A 36-year-old Federal Way man is being investigated for fraud after allegedly attempting to cash a “washed” check at the Sammamish branch of Wells Fargo earlier this month.
Maybe someone got a bad grade, or maybe the looming school budget cuts are stressing people out – but the Lake Washington School District was the subject of a graffiti attack in Sammamish last week.
A 53-year-old Sammamish man was lucky to avoid injury when somebody threw a rock the size of a softball through his living room window on Feb. 10.
A result of meagre resources at both the county and city level, Issaquah City Council is now weighing it’s options on how to handle Klahanie Park.
Concerned with maintaining the city’s economic vitality in the face of a severe recession, Issaquah City Council unanimously approved extending an incentive to commercial development projects in the city during a Feb. 16 meeting.
Plans to adapt to a growing student population in the Lake Washington School District (LWSD) were put on hold by voters who turned down a $234 million bond measure proposition in the Feb. 9 special election.
A host of pedestrian, bicycle and road improvements won approval at a Feb. 16 Issaquah City Council meeting.
Sammamish Police are still searching for two men who eluded capture following a car chase on the Plateau on Jan. 30.
Expect more multi-million-dollar budget cuts by the Lake Washington School District LWSD this year. But this time around, the district may be out of options for avoiding teacher layoffs, as it was able to do last year.
During the 2008 winter break from school, Eastlake High School student Matt Matula began looking around for a school club that concentrated its efforts on community service.
The tents collected by South Cove resident Susan Sullivan to help the people of Haiti following last month’s earthquake will soon be on their way to Port-Au-Prince, thanks to fellow South Cove resident and Snoqualmie Valley Rotary Club member, Bill Whitacre.
With recent changes at Pine Lake, and the city’s Beaver Lake Park Master Plan in the works, there is currently a lot of interest in how the city will manage the open spaces and parks which are a feature of the Plateau.
Beginning Feb. 15, Sammamish motorists should expect delays at the intersection of 244th Avenue SE and NE 8th Street, as storm drain work limits traffic to a single travel lane.
A new community group has formed on the Eastside to lobby for a paved pedestrian and bike trail along the old Burlington Northern Santa Fe rail line.
The crossover point refers to that moment when the city’s revenue, collected mostly from property tax, will fail to cover the expenses of running a city and providing things like police and fire service, maintained streets, sidewalks, parks and playgrounds.
Ruth Kees was a teacher, mentor and role model for those committed to pursuing the vision of a sustainable Issaquah.
Issaquah schools were handed a solid endorsement by area voters in the Feb. 9 special election, maintaining levy funding in three different measures by nearly 2 to 1 margins.
The Lake Washington School District looks to be going two-for-three in ballot measures proposed in a special February election on Tuesday. The two levies on the ballot look to be passing, but the biggest of the three measures, a $234 million bond, was failing as of Wednesday evening.
The organizers and residents of Tent City 4, the homeless persons encampment currently located at the Community Church of Issaquah on Mountain Park Blvd SW, reported this week they were overwhelmed and overjoyed by the remarkable support received from the people of Issaquah and Sammamish.
Congratulations to Skyline High School students Emily Baer, John Gerlach, Ariel Goh, Derrik Petrin and Evan Shieh, who are among the finalists in the 2010 competition for National Merit Scholarships.