The last three weeks in the life of the city of Burien have been full of both joy and sadness. Joy because we are moving forward with a new City Council and a new City Manager. Because of this there is a new feeling of openness and communication at City Hall.
Sadness because this new start has been marred by the frivolous accusation of unethical behavior against your new Mayor, Joan McGilton, and myself.
A cascade of polluting spills from the third runway project has upset local groups and officials of airport cities.
But there is little desire to return to previous legal battles with the Port of Seattle.
On. Jan.
Phyllis Byers has been elected new president of the Highline School Board.
Byers, from SeaTac, also served as board president in 2003.
The five-member board selected Matt Pina of Des Moines as vice president. He headed the board in 2004.
The two were first elected in November 1999.
Byers succeeds Tom Slattery, who joked about his term before the vote, "It was a pleasure to do it, and a pleasure not to do it next year."
After a short discussion, board members also approved a 24 percent budget increase for renovations to Olympic school .
A local teen was and forced into a car in the Westwood area, taken to Burien and beaten so badly that he ended up at Harborview getting his jaw wired shut. The victim said he was targeted because he was "dressed like a black guy." The victim and the three suspects, who remain at large, are Caucasian.
A driver passing Hiawatha Playfield Tuesday called 911 when he saw a youth waving a handgun. Officers found the suspect inside West Seattle High School, and he had what appeared to be a semi-automatic handgun sticking out of his waistband.
Real estate advisors are confident they'll be able to sell monorail properties up and down the Green Line because the market is brimming with interested buyers.
Advisors from GVA Kidder Mathews, which claims to be the largest commercial real estate firm in the Pacific Northwest, told the Seattle Monorail Project board of directors Jan.
I received a letter from Jeanne Sweeney the other day. She was formerly editor of this newspaper.
Dear Jerry,
I wonder if you have words that seem to trigger memories as I do.
When I write the word Friday I remember that in my earlier days it meant "fish day" for our Catholic family. No meat on Friday. That also meant that if my dad couldn't get fresh fish from Booth's Fish house on the waterfront, Mom would resort to canned tuna or canned salmon for the meal. She was awfully good about making something from nothing but my brother hated casseroles.
Walk by and the pulsing sea of people will catch your eye. Barefoot and free flowing - some with their eyes closed - this mass of movement miraculously dances, twirls and punches, all without running into one another. Is it sped up yoga? Aikido to music?
A special place for many of us who grew up on the Westside is now a car lot behind the Union 76 gas station at Alaska and Fauntleroy. That place was the old YMCA pool. Built in 1955, it gave us nearly 30 years of memories. Here's one of them.
Standing on the wet cement floor I strip, then put my clothes in a mesh bag. On go the trunks and I get in line. When my turn comes I hand over the bag. It's hung behind the counter and I'm given a large metal pin in exchange, the number 65 stamped on its head.
During the last year of the existence of the Seattle Monorail Project, we continually heard how outrageously expensive the idea was and, unfortunately, due to the total mismanagement of Joel Horn and Tom Weeks, there was truth in the argument.
Still, the Sound Transit opus on the other side of the city racks up charges that puts even the Horn-Weeks junk bond fiasco to shame.
Small business owners are usually too busy to take time from their busy and hectic schedules to decide on a comprehensive message to relay to their elected officials in Olympia. But last fall they did just that at two Small Business Conferences.
In November, Washington Policy Center sponsored two Small Business Conferences - one in the Tri-Cities and one in SeaTac.
