PHOTOS: Final Day Of Burien’s Strawberry & Arts Festival

Despite weather that seemingly went through all four seasons within seven hours, the final day of the 2009 Burien Strawberry & Arts Festival proved to be a popular diversion, and here’s a slideshow... [Read more]

PHOTOS: Scenes From Sunday’s Father’s Day Classic Car Show

Burien’s annual Father’s Day Car Show filled the streets of downtown B-Town with enough classic cars to satisfy even the finickiest Dad, and here’s a slideshow by Photographer Michael... [Read more]

Photos & Results Of Sunday’s 3rd Annual Burien 5K Race

Click to View Michael Brunk’s Photo Slideshow The 3rd annual 5K and 1K Races were held Sunday morning (June 21st) with a start/finish at the Burien Interim Art Space, and here are the top 20 runners... [Read more]

“Where We Live Now: Why Burien?” Featuring Thomas Sieverts, Is Thurs., 7/2

Our cities surprise and confound us by scrambling the categories we use to plan and understand them. At once dense and sprawling, crowded and empty, urban but centerless, dynamic and stalled, the landscape... [Read more]

BTB Reader Report: Rollover Accident At SW 128th & 4th So.

Saturday night (6/20) around 6:15pm, BTB Reader John Montoya reports that there was a rollover accident at the intersection of SW 128th & 4th Ave South between a silver Honda vehicle and a black SUV... [Read more]

PHOTOS: Day #1 Of Burien’s Strawberry & Arts Festival

Day #1 of the 2009 Burien Strawberry & Arts Festival was a smashing success despite overcast skies, with a generous crowd that enjoyed free entertainment, from live music to a packed skateboard competition,... [Read more]

VIDEO: Day #1 At Burien Strawberry & Arts Festival

Here’s our first video from Day #1 from the 2009 Burien Strawberry & Arts Festival, produced by our video production crew of Mark Neuman and Bart Bryan, in a segment we call “Whaddaya Think?”: swfobject.embedSWF("http://www.youtube.com/v/ZV0xlirlWXA&color1=0x234900&color2=0x4E9E00&rel=0&fs=1&showsearch=0&showinfo=0",... [Read more]

Shiver Your Way Into Summer Solstice Tonight At 10:45pm

Summer officially begins tonight (Sat. June 20th) at 10:45pm PDT, with Sunday considered the “first day of summer” as well as the longest day and shortest night of the year. Of course, it’d... [Read more]

REVIEW: 5 Restaurants Will Make You Say “What The Phở?”

by Gina Bourdage Long has been the debate over Phở – who has the most authentic, largest variety, what do you do with the dish of stuff on the side and not to mention how the heck do you pronounce... [Read more]

Here’s Saturday’s Strawberry Fest Sked + Prize Update

Burien’s annual Strawberry & Arts Festival is this weekend (rain or shine), and it’s gonna be chock-full of live music, arts, dance, food vendors, kid’s activities, a skate competition and more, as well as over $2,100 worth of local prize giveaways (scroll down to see the latest list) at The B-Town Blog’s booth!

We invite everyone to drop by our booth which will be located near the Skate Park, fill out an entry form and enter to win one of 38 great local prizes from our Advertisers and various Burien businesses.

Here’s Saturday’s schedule…

Shorewood Park Cleanup Is Saturday From 10am-Noon

This month’s Shorewood cleanup event is scheduled at Shorewood Park on Saturday, June 20th from 10am – 12 pm.

Please just show up if you’re interested – bring pruners and gloves if you have them…

Highline School District Offering Free Meals All Summer

The Highline School District will be offering up free meals all summer long, including both breakfast and lunch at 13 different locations, most beginning on Monday, July 6th.

The district has been offering free summer meals for at least the last ten years, and the USDA-funded program has expanded significantly to include community sites as well as schools…

Goat Hill Residents Motivate City Into Action Over Speeding

This map highlights the Goat Hill neighborhood where residents are upset about speeding cars.

by Ralph Nichols

Burien city officials recently decided on a combination of solutions designed to alleviate safety concerns of local residents by mitigating speeding through the Goat Hill neighborhood over the ridge west of Ambaum Boulevard at SW 130th Street.

Goat Hill residents have complained for over a year about motorists speeding along the corridor that, heading west, follows SW 130th as it curves into 16th Avenue SW to SW 131st Street, then goes to Shorewood Drive where it continues in a northwesterly direction through the subdivision.

Repeated complaints and requests for action from the neighborhood led to a meeting about the speeding problem…

Burien’s Boehm’s Chocolates For Sale For $35K

Burien’s Boehm’s Chocolates is for sale for $35,000, according to this Craigslist Ad, posted Thursday, June 18th at 11:54am…

A Revealing Interview With Discover Burien’s Patty Sader

Discover Burien President Sarah Slaughter, left, and
outgoing Executive Director Patty Sader.

Story and Photo by Janet Grella

The B-Town Blog has acquired a copy of the resignation letter that Discover Burien’s (DB) Executive Director Patty Sader read to her board at their June 2nd meeting.

We sat down with Patty and DB President Sarah Slaughter (Executive Director of BTB Advertiser El Dorado West)…

Strawberry & Arts Fest Peek: In The Gallery & On The Streets

Burien’s Annual Strawberry & Arts Festival is this weekend (Sat./Sun. June 20-21st) at the area around the Burien Community Center and Dottie Harper Park (be sure to look for our booth near the... [Read more]

Public Demo Of Emergency Communications Is 6/27-28

Highline-area “Hams” will join with thousands of Amateur Radio operators who will be showing off their emergency capabilities over the weekend of June 27th and 28th.

Over the past year, the news has been full of reports of ham radio operators providing critical communications during unexpected emergencies in towns across America, including the California wildfires, winter storms, tornadoes and other events worldwide. During Hurricane Katrina, Amateur Radio – often called “Ham Radio” – was often the ONLY way people could communicate, and hundreds of volunteer “hams” traveled south to…

Music And Movies In The Park Begins Thursday, July 2nd

Burien’s annual free Music and Movies In The Park begins July 2nd with concerts every Thursday night and outdoor Movie Nights every Friday beginning Aug. 14th, all at Lake Burien Memorial Park, which is located at at SW 148th and 16th SW.

The lineup includes…