In light of current economic conditions, the U.S. Department of Labor’s Job Corps program and Cascades Job Corps Center are increasing their outreach to eligible prospective students.
With the Sammamish City Council scheduled to adopt new Wireless Communications Facilities (WCF) standards in the next few weeks, an ad hoc committee has formed to explore what the city can do to better regulate what such towers can look like and where they can go.
While many small businesses are in survival mode during the current economic downturn, there are still strategic decisions that can be made, which may have a positive impact on this year’s bottom line.
As the director of the Mathnasium Learning Center in Issaquah, I come in contact with frustrated parents whose children are enrolled in, and failing, Algebra classes at school.
In a definitive statement of its hopes for the future of Sammamish, the city council voted on Tuesday night not to consider an application from a group of landowners to increase the allowed commercial and residential density in one quadrant of the proposed Town Center.
A small group of local restaurateurs met at Lombardi’s Restaurant on NW Gilman Blvd. this week to discuss local market conditions, challenges and opportunities they face during the recession.
But while sales of heart-shaped boxes of confections At Boehm’s Candies remain brisk, a state deficit projected to be in the billions has legislators in Olympia preparing to dampen the ardor for chocolate with a so-called “sin tax” to fund local health departments.
Local schools have the opportunity to win up to $20,000 in funding for renewable energy systems.
Taking shelter from what many are now calling the “Great Recession”, Issaquah’s only locally-run bank, Issaquah Community Bank, is scheduled to merge with three other Puget Sound community banks on Feb. 22.
First Western Properties, the managing agent for the old Joe’s Sporting Goods store in the Town and Country Shopping Center on Northwest Gilman Boulevard, told The Reporter on Friday afternoon that Sports Authority had signed a long term lease on the 42,000-square foot building.
If you have some experience and skills in the field of business and marketing, and are keen to help the community of Sammamish, the Sammamish Farmers Market wants to hear from you.
Local business Issaquah Trophy & Awards has donated a portion of its sales for the fourth quarter of 2009 to…
Owners of Issaquah’s HighMark Medical Center announced Jan. 6 signing a lease with local medical services provider Washington Imaging Services….
A sign of the slower economic times, the Associated Press is reporting Costco Wholesale Corp.’s president and CEO, James Sinegal’s…
Anyone who has started a new business knows how tough it is to make ends meet early on.
Not daunted by the challenge or the tough economic times, two young entrepreneurs in Sammamish are putting aside profits in the name of helping out those who need assistance this holiday season.
The seven members of the Sammamish Planning Commission are fast becoming some of the most influential residents of the city.
The Swedish/Issaquah ER was recently named a 2009 Summit Award Winner by Press Ganey Associates. The ER received this award…
Accompanied by a chorus of coughs and sniffles, the winter season has arrived in the Issaquah area.
As a young boy growing up in the small town of San Cayetano, in the province of Jalisco, Mexico, Agave Restaurant owner Julian Ramos was at the very heart of a proud and famous Tequila tradition.
Costco CFO Richard Galanti is hopeful the local and worldwide market has re-adjusted and ever-more consumers will find value at the member’s warehouse club chain.
