In its final meeting of the school year, before adjourning until next fall, the Issaquah School District’s Boundary Review Committee reviewed public input made at three public preview sessions and made a few changes to their boundary plan.
On April 10, Scott and Charlene DePuy’s lives were shattered.
That was the day that their 17-year-old son Ryan was found dead of a presumed accidental overdose from prescription drugs.
The DePuys aren’t sure exactly what happened that day. The death certificate won’t be final until the tox screen comes back, but Ryan’s death is believed to be an accidental overdose.
The Rotary Club of Issaquah announced that it will sponsor a foreign exchange student from France for the next school year. The student will be Jean Bourdonnais, 16, of Nantes, France.
Eleven-year-old Signe Stroming from Issaquah was one of two winners in the Fourth Annual Bridging Futures Art and Essay Contest.
Her work will be seen on a billboard this June.
Sammamish police on May 29 arrested a 43-year-old Seattle man for investigation of fourth degree assault, a police report said. The man had been dating a Sammamish woman who lives in the 23500 block of Northeast 21st Street and the two broke up in April. On May 29, he showed up at the woman’s house, intoxicated and with his 5-year-old son in the car, the woman told police. She offered to drive them home for their safety, and was trying to buckle the boy into a safety seat when the man drove off, hitting her in the thigh with the car door. The man left, then returned and yelled obscenities at her and pushed her, the report said. State Patrol troopers told police that the man’s car rear-ended another vehicle a short time later on westbound Interstate 90 and did not stop, a report said.
Special Olympics softball: 6:30-8 p.m. June 6, practice starts. All skill levels welcome. Tibbets Park, 965 12th Ave. N.W., Issaquah. 425-392-5682.
Ben Griner of PerSyst Consulting and Brandon Schwendtke of R&R recently led a group in constructing a free wheelchair access ramp for Issaquah homeowner, Cinda Ainsworth. The project was one of two ramps constructed in Issaquah this year as part of the 15th annual Master Builders Care Foundation’s “Rampathon” event.
The May 17 bike drive led by the ARAS Foundation collected and prepared 925 bikes for shipment to Ghana, organizer Mary Trask said. The week before, several Bellingham residents collected and prepared 620 bikes as an offshoot of the Sammamish drive.
The Rotary Club of Issaquah announced that it will sponsor a foreign exchange student from France for the next school year. The student will be Jean Bourdonnais, 16, of Nantes, France.
Jean will attend Skyline High School, so the Rotary Club is seeking host families in that attendance area.
City may save $50,000 on Fourth; IHS Relay for Life; Public invited to ‘Rockin’ Evening;’ Museums announce summer hours; Young golfers needed for youth tournament.
The Issaquah School Board is getting ready to sell some of its bonds to make money for the construction projects at Issaquah High School and Skyline High School.
Eastside Fire & Rescue Volunteer Fireighter Kevin Refvem will retire on June 10 after 30 years in the fire service.
That and many more incidents in this week’s police blotter.
King County Prosecutors last week charged 26-year-old Redmond resident Kyle Dalan with vehicular homicide. Dalan’s vehicle crossed the center line of State Route 202 at about 3 p.m. on Monday, May 26, and collided head-on with a motorcycle ridden by 74-year-old Mark Stolle of Sammamish, according to charging papers. Stolle was thrown from the motorcycle and landed in a ditch. He sustained multiple “catastrophic” injuries to the head, torso and extremities, and died within minutes, charging documents and the King County Medical Examiner’s officials said.
The Issaquah School Board is getting ready to sell some of its bonds to make money for the construction projects at Issaquah High School and Skyline High School.
Purple and gold dominated as hundreds gathered to say goodbye to the old Issaquah High School building at the May 29 “Farewell to the Old School” celebration.
Issaquah may have a health and human services campus in the near future. After hearing from several community members and concerned citizens in a public hearing, the City Council on Monday voted to approve an amended agreement with the Talus development that would give the city more than $1 million for a health and human services campus in Issaquah, among other things.
After years of planning, public meetings and studies by various groups and commissions, the City Council on Tuesday will likely vote on the proposed Town Center Plan, which is an amendment to the city’s Comprehensive Plan.
A King County Sheriff’s deputy sits just beyond the turnstiles, beeping because someone didn’t have a key card. Behind the deputy is a chain-link cage, guarded by a fingerprint scanner. Fifty-nine security cameras are recording in the building’s eight security zones. All visitors are wearing badges. Most doors automatically shut in 30 seconds.
The King County Elections Building is a secure place. And it should be. The building, on Renton’s Southwest Grady Way, is the place where elections are managed for the state’s biggest county.
This time last year, 12-year-old Robert Heimerman’s grades and sports playing abilities were hovering around average. He got mostly Cs and ran in the back of the pack during football. Now he is getting mostly As, and has added basketball, baseball and track to his repertoire.
