Highline Times - Opinion

(Editor’s Note: In honor of Oct. 28’s seventh and deciding game of the World Series, we bring you a special column from our the publisher)

A few weeks ago I did a column on my boyhood dream of becoming a big leaguer.

I told about a…MORE

A lot of years back when White Center had the IGA Food Basket grocery we asked owner Ed Minnis, If he wanted to go pheasant hunting with us near White Swan about 15 minutes southwest of Yakima.

"You bet," he said.

We also took…MORE

After interviewing the local seniors for the past two years, I’ve made several discoveries –- for one thing, it’s not always easy to find those special people and its tough coming up with a believable approach.

After all, I’m a total…MORE

By Metropolitan King County Councilmembers Julia Patterson, Kathy Lambert, Jane Hague and Joe McDermott

The King County Council has worked very hard over the last four years to keep the county’s financial health from deteriorating during…MORE

When they cleared for our house on 33rd Avenue S in SeaTac’s McMicken Heights, they scraped all the topsoil off the whole block and pushed it back into open land towards Highway 99.

Hard clay makes for a great foundation base. For three…MORE

Entering the beautiful new Navos Mental Health and Wellness Center, I thought, "Boy, I bet Mom would have been amazed and very proud."

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The occasion was the open house last Thursday for the…MORE

We had recently moved into McMicken Heights in the mid 40's. I decided to join the the volunteer fire fighters. They had one shiny new engine. The new station was built on SW 170th across the street from Herron's grocery store. Third son Tim (6)…MORE

Former Governor Albert D. Rossellini died today at the age of 101. In honor of his remarkable life Robinson Newspapers publisher Jerry Robinson wants to share a column he wrote during the time the Governor was in office in the 1960's that we…MORE

I coulda been a contender.

If not for Bobby Pendergrass and Donny Kirsch.

The three of us were kids crazy about baseball when we were growing up in Portland and though they never heard of me our lives intertwined.

Please…MORE

Many years ago, my restless teenage kids said Des Moines should be named, "Dead Moines."

While it was true there were very few young folk's activities, (population was 2,000 people) local reputations do take on a life of their own.