From left, Hunter Gordon, Bradan Lockwood, Deesha Tank and City of Redmond staff member Samantha Smith make fortune cookies at a Chinese New Year celebration at the Old Fire House Teen Center in downtown Redmond on Saturday.
Connor, Kamrin and Corbin Markus received a special surprise last Friday at Rosa Park Elementary School’s weekly assembly.
The three siblings were called to the front to tell their classmates about their father Christopher Markus, a staff sergeant for the U.S. Air Force, and their upcoming move to Germany once his tour in South Korea is completed. The youngsters discussed how their father would be returning later this month — but then came the big surprise.
Dad showed up minutes later at the Redmond school as Dad and kids embraced in front of the student body.
Are you passionate about libraries and the role the Redmond Regional Library plays in the Redmond community?
The Redmond Library Board of Trustees is seeking interested Redmond residents to volunteer for a board vacancy.
Redmond-based Friends of Youth has announced new board members:
• Jeane Buchanan, Enterprise Sales Specialist at Symantec
• Thomas Ku, Financial Consultant & Vice President at Wells Fargo Investments
• Katherine Thompson, Senior Vice President, Puget Sound Bank
• Susan Webber, President, Peak Result Coaching
• Holly Zimmerman, Director at Amazon Digital Services
The King Conservation District (KCD) has announced five candidates for the board of supervisor position in advance of the month-long, district-wide public election.
For the first time, the KCD will provide secure, online voting as an alternative to in-person balloting. Voting begins Feb. 15 and ends at 9 p.m. on March 15.
Overseeing 23 developed parks consisting of more than 1,000 acres and 17 miles of developed trails is not an easy job. Throw in eight undeveloped parks covering almost 300 acres and another nine underdeveloped trails and the task is more than a little daunting.
For Teresa Kluver, however, it’s just another day at the office as parks operations supervisor for the City of Redmond’s Parks & Recreation department.
According to a Seattle P-I article, a federal grand jury indicted Maryvone Phanhsiry, a former employee of Cartus Corp. in Bellevue, on Wednesday on charges of wire fraud and aggravated identity theft.
The Redmond Toddler Group’s annual carnival is March 19 from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m at Evergreen Junior High School at 208th Ave. N.E. in Redmond.
According to a Seattle P-I article, James Fogle, author of “Drugstore Cowboy,” pleaded guilty on Wednesday to robbing Pharmaca Integrative Pharmacy at 15840 Redmond Way.
Finding the right early education program to meet a child’s specific needs is not easy.
Mary Oemig’s son was particularly passionate and advanced in certain areas and not so much in others, so she spent a year looking at private schools, specialty schools and everything in between, but nothing seemed to work for her son, who is now 5 years old.
After 40 years as a firefighter, Tim Fuller is bidding farewell to a career he never intended to pursue.
On Monday, he retired from the Redmond Fire Department, where he had been fire chief since 2005.
If Redmond Mayor John Marchione wins his re-election bid, he will be getting an 18 percent raise — the first mayoral pay bump since 2005.
The Redmond City Council voted 7-0 to increase the mayor’s annual salary from $106,000 to $125,000, starting Jan. 1, 2012, at the council’s Tuesday night meeting at City Hall. The council also agreed to review the mayor’s salary every four years at the beginning of each election year.
The police blotter feature is both a description of a small selection of police incidents and a statistical round-up of all calls to the Redmond Police Department that are dispatched to on-duty police officers. The Redmond Reporter Police Blotter is not intended to be representative of all police calls originating in Redmond, which gets more than 500 calls (emergency and non-emergency) per week.
The Goddard School at 10611 NE Redmond Ridge Drive in Redmond will host the Goddard Community Games on Feb. 5 from 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
The City of Redmond has narrowed its field of 80 fire chief applicants down to four and the new chief could start sometime in May, according to Lori Brown, the city’s human resources program manager.
Students feel cramped and they need more space. That is the message many Redmond High School (RHS) students are echoing throughout the community as the voting deadline for the Lake Washington School District (LWSD) levy approaches.
Northwest parenting resource ParentMap’s annual parent lecture series will include a stop in Redmond.
The series, which begins March 2 at Washington Cathedral at 12300 Woodinville Redmond Rd. in Redmond, features a number of prominent child experts including Dr. John Gottman, who will be speaking at the Redmond lecture.
For the eighth straight year, chef/proprietor John Howie is bringing top-notch Northwest cuisine to the Super Bowl.
Howie, a longtime Redmond resident who owns Seastar Restaurant & Raw Bar and John Howie Steak in Bellevue, will be representing Washington state the night before the big game at the “Taste of the NFL,” a strolling food and wine event, held at the Fort Worth Convention Center.
Puget Sound Energy is offering public schools and other educational institutions an opportunity to bring renewable energy into the classroom – or perhaps, onto the classroom.
Today the utility opened the grant-application period for organizations seeking to install small-scale solar arrays or wind power turbines. Schools and nonprofit institutions with a renewable-energy education focus are eligible to apply for a PSE grant, which can range from $5,000 to $20,000.
Al DeYoung was unanimously re-elected president and of the Board of Commissioners for King County Hospital District No. 2 at the group’s Jan. 18 meeting at Evergreen Hospital Medical Center Jan. 18. In addition, Jeanette Greenfield was unanimously re-elected secretary.