Highline Times - Features

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

by Rob Clay and Sharon BurkhartEditor's note: This is part one of a story about historic Ambaum Boulevard, the main road that connects Burien to White Center and West Seattle. Ambaum Boulevard wasn't always a boulevard and certainly not paved…MORE

By Chef Jeremy McLachlan

In a perfect world, the Pacific Northwest sun would allow me to eat local produce year-round, but unfortunately it does not. Although I vary my eating habits seasonally to take advantage of the freshest local…MORE

By Tim Clifford

Few songs are as instantly recognizable and steeped in varying iconography as Steppenwolf’s 1968 hit “Born to be Wild”. So when Glen Bui, the guitarist for the band Magic Carpet Ride, says that they have recorded a new and…MORE

Natalia Fialkoff was strolling in Olde Burien one day last week with Bajia, a one-year-old red poodle. Natalia has lived in Burien since 2002. She is an intern for Seattle Public Schools.

MON–FRI• AUGUST 4–8 • 9AM–12PM • $120LOCATION: DES MOINES FIELD HOUSE (YOUTH AGES 8–12 YEARS)

JOSEPH SUPANG, AN ALUMNI OF THE SEATTLE UNIVERSITY MEN’S SOCCER TEAM, WILL HOST A SOCCER CAMP IN DES MOINES! HE HOLDS A MASTERS DEGREE IN SPORTS…MORE

By Eric Mathison

That’s a tough reputation to keep up, especially for 40 years. But that is what the congregation of Highline Christian Church in Burien remembers about Nancy Metzenberg. She just retired this month as the church’s pianist/…MORE

by Scott Anthony It's funny how a person's outlook can change over time. There was a time for myself, as a kid particularly, when the most fun I had was putting firecrackers in tin cans to see how high they might go when I lit the fuse. Even when…MORE

By Kathryn Hilger Kingen

If I were to consider all the foods we have to choose from and make one of them my very best food friend, it would have to be Salmon. By far it is the most interesting, fun, versatile, hard-working and good-for-us…MORE