The City of Redmond is planning to build a dirt-jump trail park for bikes, known as the Redmond Bike Park near Hartman Park. However, nearby residents, are planning to appeal the site entitlement plan.
By spring of next year, the City of Redmond’s divisive, dilapidated downtown rail corridor will begin to be transformed into an elaborate, artistic urban trai.
The number of traffic-enforcement camera citations has declined in a three-month period between February and April, Redmond police commander Shari Shovlin said at Tuesday’s city council public safety meeting.
But that is not stopping camera opponent Scott Harlan from racketing up his efforts to put the issue on the November ballot — and let the voters decide the fate of these hotly debated cameras.
Meanwhile, American Traffic Solutions (ATS), the Arizona-based company that has a traffic camera contract with Redmond and a number of other cities around the nation, has suspended one of its top employees for unethical behavior.
The bipartisan budget approved late Wednesday night by state lawmakers will slash millions of dollars from Lake Washington School District (LWSD) instructional programs over the next two years, according to district officials.
Redmond City Council member Hank Myers announced his re-election bid Tuesday afternoon, becoming the third rookie incumbent on council with plans for a second term.
Joel Wright, a longtime Microsoft Corp. acountant, is an active Mormon who supports the City of Redmond’s financial strategy and opposes traffic-enforcement cameras.
Tom Flynn, a compliance manager for Puget Sound Energy, has been active in city planning for the last five-plus years and said traffic-enforcement cameras are an effective public safety tool.
Both have declared they will run for the upcoming empty seat of the Redmond City Council Pos. 5 — the first contested city race for the fall ballot.
Danielle Lynch, the new interim executive director for the Greater Redmond Chamber of Commerce is hoping to “create a new energy within the chamber,” she said Tuesday.
The Redmond HealthPoint community clinic is slated to reopen Friday morning (May 6) after an industrial hygienist deemed the downtown office safe for staff members and patients, according to the clinic’s marketing and community relation manager Diana Olsen.
Last Friday’s early morning raging house fire just outside the Redmond city limits — where four people and two dogs escaped without injury — was caused by the spontaneous combustion of stain rags left in a bucket, according to King County fire investigators.
Redmond police arrested a 28-year-old Woodinville man who they believe was part of an armed robbery of a Grasslawn neighborhood home early Friday morning.
K-9 units from around the state sharpened their crime-fighting skills at a three-day seminar by the Washington State Police Canine Association (WSPCA). The seminar, hosted by the Redmond and Kirkland Police Departments, featured teaching sessions at Overlake Christian Church in Redmond and the La Quinta Inn in Kirkland.
Longtime Redmond resident Greyling Gentry questions why the Lake Washington School District (LWSD) wants to build a new school near what she calls ‘ticking time bombs.’
Gentry is the most vocal opponent against the district’s plans to build a new Rose Hill Junior High/Stella Schola Middle School on the existing school grounds a few hundred feet away from where a pair of nearly 50-year-old gas pipelines are buried. LWSD is proposing to build a new two-story, 125,000 square-foot school in the southwest corner of the property, south of the existing school. If approved by the City of Redmond, construction is slated to begin in 2012 and the new school will be open by September 2013, according to the plans.
One is a lanky leaper with high hopes and the other is a distance runner who wants to make his own mark on the oval. Junior Katie Lord and senior Miles Hille are the top two returners for the Redmond High girls and boys track and field teams and both are shooting for state glory.
Redmond police arrested a 29-year-old Auburn man who they believe was responsible for six different bicycle thefts on or near the Microsoft, Corp. campus over the last month.
Redmond Mayor John Marchione kicked off his re-election campaign Wednesday morning with plenty of handshakes, hugs, pats on the back and smiles, along with a vow to continue to build neighborhood connections, while keeping Redmond a financially strong city.
Redmond police officers responding to a report of a domestic violence Sunday night found a medical marijuana grow operation — one that they believe is larger than the legal limit, according to police spokesman Jim Bove.
Redmond resident Scott Harlan, with the help of initiative guru Tim Eyman, is leading a charge to put the traffic enforcement camera debate on the November ballot — and let the people decide.
Harlan, along with Nick Sherwood, Alex Rion and Eyman are the co-sponsors of Redmond Initiative No. 1 — “Let The People Decide on Red Light Cameras in Redmond” — which will ban the use of cameras to catch traffic violators and fine them unless approved by the City Council and voters.
There will be plenty of action Saturday at Redmond’s newest medical facility — both inside and out.
Evergreen Hospital Medical Center will be giving the community a preview of the new Redmond facility, which will include primary, urgent and emergency care, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. before it opens for patients on Monday (March 21).
There will be children’s activities, adult blood pressure checks, CPR lessons, and Ask the Expert booths where you can ask brief questions of a health care provider. There will be self-guided tours and light refreshments.
At the same time, medical workers from the Service Employee International Union (SEIU) Healthcare 1199 Northwest chapter, will be picketing outside of the new facility, which is located in Bella Bottega Shopping Center at 8980 161st Ave. NE.
Bruce Thomas and his group of homeless “myth busters” are returning to Redmond, pending city approval.
Thomas, a homeless man and camp advisor for Tent City 4, along with Dave Rogerson, pastor at St. Jude Catholic Church on Education Hill, filed for a temporary-use permit with the City of Redmond last week to bring the homeless encampment back to the church property for the third time in five years.
Construction of a new addition at Redmond High School (RHS), with an estimated cost of $19 million, will begin this summer and be completed by fall of 2012, when ninth-graders are added to the mix at the district’s most-populated high school.
