Westside Story – A Train Ride
Story & Photo – Joseph Boyle I can’t believe it. It seems like just yesterday when I started my career with the Pierce County Sheriff’s Department. On Friday, March 29, 2013 at 4:30 pm I walked...
View ArticleWestside Story – Retirement Week 1
Story – Joseph Boyle It has been one week since I started my new life serving our community as a retired guy. Someone has to do this important work. I am doing my part by hanging out at Starbucks...
View ArticleWestside Story – Financial House
Story & Photo – Joseph Boyle This article is about keeping your financial house in good order. When you retire, please, please, please take a good long look at your retirement plan settlement...
View ArticleWestside Story – Lakewold Gardens Designer Showhouse
Story & Photos – Joseph Boyle This past Sunday, I had the opportunity to visit Lakewold Gardens on the occasion of their Designer Showhouse, which runs April 3 – 21, 2013. Lakewold, managed by...
View ArticleWestside Story – North Bend Starbucks Goes Dark
Photo & Story – Joseph Boyle On this past Sunday, May 5, 2013, I fired up my Harley Road King and headed down the road to meet up with my 1950 first grade school buddy, Drew. If you remember, it...
View ArticleWestside Story – Highest & Best Use
Photo & Story – Joseph Boyle About 5 years ago, we built what we refer to as our garden house. We kept putting stuff inside to store out of the weather, but we never took anything out to be...
View ArticleWestside Story – Evening With Art
Story & Photos – Joseph Boyle My title, “Evening With Art”, is a little confusing to me. I thought to myself, “Evening With Art?”, as I read my title the day after writing it. Then it happened....
View ArticleWestside Story – Investigative Report
Story & Photo – Joseph Boyle Since 2010 when I joined Publisher Ben Sclair’s effort related to publishing The Suburban Times, it became quickly apparent that you, our valued readers, are drawn to...
View ArticleWestside Story – The Accused
Story & Photo – Joseph Boyle Most of you are probably familiar with author, John Grisham. He has written over 20 best selling novels, one work of non-fiction and a collection of stories....
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Westside Story – Harleys & Harmonicas
Story & Photo – Joseph Boyle After retiring on April Fools Day, I fired up my 2003 Harley Davidson Road King motorcycle and down the road I went. Check out the photo of the hat I custom ordered...
View ArticleWestside Story – International Relations
Photo & Story – Joseph Boyle I am on the backside of my first long distance motorcycle ride since having retired on April Fool’s Day, 2013. I left on May 15, 2013, with a full tank of gas and my...
View ArticleWestside Story – Dolce
Story & Photo – Joseph Boyle We live in a really big country. The USA is huge. I like using the word “huge”. My 3 year old grandson reacquainted me with the word huge when he said, “Papa Joe,...
View ArticleWestside Story – The Suburban Times Roving Traffic Cam
Story & Video – Joseph Boyle While he has never actually told me this, I think one of the reasons Publisher Ben Sclair keeps me around The Suburban Times is because he recognizes that I am a...
View ArticleWestside Story – Are People Dense?
Story & Photo – Joseph Boyle Recently after an 11 day layover in Milford, Delaware, I fired up my Harley and headed north towards Boston to visit my nephew, Paul Joseph, who was named after his...
View ArticleWestside Story – Lost & Found
Story & Photo – Joseph Boyle We call this guy I know, whose real name is Jon George, the “Looker”. He does not subscribe to the idea, “Finder’s Keeper’s, Loser’s Weeper’s”. Here is the “Looker’s”...
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Westside Story – Summer School Zone
Story & Photo – Joseph Boyle Please be careful of two things: Summer School is in session. Clover Park School District is holding classes from July 15 through Aug. 7. July 2, 2013, through July...
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Westside Story – The Tail Of The Dragon
Photos & Story – Joseph Boyle This past May, I survived “The Tail Of The Dragon”. US 129, internationally known as “The Tail Of The Dragon”, is located in the Great Smoky Mountains. It is a...
View ArticleWestside Story – School Failure
Story & Photo – Joseph Boyle While I am not a language arts expert and realize my use of English is not perfect, I am not responsible for teaching our young people English. Clover Park Schools, on...
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Westside Story – Abe’s BBQ
Story & Photos – Joseph Boyle This past May, during my motorcycle trip to Clarksdale, Mississippi, my pal Drew’s wife, Patricia, said, “Hey, I have an idea. You two “Wild Hog” motorcycle riders...
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Westside Story – Blue Ridge Parkway
Photo & Story – Joseph Boyle Bucket LIst – Ride The Blue Ridge Parkway. I did it. The Parkway runs for about 469 miles up on the crests of the southern Appalachians linking two national parks –...
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