Members of the Greater Des Moines Chamber of Commerce learned last week that the local business organization may merge soon with the Southwest King County Chamber of Commerce.
Business communities in Burien, SeaTac and Tukwila already are represented by the Southwest King County Chamber.
But, Des Moines Chamber president Jane Ipsen stated, "It's all discussion" at this time.
Street lights could go out in Burien next week.
Seattle City Light has told Water District 49 that on Wednesday, Sept. 28, it will pull the plug on street lights within the district unless delinquent payments from the past three years are made by then.
Earlier this summer, City Light notified the water district that unless $100,000 in delinquent charges is paid by Sept. 1, the street lights could go dark.
Water District 49 used to charge its customers for the street lights, then paid City Light.
Strike renovation of an interim site for Aviation High School from the proposed Highline schools capital facilities bond that likely will be presented to voters in March.
Superintendent John Welch told board members in a Sept. 14 study session that a new Aviation High site must be ready for the start of classes in Sept.
A crowd of curious Burien residents turned out for a Sept.
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I am so proud of the Times/News' home city of Burien where volunteers turned the vacant Gottschalk's building into one of the biggest collection centers in the Puget Sound area for aid to victims of Hurricane Katrina.
Highline School Board vice president and city council candidate Steve Denmark, who came up with the idea, calls Burien the "small city with a big heart."
Pastor Pat Foutz of the Westside Christian Fellowship and several Burien lawmakers also spearheaded the effort.
But there were also countless unsung volunteers who did so mu
I wish to extend a sincere thanks to the folks who have been working so hard to get things ready to go to Texas to help the victims of Katrina.
Thank you to Mayor Gibb and his wife, Councilman Steven Lamphear, Councilman Jack Block Jr.
