Issaquah may have a health and human services campus in the near future. After hearing from several community members and concerned citizens in a public hearing, the City Council on Monday voted to approve an amended agreement with the Talus development that would give the city more than $1 million for a health and human services campus in Issaquah, among other things.
After years of planning, public meetings and studies by various groups and commissions, the City Council on Tuesday will likely vote on the proposed Town Center Plan, which is an amendment to the city’s Comprehensive Plan.
A King County Sheriff’s deputy sits just beyond the turnstiles, beeping because someone didn’t have a key card. Behind the deputy is a chain-link cage, guarded by a fingerprint scanner. Fifty-nine security cameras are recording in the building’s eight security zones. All visitors are wearing badges. Most doors automatically shut in 30 seconds.
The King County Elections Building is a secure place. And it should be. The building, on Renton’s Southwest Grady Way, is the place where elections are managed for the state’s biggest county.
The first week of June is “tomato time.” It is also the first week to think about setting pepper and other heat-loving plants out into the garden.
When Manoj Gupta and his wife Vinaya Kulkarni purchased their home at 103 245th Place S.E. in 2003, they were careful.
This time last year, 12-year-old Robert Heimerman’s grades and sports playing abilities were hovering around average. He got mostly Cs and ran in the back of the pack during football. Now he is getting mostly As, and has added basketball, baseball and track to his repertoire.
Thousands of mortar boards will be tossed into the air across Washington this June; a time-honored sign that our high school seniors have finally graduated.
Their old team might be in the dumps, but that didn’t stop former Mariners Jeff Nelson and Jay Buhner from smiling as they signed autographs at a Children’s Hospital fundraising event at the Issaquah Costco last week.
Hydroplanes, hot rods and hogs will converge next weekend at the Tastin’ n Racin’ festival at Lake Sammamish State Park.
I wanted to offer a few comments on the tree issue as both a homeowner and a landscape designer. I…
They may have wanted more, but when it was said and done the Issaquah baseball team was all smiles Saturday after defeating Meadowdale 7-2 for third place in the class 3A state tournament at Safeco Field.
The challenge might have seemed insurmountable to some, but not the Eastlake fastpitch team.
A 74-year-old Sammamish man died Monday after the motorcycle he was riding was hit by a car that crossed the center line on State Route 202 just west of Fall City, according to Washington State Patrol troopers.
Friends of Youth is sponsoring two Challenge Day events this summer for the greater Sammamish community.
Featured on Oprah, Challenge Day is designed to help shift peer pressure to peer support, increase self-esteem and limit the acceptance of violence, isolation and teasing.
The YMCA will not build a new facility in Sammamish, officials announced Wednesday.
Officials with the YMCA and the city had been in discussions since last year about a potential public-private partnership.
The Sammamish Family YMCA operates most of its programs out of leased space at the City Church.
A diverse group gathers once a month in Sammamish to talk about what’s best for kids and how to work better together on behalf of children on the Plateau.
With members representing PTA groups, the police, the city and more, the Greater Plateau Tri-Awareness group was founded in 1996 to share information and ideas.
I helped a friend and his wife load their stuff into a big U-Haul some days ago. They were moving to southern California. Some people think a move from this part of the world to that part is sort of like trading a gentle scalp massage for a whack on the head with a garden rake. That’s a bit of an exaggeration. A small shovel would be more like it.
Since the Sammamish Plateau Water and Sewer District began fluoridating our water in 2005, new scientific information has become available regarding health concerns about fluoride. Along with several others, I spoke to the District’s commissioners at their May 19 meeting to highlight some of these developments, referencing parts of the January article in Scientific American, “Second Thoughts about Fluoride.”
