Bill Kombol

Lois Robertson Olson, Mrs. Olson, or Mom - she raised her family in Enumclaw and personified how good becomes…

How Tom Wolfe set the literary world ablaze and found a forever fan who tells his personal story of vanity th…

Mike Wickre died without obituary or funeral. His last post caused Bill Kombol to examine his life, friends, …

Joe Silvestri died three months shy of his 100th birthday. Born on March 4th Uncle Joe embodied his Greatest …

A Rex Reed review of The American Film Theater led a college sophomore to The Living Theater and lifelong lov…

How Cedar River Boat Racing with Bob Morris brightened spring quarter of my final year of college and helped …

Aug. 7, 2025 marks the 100th anniversary of Tony Kombol's fateful day, when he was blinded by dynamite in the…

Your vote will be counted, but it won't change the outcome of the election unless it's decided by a differenc…

Why are colleges so expensive? Because colleges & universities soak up & raise tuition rates to capture incre…

Keith Timm Jr. a one-of-a-kind friend, raised in Black Diamond and a lifelong resident. His buddy and boss, B…

Jack Kombol, the son of a coal mining father, Tony Kombol, and school teacher mother, Lulu Shircliff grew up …

Summers selling Popsicles for Cousin Dan Silvestri taught me more than just long hours in a Cushman scooter. …

A film crew setting in a Paris square that resulted in conversations about the nature of love and life, all w…

Bill Wheeler once Leaped high so every four years we set aside Feb. 29 to appreciate this Enumclaw man's good…

Junior High basketball was my last year of school sports, but that season spawned our greatest team ever. We'…

Bill Kombol moved to Lincoln City with a head full of dreams to learn that a gainful life isn't lived alone a…

Pauline Kombol bore her second son 12 months after burying her first daughter. Billy's birth was described in…

On June 13, 2023, King County Council presented Bill Kombol the Martin Luther King Distinguished Service awar…

A month in London, at a cheap workingman's boarding house while finding as much free entertainment as my 1978…

The mining of clay deposits in southeastern King County was big business from the late nineteenth century unt…

Local historian Bill Kombol votes in every election, even though he believes his ballot doesn't matter much.

Tony Kombol was born in Croatia. Lulu Shircliff grew up in Walla Walla. They met in Ravensdale, married, and …

Al Stewart's "The Last Day of June 1934" tells the story of Ernst Roem's death in Bavaria amidst the pleasure…

This story is from a diary I sporadically kept in 1983. It's a another Saturday night with friends (Bill Whee…