Welcome to the B-Town (Burien) Blog. Please subscribe to our RSS feed, sign up for our weekly Event Newsletter, or Register to Comment on stories. Thanks!Mark Storer driving a vintage tow truck.TUKWILA – Burien Towing’s Mark and Brian Storer, killed last week when their floatplane crashed near Shelton, were honored today with a memorial service […]

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According to a story on KOMO News, a Burien woman got so frustrated with Comcast’s lack of response to their graffiti-covered fence that they called the TV station’s “problem solver” hotline.
Marilyn Grinols tried to get a nearby graffiti-covered fence repainted by Comcast, which owns it.
Grinols tried calling the cable giant, only to get the brush-off, […]

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[ August 7, 2008; 2:00 pm; ] Dan Packer, the East Pierce County Fire Chief who was tragically killed last Saturday while surveying a forest fire in Klamath National Forest in Northern California, once worked for the Burien/Normandy Park Fire Department.

Packer, 49, worked for the local fire department from 1981 through 1994, when he left to work for Bonney Lake as […]

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We’re back from our annual family vacation, fully rested yet still slightly sore from too much beach volleyball, but our fingers and brains still seem to be working.
And today’s Thursday, which can only mean one thing:
We’ll be Blogging Live from today’s Farmer’s Market, which runs from 11am-6pm (although we’ll only be here until around 2/3pm). […]

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The B-Town Blog welcomes its latest Advertiser, Fun Time Tanning, located at 13260 First Avenue South in Burien.
The new owners are sisters Laura and Alyssa Stegin.
“We were customers here for about five years,” said Laura. “Then we heard the owners were selling and my sister and I said ‘Let’s look into it.’”
They checked with their […]

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