I have had my experience with minus tides so I don't plan to join the throngs on the puget sound beaches next week at Seahurst park. There will be hundreds of people walking the wet sand with lanterns and flashlights.I have talked to several…MORE
Highline Times - Opinion
Highline Times 31, assorted blogs 10
Tue, 11/27/12
We have some late-breaking election results.
Actually, these are scientific poll numbers.
We toil away in the lower level of the Burien Elks building and don’t always know how the Highline Times is viewed out there in the wider…MORE
Jerry's View: Money stretched pretty far in 1930s
Tue, 11/27/12
I still look forward to Christmas even though Oregon Bank and Trust is now calling it something else and is probably not sponsoring Bank Day at grade schools anymore.
Starting in the first grade, I took my nickel or dime to school every…MORE
Jerry's View: The devil made him do it
Mon, 11/19/12
One cold winter day Dave Stamborsky and I were searching for a likely place to catch a steelhead and I convinced him we should try the Hamma Hamma on the Olympic Peninsula. This is a short and narrow little stream that flows out of the mountains…MORE
Note to young conservationists: Geezers were green, too
Mon, 11/19/12
(Editor’s Note: When you get to a certain age, you start passing emails among your peers with the central theme, “Things were so much better back then.” I don’t know who wrote the following article. But thinking about my parents, Bernadine and…MORE
Jerry's View: Adventure leads to life of service
Tue, 11/13/12
From hamburger service to hospitality queen, young Penny Jumonville had a whirlwind adventure in the summer of 1962. Penny was too young for Seafair but just right for the White Center Chamber of Commerce. They selected this counter clerk at Lou'…MORE
So much to be thankful for this Thanksgiving
Tue, 11/13/12
I don’t know if there is a way to go back –- a way to return to the simpler life. A time removed from the anger and strife of today’s world.
A day when being together with other folks, family and friends over a steaming cup of coffee and…MORE
A new puppy? Never, ever again
Mon, 11/05/12
As dog people, Mrs. Anthony and I are fully familiar with the patterns of dog ownership, having raised them together and separately since we were pups ourselves.
Once a doggy family member leaves for doggy heaven, we wait for a while and…MORE
Statement against N.P. Prop. 1: Normandy Park levy lid lift is small plug in sinking financial ship
Mon, 10/29/12
By Stacia Jenkins Normandy Park CouncilmemberSPECIAL TO THE HIGHLINE TIMES
(Editor’s Note: A statement supporting Normandy Park’s property tax levy lid lift (Proposition 1) was published in the Oct. 26 print issue. It is also online at www…MORE
There’s help out there for messy people
Mon, 10/29/12
I don’t believe much in spooks or Halloween bad tricks that people say happen if we don’t pass out treats. Yet, for sometime now there’s strange stuff going on in my closets and file cabinets.
Yes sir-ree – every time I look the other way…MORE