When the Lake Washington Schools Foundation hosts its fourth annual “Legacy for Learning Luncheon” on May 13, the organization will highlight programs in the Lake Washington School District that are funded and supported by private donations – a trend in K-12 education that has grown to over 6,000 public school foundations across the country.
Members of the Metropolitan King County Council Monday expressed satisfaction with the heightened local monitoring and other steps being taken by Public Health in connection with the current outbreak of swine flu.
Redmond-based Family Resource Center will host its 12th annual Eastside Volunteer Fair on Saturday, May 2, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.
The Fair will be held at Crossroads Bellevue located at NE 8th and 156th Avenue NE in Bellevue. More than fifty agencies are expected to participate, including human services, housing, health, arts, education and community organizations.
Five teams from Redmond are among more than 2,000 middle school, high school and university students and mentors from around the world, who qualified for the VEX Robotics Competition World Championship, April 30-May 2 at the Dallas Convention Center.
PEACEopolis is more than a mythical municipality at Redmond Elementary School.
To learn how a real city operates, third- and fourth-grade students in Marti Burton’s classroom have elected a mayor, vice mayor, city council and other officials. They will act out the duties associated with those jobs as they create products to sell in a “city store” and donate the proceeds to the non-profit organization Pennies for Peace. (See the March 7, 2009 Redmond Reporter for more information about Pennies for Peace.)
With layoffs at Microsoft and other local businesses, counselors at Redmond High School (RHS) are seeing more and more kids dropping out of activities or sweating over how to pay for SAT, ACT or AP tests, caps and gowns, graduation party tickets and more.
Now that drivers on Education Hill have had time to experience a new travel environment along the 166 Avenue NE corridor, the city is looking for comments about the completed project.
The New Poet’s Society has announced the finalists for its second annual high school poetry contest.
Scholarship award winners will be announced at 7 p.m. Sunday, April 26 at Eastlake High School, 400 228th Ave. NE in Sammamish. The Judge’s Choice award winner will receive a $1,000 scholarship. Other scholarships in the amount of $500 will also be given.
Successful parenting is hard work, even under the best of circumstances. From potty-training a toddler to watching a young adult earn a driver’s license or a high school diploma, every milestone leads to another.
Long after they had left her John Muir Elementary classroom, many students have come back over the years just to say hello to teacher Sally Horton.
Horton – who taught in the Lake Washington School District for 22 years and most recently third grade at John Muir – passed away of breast cancer with her family at her side Wednesday, April 15. She was 60 years old.
Hiring the contractor with the lowest bid to remove an outdated popcorn ceiling ended up costing a property manager a lot of trouble and more money after neighbors complained that asbestos was spilling out into neighboring yards.
Queensryche vocalist Geoff Tate and Holly Turner of Three Rivers Winery signed bottles of Tate’s wine, “Insania” at the Redmond Whole Foods Market April 17.
Construction crews replaced worn-out bridge approach panels on westbound SR 520 from 124th Avenue NE to I-405 in Bellevue over the past weekend. Now only one weekend-long closure remains.
The Redmond High School (RHS) Mustang cheer squad will host a spaghetti feed and silent auction for the benefit of…
The State House voted 52-46 on Friday to start tolling on the State Route 520 floating bridge as early as this August to pay for its replacement.
The future looks bright for Jessie Follett, a Redmond High School sophomore who was critically injured in a car accident on March 24.
Since awakening from a coma on April 5 at Harborview Medical Center and being transferred to Seattle’s Children’s Hospital on April 16, she is making steady progress in a rehabilitation program.
The Spring Garden Fair runs from 9 a.m.-3:30 p.m. Saturday, April 25 at Redmond City Hall, 15670 NE 85th Street.
After 13 years with the Lake Washington School District (LWSD), Dr. Chip Kimball, who became Superintendent in 2007, said he’d never seen such a big turnout at a public meeting.
The city of Redmond remains financially stable during the recession and is working hard to prepare for a rapid growth spurt, especially in the downtown and Overlake areas.
Redmond took another step to finalizing its source of drinking water last week when the Lake Tapps Community Council signed…