Highline Times - Features

A friend of mine owns a 73-inch Mitsubishi projection TV system. That’s why he’s a friend of mine---especially on Seahawks Sundays.

His system has almost everything you can imagine, including High Definition. When I was a kid, High…MORE

By Tim Robinson If you were 5'1", 97 pounds, and a boy who read comic books before schoolwork, you might understand how I became a late bloomer. In the ninth grade everyone I knew was taller than me. Even the girls. My dad was the same way. He…MORE

By Georgie Bright Kunkel A sense of humor has risen to the top of the pot, as they say. I certainly can’t remember a time when people didn’t find laughter in life. Since no one has recorded the comedy quotient of the cave people we don’t know if…MORE

Editors Note: We are pleased to announce with some pride and definite excitement that Pat Cashman has joined us as a contributing writer. Cashman's well known stints with KING TV's Almost Live, as the commercial face for Taco Time Northwest, and…MORE

Skip Dreps, neighborhood co-captain, welcomed fire and police to the neighborhood potluck in north Burien at Shorewood Elementary School Aug. 5 during National Night Out for Crime.

By Chef Jeremy McLachlan

You may consider yourself an upstanding citizen, but like the rest of us, I know that you have probably picked blackberries from somebody's else's land! Whether you are walking through your favorite park, jumping…MORE

By Kathryn Kingen

Juicy, local berries are sensational performers this time of year, putting on quite a colorful show. But what publicity hounds blackberries are! It's not enough that they are the big attention-getters in the season's…MORE

By Ann Kendall His parents told him, “You’re going to have to work hard the rest of your life, so you may as well enjoy it.” Evergreen grad Long Phan holds these words (and his family) close to this heart this summer as he interns at the White…MORE

At Des Moines Marina Thursday, July 17, people took advantage of the tail end of the hot streak to go to the marina dock. Some just went to enjoy the nice weather before it turns to what we normally knows as summer.

Some fished. And some…MORE

by Rob Clay and Sharon Burkhart* From Ohio in 1902, Jacob Ambaum arrived with his wife Mary, found work helping clear land for part of the Cedar River rail line near Renton that same year. He also helped clear the land along SW Roxbury St. up to…MORE