[ April 16, 2008; 10:00 am; ] Burien Parks and Recreation will be celebrating Arbor Day at 10am on Wednesday, April 16 at Shorewood Park, and all B-Townians are invited to attend.

The idea for Arbor Day originally came from Nebraska in 1872, when pioneer J. Sterling Morton first proposed a tree-planting holiday to be called “Arbor Day” at a meeting of the […]

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Friday night the infamous “Birthday Bus” was unveiled and lit up at the Discover Burien Dinner/Auction, and the B-Town Blog was there:

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Burien Redwood Plaza
As I was driving by the shopping plaza on the south side of 148th Ave SW I spied this sign, “Burien Redwood Plaza.” I scoured the parking lot looking to identify a nearby Redwood. No redwoods in sight.
I decided to investigate.
I fired off this email to the Burien government:
I am […]

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Highline Historical SocietyThe Highline Historical Society has a great page chock full of amazingly interesting oral history audio recordings about these here parts.
Here’s one of our favorites, of long-time B-Town resident Robert Lynch describing several fires in the area during the 1920s:
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Robert Lynch’s Oral History of Burien
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