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.
When Manoj Gupta and his wife Vinaya Kulkarni purchased their home at 103 245th Place S.E. in 2003, they were careful.
Hydroplanes, hot rods and hogs will converge next weekend at the Tastin’ n Racin’ festival at Lake Sammamish State Park.
Their old team might be in the dumps, but that didn’t stop former Mariners Jeff Nelson and Jay Buhner from smiling as they signed autographs at a Children’s Hospital fundraising event at the Issaquah Costco last week.
A 74-year-old Sammamish man died Monday after the motorcycle he was riding was hit by a car that crossed the center line on State Route 202 just west of Fall City, according to Washington State Patrol troopers.
Friends of Youth is sponsoring two Challenge Day events this summer for the greater Sammamish community.
Featured on Oprah, Challenge Day is designed to help shift peer pressure to peer support, increase self-esteem and limit the acceptance of violence, isolation and teasing.
The YMCA will not build a new facility in Sammamish, officials announced Wednesday.
Officials with the YMCA and the city had been in discussions since last year about a potential public-private partnership.
The Sammamish Family YMCA operates most of its programs out of leased space at the City Church.
A diverse group gathers once a month in Sammamish to talk about what’s best for kids and how to work better together on behalf of children on the Plateau.
With members representing PTA groups, the police, the city and more, the Greater Plateau Tri-Awareness group was founded in 1996 to share information and ideas.
The two Kent men suspected in the robbery of the El Abuelo convenience store on Front Street pleaded not guilty last week at their arraignment.
Suspicious circumstances, death threat, DUI, domestic violence
Updates from around the Issaquah area.
In order to be in accordance with their interlocal agreement with Cascade Water Alliance, the city of Issaquah will have to use more water from well No. 5 — a well that is generally not used due to its levels of arsenic and manganese, city officials said Tuesday.
When Mary Trask got a new bicycle as a Christmas surprise, she was torn about what to do with her old one.
It is often called “The Forgotten War” or “The Unknown War,” but many veterans remember it all too well.
Things may change at Liberty, then again they may not.
