“I just wanted to see how it would work,” said Ryan Wickham, talking to The Reporter about his wind turbine model. Perhaps without realizing it the fourth grade Cascade Ridge Elementary student had described just why people have for hundreds of years been drawn to what we now call science – which is really just a better understanding of our world and all the elements in it.
More than ten years ago, when Sammamish first became a city, one of their first official acts was the raise the City of Sammamish flag inside City Hall, then in a small office in the Sammamish Highlands Shopping Center.
Through the month of April, residents of Issaquah, Sammamish, Snoqualmie, Redmond and Fall City can take advantage of free recycling services being offered by Rainier Wood Recyclers.
The cities of Issaquah and Sammamish are now accepting applications for human services funding for 2011-2012.
The City of Issaquah today lowered its flags to half-staff in memory of U.S. Army Private First Class Erin L. McLyman who died March 13 of injuries she suffered during a mortar attack in Iraq.
“Science does not know its debt to imagination,” said the American poet and philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson.
The City of Issaquah – along with 16 other King County cities – is seeking proposals for human service programs…
After delaying a recommendation for about a year, the Issaquah School District (ISD) administration formally backed replacing math curriculum textbooks at their March 10 School Board meeting.
Lanes of Issaquah’s new roundabout at East Lake Sammamish Parkway and Southeast 43rd Way will remain open this weekend after…
According to officials at the City of Sammamish, there is an error in a number of the 2010 Census questionnaires sent to Sammamish residents.
Major work on Benson Road South in Renton begins this week, forcing the closure of Benson Road South every weeknight for eight weeks between Renton City Hall and Eagle Ridge Drive.
The Reporter contacted former Republican candidate for State Governor Dino Rossi on March 12 to find out more about a possible campaign for the US Senate seat.
The Bahá’í community of Sammamish will celebrate their New Year, called Naw-Ruz, at 3:30 p.m., on Sunday, March 21, at the Sammamish Library. The public is invited to join in the celebration, listen to wonderful Bahá’í music, learn more about the tradition of Naw-Ruz, and enjoy delicious Persian treats.
If you know someone who is a frequent volunteer in Issaquah, works hard to benefit the environment and the community, or promotes morality, fraternity, and mutual understanding, let the club know.
Pine Lake Covenant Church in Sammamish has plenty of opportunities to celebrate Easter with your family through gifts of service.
Winning plaudits from Washington, D.C., Issaquah homeowners will soon be receiving a friendly reminder and some blue dye in the mail as part of the city’s campaign to conserve drinking water.
Starting March 15, the “Fix-A-Leak-Week” campaign is an effort to encourage local residents and homeowners to use common-sense measures — such as taking a shorter shower or fixing a leaky toilet resevoir.
A new 7,000 square foot gymnasium, a recording studio, a teaching kitchen, and space for both seniors and teens to hang out are the main features of draft plans to turn the old Sammamish Library into a Recreation Center.
Sammamish resident Larry Larsen ought to go and get some lottery tickets.
On Jan. 13. Larsen’s heart stopped beating when he suffered a cardiac arrest. He was saved by emergency CPR administered by a team of nearby veterinarians. But it was to be just the first of four occasions over the next three days when Larsen would clinically die.
Annexing the 273 homes in the Aldarra/Montaine estates would bring in $75,000 a year for the City of Sammamish of about $75,000, according to revised figures from the city’s Finance Department.
With a Pavement Condition Index (PCI) of 71, the quality of Sammamish roads sits toward the lower end in a ranking of comparable cities, higher than Kirkland and Auburn, but below Redmond, Issaquah, Mukilteo, Newcastle and Olympia, which have PCI’s between 84 and 76.