A team of five Issaquah community volunteers, Darci Waltew, Karen McManus, Denise Smith, Benjamin Pfund, and Krish Rengasamy, won first place in the augural Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) Olympics held in Carnation on Saturday.
With construction of the Interstate 90 undercrossing adjacent to the U.S. Post Office on Gilman Boulevard getting underway last week, motorists can expect delays at night and in the early morning this week.
Most people would agree that a library is a basic necessity for a school.
But Tiger Mountain Community High School would not have one if it wasn’t for the commitment to our local students shown by the Issaquah Schools Foundation (ISF).
Due to heavy rains last week, the improvement project at the Beaver Lake off-leash dog park in Sammamish has been delayed.
A 22-year-old Sammamish man was killed early Sunday morning after losing control of his motorcycle on State Route 202.
The Lake Washington School District (LWSD) has announced it will restructure grade configurations in order to make more efficient use of building space and respond to changes in student enrollment patterns, which have seen numbers rising in Sammamish and Redmond, but declining in Kirkland.
Though the weather might be telling us a different story, we know it must be Spring because Issaquah’s famous ArtWalk is back again. This
Another locally-developed musical is turning heads at the highest level of the entertainment industry.
An apartment in Sammamish was allegedly the lure for a Craiglist scam for which a Kirkland man has found himself in trouble with the law, again.
The Redmond Penguins, a Washington State Special Olympics Swim Team, participated in the King County Regional Aquatics meet at the Weyerhaeuser King County Aquatics Center on April 17.
To celebrate National Volunteer Recognition Month, Issaquah Mayor Ava Frisinger and the Issaquah Citizen Corps (ICC) honored dozens of volunteers during a reception April 27.
A public hearing on Sammamish Town Center development regulations originally scheduled for May 18 has been rescheduled. It will now be part of the Sammamish City Council’s regular meeting on Tuesday, June 1.
Seattle Tilth will bring a wide selection of locally grown organic vegetable and herb starts to Issaquah for their annual Edible Plant Sale, 9a.m. – 2p.m., Saturday, May 22, at Pickering Barn.
The legal Blood Alcohol Content for an adult is .08 – for a person under the age of 21 it is .02.
But, as City of Sammamish Chief of Police Nate Elledge points out, the consequences for drunk driving are the same at any age.
The ROTC medal is awarded to one student, just once a year, to a young man or woman who has demonstrated a commitment to serving their community, and an understanding of patriotism and American heritage.
Last week’s In This Valley related the early history of firefighting in Issaquah, including two famous fires. In part two we learn about a third fire, and examine our local firefighting agency of today.
In 1977, Led Zepplin, at the height of their powers, stopped in Seattle on a world tour and played the Kingdome. The Seattle Seahawks was just two years old. Fans going to the newly built Kingdome to watch them play would see Steve Largent, Dave Brown and Jim Zorn. Seattle Slew won the triple crown, Dixie Lee Ray was governor, and the Eastside was little more than farmland. It would be many years before Microsoft would reshape development here – in 1977 the fledging company still had its office in Albuquerque.
And it was in 1977 that Leon Kos joined the City of Issaquah as City Administrator, and in the 33 years since then and now, much has changed.
For the Moore family, blood runs deep. So does history – the stories of where people came from, how they lived, where they settled and raised families and built new communities.
The Rotary Club of Redmond Rousers continued its support of area high schools when it announced its Student of the Month award winners for March.
The King County Sheriff’s Office is still looking for a man who allegedly attacked a woman with a Taser or stun gun on the on the popular Tiger Mountain Trail near Issaquah on Saturday, April 24.
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