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.
The tremendous value of community groups like Kiwanis and Rotary clubs, neighborhood associations and PTSA’s, is not just in the service they provide, but also the sharing of ideas, the interaction, the conversation that results.
On a hot summer night in 1980 the Issaquah Valley was rocked by a series of explosions.
More than $5,000 was raised by the hungry students and friends of Discovery Elementary School at a spaghetti feed fundraiser for American Red Cross on Tuesday night.
Police have arrested a Sammamish man accused of stealing more than $20,000 from the Spartan Baseball Club, a select summer league for boys ages 8 to 13.
Principal Greg Marsh spoke to the gathering of several hundred parents and students about Molly Hightower, a graduate of Bellarmine Prep in Tacoma, part of Eastside’s community of Catholic schools around the state.
Port Blakely Communities reviewed the latest plans for development in the Highlands, addressed homeowner concerns, and introduced the company’s new president.
The arrest yesterday of an armed robbery suspect in Seattle has been linked to a Feb. 4 Issaquah bank robbery,…
With an esteemed career in Catholic education which included 15 years as the Principal of Holy Names Academy in Seattle and another decade and a half at the National Catholic Educators Association (NCEA) in Washington D.C., her post at the time, Sister Tracy wasn’t really looking for a new job.
Though as a developed society we may consider ourselves well beyond the gender-stereotypes that insist women should be homemakers, nurses or school teachers, and positions of business leadership, economic study and technical sciences are the domain of men, the truth is that we probably aren’t that far beyond it at all.
Issaquah narrowly missed a third-place team finish at Saturday’s KingCo 4A Championships at Mount Si High School.
At Beaver Lake Middle School on Friday, students were encouraged to sport the colors of their favorite team ahead of Sunday’s big game.
