The Highline Times/Des Moines News and Federal Way News began the New Year by relocating their offices.
Located in the lower level of the Burien Elks building, the new address for the Robinson Newspaper publications is 145 S. 140th St., Suite B. The building is on the southeast corner of First Avenue South and South 140th Street in Burien.
The telephone number -- 206.444.4873 -- remains the same.
Freed from the myriad responsibilities of running a city, former Burien City Manager Gary Long plans to engage in two popular hallmarks of retirement -- boating and traveling.
Long envisions owning a "weekender" boat -- something he can sail around Puget Sound.
He also wants to take two major trips a year to far-flung places around the world.
"I have a passion about travel," Long declared.
The Robinson Newspapers’ offices are moving to the Burien Elks Club building this month and it has a special significance to me.
The BPOE has held a warm spot in my heart for a long time.
As the year draws to a close
And we're reflecting back,
Let's not just remember just things
that went wrong,
There's much good -- and that's a
fact!
Think of "random kindnesses"
They happen all over town.
Often right her close to home.
Just take a look around.
Imagine my surprise reading The Wall Street Journal editorial on Dec. 22 entitled "You Can't Hear Those Rails A- Humming," written by Ted Van Dyk, a Seattle Post-Intelligencer editorial page columnist.
Mr.
I guess the people in Des Moines expect they can get something for nothing. Your article on December 7 highlighted some election results. The voters turned down the tax increase that was to increase police service, yet a newly elected council member says, “I won because of the fact that I am in favor of restoring the police to its full size.”
What taxes will he raise or services cut to increase funding for police?
Eric Winiecki trusts his son Leo. But it's his bubbly and inquisitive toddler Eva that could pose a risk to his newly finished replica of Sandro Botticelli's famous painting, "The Birth of Venus." (See photo, Page 1)
"I know it's just a matter of time before something happens to it," said Winiecki as he playfully tussled his daughter's hair during an interview recently.
Practically hidden in his 5-year-old son's bedroom in their West Seattle home, the painting stands about 6 by 8 feet, about the size of Botticelli's original, said Winiecki.
A citizen was scared after hearing someone pounding on and trying to open the front door and the gate to a rear yard. Officers responded to the scene and found a heavily intoxicated man "hunkered down" in a 2-foot gap between the caller's screen door and the interior door. On checking his ID, they discovered that he lived across the street and was simply seemed confused about his address. The man was delivered to his wife.
On Christmas morning, a 33-year-old was booked into King County Jail after he became violent when he couldn't find his debit card.
I had this great idea to make some buttermilk pancakes for Elsbeth. She always gets short shrift because her birthday is on the 23rd of December and things get pretty hectic around our house that close to Christmas.
So I bought some blueberries and put them in the fridge and told her I would fix her breakfast. I was going to serve her in bed like my friend Ken Sealander has done for 40 years - which is likely a world record in the Guinness book .
First I made the coffee. That is pretty easy.
Bad habits are, by nature, hard to kick. I usually peel mine off and throw them in a closet only to forget to lock the door. Without fail those nasty little habits come crawling back out within the week and are latching onto my ankles before I even notice they've broken out.
There are the little ones such as nail biting and forgetting to cap pens or turn off the lights.
