Highline Times - Opinion

By Charles Ganong

(Publisher's Note: I asked son-in-law Charley Ganong to give me a list of what he likes about White Center. Charley was captain of the Evergreen High football team and a graduate of Harvard. He has not addressed the…MORE

Did you ever pick a fresh tomato from the vine for immediate in-the-tummy deposit as kids, or pull a carrot from Mom's garden for instant chomping, or watch corn stalks loaded with yellow beauties while counting the days before harvest?

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I don't know what can be done to make White Center more valuable.

The City of Seattle does not want her. Burien does and this makes me question the motivation of the alliance.

The roads are okay; they have libraries, a swim pool…MORE

SLIDESHOW: Jerry Robinson took many photos illustrating his point. Click the above image to see them.

When a Burien City councilman suggested that White Center is thriving and that Burien should be supportive of annexation, he failed to…MORE

By Marion Yoshino, Des Moines Economic Development Manager

A tremendous community-wide effort came to fruition on June 30th when the Des Moines City Council voted to enact zoning changes in the downtown "Marina District," that removed…MORE

Sitting in that magnificent yellow 1933 Packard convertible car, passing familiar folks waving and hollering, "Hi, Earline," was one, great big, happy-face memory moment I will treasure.

And when you're blessed, as I was, with your…MORE

"Des Moines Rotary Club members are at it again. First they lured us into a Haunted House that scared the heck out of me. Then enticed us with a $1,000 prize at the Hole-In-One contest. Now they want us to go "Sippin' on the Dock." "What's up…MORE

Last week I toured the Burien Farmers Market for a look-see and got a bang out it.

Debra George was smiling as usual at the sizable crowd when I arrived. George runs the weekly event. The day was sunny, the vendors were busy, and there is…MORE

I think we all had a crush on some Hollywood hunk, when we were young. For the boys, it was typically the male star that they wanted to grow up to be like. For the girls, it was the male star that they wanted to grow up and marry. For me, it was…MORE

Fifty years ago Seattle Trust & Savings stood on the corner of 152nd and Ambaum Blvd. The Ding How Chinese Restaurant was three doors down, next to the Highline Times office.

My, how the town has changed. We had four grocery stores,…MORE