The Redmond Fire Department was one of several departments selected by the Washington State Department of Health, Injury & Prevention to implement a Fire Safe Families Project.
This program will provide and install 100 smoke alarms, free of charge, in homes of eligible Redmond residents.
The Redmond Fire Department (RFD) is again hosting a free pancake breakfast — although donations will be accepted — for the community during the upcoming Derby Days summer festival.
A stroll through Redmond’s historic downtown with tour guide Tom Hitzroth reveals the city’s colorful past.
Nearly a century ago, guests of Redmond’s downtown district stayed under the same roof as the city undertaker, a dance hall and a soda shop.
“I sort of look at it as one-stop shopping,” Hitzroth said.
Hitzroth tells this story as he leads tour groups by the Brown Building, currently home to The Matador restaurant.
He’s filled with anecdotes about the city’s history, which he will share during the Redmond Historical Society’s remaining walking tours of old downtown on June 19 and Sept. 18.
The City of Redmond is seeking volunteers for its annual summer festival, Derby Days, Friday, July 8 and Saturday, July 9.
The Bear Creek School honored 44 graduates at Saturday’s commencement ceremony at First Presbyterian Church of Bellevue.
Sixty-nine graduates of The Overlake School in Redmond were honored at Sunday’s commencement ceremony at the school’s main gym.
Rolling his truck through ankle-deep puddles, the ranger turns toward the empty beach and passes by a 1950s picnic shelter. Mud clings to the hem of his green pants, but nothing quite sticks like the memory of his first summer at Lake Sammamish State Park.
Their interests may differ, but high school seniors Abby Gomulkiewicz, Jeffrey McNerney and Tian Kisch have all made an investment in their schools — one that is sure to pay off.
During their tenure, The Bear Creek School’s (TBCS) Gomulkiewicz and Redmond High School’s (RHS) McNerney and Kisch have all gone beyond their roles as students to leave their personal stamps on campus before saying goodbye.
Gomulkiewicz will graduate on Saturday while McNerney and Kisch will receive their diplomas on Wednesday. And then all three will venture out to make their marks in the world.
The City of Redmond is joining with King County and several other cities to commit to working together in new ways on climate change solutions.
Redmond, along with Renton and Snoqualmie, is taking a leadership role in a new push to enhance sustainability work already under way
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 two fifth-grade classrooms at Albert Einstein Elementary School were buzzing with uncommon activities late Wednesday morning with students chopping, draining, measuring and mixing various veggies, beans and spices at their desks.
Overlake Terrace, an assisted living community in Redmond, held its own Senior Prom last Friday, with the help from students at the Bellevue International School.
Artwork from local artists will be on exhibit throughout the summer at the Old Redmond Schoolhouse Community Center and Redmond Senior Center (RSC).
More than 1,000 volunteers packed meals to send to the Philippines at the Redmond Assembly of God last Friday and Saturday.
There will be five city races on the ballot this fall, but only two of them will be contested.
The Lake Washington School District’s (LWSD) board of directors voted unanimously at Monday’s meeting to approve two resolutions that will bring the district’s plans for a new secondary STEM school closer to reality.
The Sammamish Trails District of Boy Scouts of America recently announced its newest Eagle Scouts.
While the July 2010 shooting was isolated – nothing like that had happened in 20 years – it caused locals to look anew at Lake Sammamish State Park. What became obvious was years of neglect at a once rural state park, which is now seemingly out of place in an urban area.
On Thursday evening, about 100 people were at Lake Washington Post 2995 of Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) to pack and ship care packages to front-line troops in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Redmond resident P.V. (Sundar) Balakrishnan has been named recipient of the University of Washington (UW) 2011 Distinguished Teaching Award.