According to a KOMO News reader, there was a shooting Friday night around 10pm outside La Costa Mexican Restaurant, located at 206 SW 152nd Street.
No further details available yet.
Full story, with photo, can be found here.

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Courtesy our good friends at the King County Library comes this recent photo of the exterior “shell” of the brand spankin’ new library under construction at Burien Town Square:

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Some scenes from Saturday’s annual Artwalk (videos coming soon):

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Busy and beautiful day in B-Town today, and here are some of the artsy, family-style, rockin’ activites and events going on:

Kid’s Day at the Burien/Normandy Park Fire Dept. goes until 3pm with all sorts of interactive fun, educational games & food.

Young Jasmine helps wash cars at a fundraiser for the kids of Brian Storer at
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Fred Freitag, current owner of what was once the Three Tree Point Store, discovered a very interesting and historic hand-drawn map of the area in the basement of his house, which he has exclusively shared with the B-Town Blog.
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We’re at the Farmer’s Market, and in the alley behind us today are two moving vans, with sweaty people moving big things.
Upon further investigation, we discovered that BTB Advertiser John L. Scott of Burien is moving into their new offices on SW 152nd in Olde Burien.
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Photo above was taken just minutes ago outside the Elliott Bay Brewery in downtown Burien, where Blog Party 2.0 is just getting underway despite squalls and thunderstorms.
Luckily, tonight’s event is inside, where there’s a roof, walls, comfortable atmosphere and lots of great neighbors doing good for the Highline and White Center Food Banks.
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Got an email tip about coyotes being spotted in the North Hill neighborhood near 195th South and South 8th Avenue (map below), where we took this photo of a posted warning sign:

According to our BTB Tipster:

We live in North Hill.
My neighbor was out posting coyote warning  signs.
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Thursday afternoon, several unsuspecting cast members of Burien’s own Hi-Liners upcoming production of “Peter Pan” were arrrguably shocked when two authentic Seafair Pirates stormed in wearing full regalia, swords, axes, accents and costumes at their rehearsal space at Lake Burien Presbyterian Church.
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Courtesy BTB Contributing Photographer Gary Parvan comes this entertaining slideshow of photos taken at last Saturday’s “Hot August Nite” in Olde Burien:

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