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!Courtesy Janet Grella, Sales & Promotion Diva for this here B-Town Blog, comes these photos snapped today down at Three Tree Point, where two kitesurfers took advantage of a gorgeous […]

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Fire damage was confined to the exterior of 111-115 SW 154th.
Another fire struck Burien Monday morning at 111-115 SW 154th, about two blocks from the tragic June 29th apartment arson, and according to the Burien/Normandy Park Fire Department:

This fire was confined to the balcony and building exterior, with some smoke damage inside.
The cause of […]

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One-time sports bar “Rooty’s,” located at 209 SW 148th Street is being uprooted this week to make room for a new transit center:
The uprooted Rooty’s will be replaced by buses.
According to the King County website:

A new expanded transit center now under construction in Burien will provide bus riders with better connections, improved […]

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We’d like to take a moment to reflect and commemorate that it was exactly one month ago today that an arson fire blazed through the Tara and Jenny Marie apartment buildings in the 400 block of SW 155th Street, killing three (Edgar Omar Cisneros Velazquez, his grandfather Ramon Cisneros Sanchez and Lindy Kunimoto) and injuring […]

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Local volunteers assisted Eagle Scout Michael Wines on July 26th with his project, which involved installing a park bench and landscaping at Lake Burien School Memorial Park.
Here’s a slideshow courtesy Burien Parks:

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