Highline Times - Opinion

I just felt I had to respond to a Highline Times web posting I read recently.

The article was about the theater and it's new owners.

I am very glad somebody is going to pick up the ball and re-establish a theater there (the Des…MORE

In case you have forgotten, hot summer days still happen here and will again. Many kids in Burien will run through sprinklers or frolic on slip and slides. One thing they will not have is a local free pool.

Normandy Park has a pool, Arbor…MORE

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Things are looking brighter in Highline after we stole Dr. Susan Enfield away from both the state’s largest district and the glittering Eastside.

I tend to be your usual reporter skeptic, but I’…MORE

“When geese fly in a “V” formation the flap of each bird’s wings create uplift for the bird immediately following. Traveling as a flock adds at least 71 percent greater flying range than if each bird flew on it’s own.

When a goose falls…MORE

For more years than I can remember, Rudy Bundas was a friend of mine.

Rudy was a talker, possibly the longest talker I knew. He often would visit Elsbeth and me at our place. Once, while out shopping, I waited with Rudy in the car while…MORE

In 1952 I accepted an offer to manage this newspaper if I could also buy it someday. I had no money.

I was a trained electrician at Boeing before a neighbor mentioned that there was a job opportunity in advertising and writing for the old…MORE

It must have 30 coats of paint.

It has changed doors and windows too many times to count. It was the former Game Collective, a medical marijuana outlet until November of last year.

In looking back, it was also a Chinese late night…MORE

Valentine’s Day will come and go, yet love stories from history, myths and legends reign eternal and likely will be told for so long as mankind sees the light of day.

Falling in love with a person is often a gamble for happiness. Falling…MORE

By Charles Ganong

Recently I was a substitute teacher in the Highline School District.

As luck, fate or karma would have it, I was often called to work at the Evergreen High campus, my alma mater. Which is weird, actually, because…MORE

(Editor’s note: Jerry Robinson first met Clay Abraham in high school in Portland in 1936. They became fast friends-- double dating and hanging out at Jantzen Beach. World War II interrupted their lives. Clay became a pilot; he lost his life over…MORE