Citizens in the Issaquah School District have a long history of supporting their schools. During the “Boeing Recession” of the l970s, however, school levies all over the state failed in l976 and 1977.
Issaquah was no exception. Levies then needed 60 percent to pass. Though more than 50 percent of Issaquah district’s voters voted yes, the levies failed.
Construction of “Phase 1B” of the East Lake Sammamish Parkway project will begin in April. It will widen and make seismic improvements to an existing bridge along the parkway and extend other road improvements about an eighth of a mile north of where the “Phase 1A” ended at Northeast 18th Place.
The reputation of Issaquah’s Salmon Days Festival is growing.
Intertwined with the issue of who will look after the park is the bigger issue of whether Klahanie will be annexed to Issaquah or Sammamish in the future, remain as a neighborhood of unincorporated King County, or incorporate itself to become the City of Klahanie.
Visioning long-range plans for redeveloping the city, a citizen’s panel is trying to incorporate a significant “green necklace” concept into…
The Issaquah Food and Clothing Bank is in need of a driver to pick up donations on Wednesday mornings from…
Issaquah, get ready to increase your natural Vitamin D high. Daylight Saving Time is set to begin this Sunday, March…
Washington State Department of Transportation bridge crews will perform monthly maintenance work on the State Route 520 Evergreen Point floating bridge early Thursday morning.
The SAMMI Awards of Distinction will be held this Saturday night.
A Snoqualmie man involved in a Feb. 22 vehicle rollover on Interstate 90 in Issaquah has succumbed to his injuries,…
For years since her diagnosis of terminal cancer, Tiger Mountain resident Kathy Sparks has been fighting an uncertain and losing battle to stay alive. But she’s grateful a new law – The Death With Dignity Act – will at least allow her to control when and how she dies.
Speaking publicly at a March 4 press conference at the Seattle Public Library almost a year after the law took effect, Sparks, 56, told the audience that once all other options were exhausted, the ability to control her end-of-life care gave her the ”peace of mind” she desired.
A 60-year-old Sammamish man, Daniel Kruse, died in a cabin in a remote area along the Columbia River, north of Vantage, on Sunday morning.
The City of Sammamish will hold a number of recycling, waste reduction, and hazardous waste collection programs in 2010.
The programs are a part of the city’s efforts to reduce the amount of waste going to landfills as well as to properly collect and dispose of household hazardous and moderate risk wastes.
Concerned by frequent reports that motorists were ignoring speed limits outside Discovery Elementary School on 228th Avenue, Sammamish Police will be conducting random traffic patrols in the area until the end of the school year.
Continuing a proud tradition of helping the community, the Issaquah Women’s Club is offering “Follow Your Dream” scholarships this spring…
On Saturday, March 20, Issaquah History Museums volunteer Stephen Grate will lead an interpretive hike of the Issaquah-Superior mine site.
Some people get into community service and helping others through their involvement in school programs, church and community groups, or as part of workplace programs mandated by their employers.
But for others, the instinct to help is a thing of pure instinct, a natural part of their personality that finds expression in everything they do.
Like Grace Beeman.
The Sammamish Parks and Recreation Department will hold a public meeting tonight to offer the public an opportunity to share ideas about the proposed remodeling of the old Sammamish library into a recreation center.
Drivers should plan for short delays on State Route 900 tonight, March 8.
Weather permitting, crews will alternate one-way traffic on SR 900 between Newport Way and Tibbett’s Creek bridge from 8 p.m. to 5 a.m. while they pave the highway.
Over a lunch of pizza and salad greens with the Kiwanis Club of Issaquah at Gibson Hall on Wednesday, Issaquah…
