The 12 members of the Central Issaquah Plan Advisory Task have been entrusted with an enormous responsibility – to lay down the bold brush strokes of what the City of Issaquah should look like in the decades to come.
The Issaquah School District’s VOICE Mentor Program is looking for community volunteers to work one on one with Issaquah students.
It must be Seafair when the windows rattle, the ground shakes and the I-90 bridge closes.
Drivers are warned to expect delays for the next three weeks as the Issaquah School District creates a left-turn lane and a combined right-turn/through lane on westbound East Sunset Way at Second Avenue SE.
Everyday, thousands of people on the Eastside depend on the services of a myriad of small nonprofit agencies – church groups, public health workers, shelters, educators, counselors.
At an open house at Blakely Hall late in July, a small but interested group of community members asked City of Issaquah Major Development lead, Keith Niven, and Port Blakely chief in the Highlands, Judd Kirk, about the potential traffic and other impacts of 410 additional units in the 35 acre parcel, and 500 additional units in the existing Highlands, to areas like Park Drive NE outside Grand Ridge Elementary.
On Wednesday, July 28, Swedish representatives held a community meeting at Tibbetts Creek Manor to present a construction update, propose ideas for retail facilities in the center, and to receive feedback from residents and business leaders about what they would like to see at the new campus.
Neighborhoods throughout Issaquah celebrated National Night Out with grilled hot dogs, children’s activities and lots of laughs.
WSDOT will close all lanes of I-90 between Island Crest Way and Interstate 5 at various times from Thursday, Aug. 5 through Sunday, Aug. 8 to accommodate the Blue Angel practices and performances.
Drivers should plan ahead for overnight closures in Issaquah this week as crews finish permanent striping on the SR 900 widening project.
Teams from Issaquah, Renton, Kent, Auburn, and Federal Way turned the Tibbetts Valley Park field into a softball extravaganza on Saturday for the King County Region round of the Special Olympics. The winners in each division, which were decided late in the day, will move on to represent the county at the state level in Everett at the end of August.
Crews working for the Washington State Department of Transportation will close southbound Issaquah-Hobart Road under SR 18 starting Monday, Aug. 2, for up to 31 days.
The Seattle PI is reporting a female black bear and her two cubs were spotted foraging for food at an apartment complex in Issaquah and on a trail near the high school.
The Washington State Department of Transportation(WSDOT) will close eastbound lanes of the mainline on Interstate 90 on Saturday, July 31 and the westbound mainline on Sunday, Aug. 1.
The Issaquah Police department is hosting National Night Out on Tuesday, Aug. 3 on the steps outside City Hall from 5 to 7 p.m.
Issaquah Police have issued a citizen’s alert to all residents regarding aggressive door-to-door alarm sales representatives who have been misrepresenting who they are and which products they are selling.
U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA) has been successful in including funding in 2011 for the Senate Transportation, Housing, and Urban Development (THUD) Appropriations bill to help families in Washington state and across the country who are suffering in the current foreclosure crisis.
Police have filed the first charge stemming from the fatal shooting of two men at Lake Sammamish State Park on July 17.
Port Blakely, King County, big banks, and the City of Issaquah keep their nerve with crucial land swap laid out on the bargaining table.
The Issaquah Police Department is seeking a new design for its official patch.